Female pop subjects must manage not matching what male desire demands

Evidence

If the traditional problem for the male in pop culture has been dealing with a desire for the unattainable — for Lacan, remember, all desire is a desire for the unattainable — then the complementary difficulty for the female has been to come to terms with not being what the male wants. The Object knows that what she has does not correspond with what the subject lacks. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1036

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the asymmetry Lacan builds in: the male grapples with unattainable desire, the female with being an object that never maps onto the subject’s lack.
• XREF: connects to: Men impose contradictory demands on women’s sexuality that no conduct can satisfy — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1142; The male’s need to take and satisfy women depends on deeming them worthless — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 475; Goth women’s power comes from staging the refusal to be what male desire wants — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1036 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Goth women’s power comes from staging the refusal to be what male desire wants #expands (0.95) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1036
• Men impose contradictory demands on women’s sexuality that no conduct can satisfy #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1142
• The male’s need to take and satisfy women depends on deeming them worthless #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 475
• Romance functions as a power-achievement channel for women because agency is penalized #corroborates (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 775