When people with stareable bodies […] enter into the public eye, when they no longer hide themselves or allow themselves to be hidden, the visual landscape enlarges. Their public presence can expand the range of bodies we expect to see and broaden the terrain where we expect to see such bodies.
[…] These encounters work to broaden the collective expectations of who can and should be seen in the public sphere and help create a richer and more diverse human community. This is what starees can show us all.
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Rosemarie Garland-Thomson in Staring: How We Look
STARE BACK. Refuse invisibility.
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1. You are wonderful.(read: smart, hot x 238423904832049320)
2. Definitely going to look into using this source in the paper I am currently writing about fat bodies being super subversive threats to the U.S. nation. Thanks!
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I always stare back.