this is so interesting and something i've also been thinking about! especially in regards to the social media aspect of it and how normalized self-marketing has become--online, we're expected to present aestheticized and airbrushed versions of ourselves. a big, and valid, critique of this is that we're not showing our "true" selves--that everything online is fake. and in addition to being an easy consumer grab in shows/books/other forms of mass-marketed media, i think that the idea that our trauma is the truest part of us has sprung up almost as an antithesis to the fakeness of social media, but neither side is the full picture.
kudos from one survivor fan to another (black widow brigade supremacy!!)
this is so interesting and something i've also been thinking about! especially in regards to the social media aspect of it and how normalized self-marketing has become--online, we're expected to present aestheticized and airbrushed versions of ourselves. a big, and valid, critique of this is that we're not showing our "true" selves--that everything online is fake. and in addition to being an easy consumer grab in shows/books/other forms of mass-marketed media, i think that the idea that our trauma is the truest part of us has sprung up almost as an antithesis to the fakeness of social media, but neither side is the full picture.