Karen Carpenter Part 1 with Carolyn Kendrick
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The Ways in Which Karen Is Not Doing Well
Karen Carpenter is part of this fabric that is inherently abusive in the sense that performing femininity is just brutally difficult. The more attention people pay to you, especially if it's like, apparently, has any connection to you being an attractive woman or any kind of woman., she says. You are responsible for every thought someone could have based on looking at you. Not only is it your responsibility to anticipate how they might want to harm you because of that and therefore, you know, structure your entire life because of it,. "I feel like this really perfectly describes what I have learned in my entire life since not just since puberty, but since anywhere near the run up to it"
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