# Women Are Not Dolls  ## Metadata - Author: [[Craig Drake]] - Full Title: Women Are Not Dolls - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Victoria Smith argues that modern ideas about femininity are reducing women to the status of "dolls," emphasizing superficiality over their true personhood. She highlights that both hyper-feminine trans women and sex dolls represent a troubling trend where women's identities are shaped by male desires, stripping away their complexity and humanity. This shift challenges the fundamental feminist belief that women are fully-fledged human beings, deserving of recognition and respect. - URL: https://thecritic.co.uk/women-are-not-dolls/ ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > Walter identified as leading to the creation of the living doll — pornification and the conflation of femininity and femaleness — having been reclaimed as “progressive” forces for good. At the same time, an attachment to unmodified “factory-setting” female bodies is treated as some weird second-wave feminist hang-up — a symptom of one’s failure to get with the fabulous programme of unlimited self-modification. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jy4d2x9t7r4m4kzvpmmtp5mn))