Mediated female confession now risks titillating men instead of politically alienating them.

Evidence

Today—more than fifteen years after Riot Grrl—the rise of webcams, blogs and media-generated ‘confession culture’ presents a real challenge to those who believe that sharing personal experience is still a political act. Now one concern is that women’s mediated sharing of life experiences— whether through memoir, ‘reality’ genres, or even auto-ethnographies—is less likely to alienate men than to titillate them. Sisterhood may still induce a ‘warm feeling,’ but for some of us, it’s the wrong sort of warm. — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls, 63

Categorization

• XREF: Frames the core worry of this book (camgirl confession) and connects to the Hanisch tradition above; also echoes contemporary debates about ‘girlboss’ feminism and commodified sharing. — connects to: Internalized gendering mistaken for ethical responsibility blocks women’s resistance most stubbornly. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2190; Sexual explanations substitute for political explanations of terrorism. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1043

Broader Connections

• Sexual explanations substitute for political explanations of terrorism. #complicates (0.78) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1043
• Internalized gendering mistaken for ethical responsibility blocks women’s resistance most stubbornly. #complicates (0.72) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 2190