The Politics of Self-Deprecation

A still from 30 Rock.

 

“It’s a lot easier to paint yourself as a charming, chip-guzzling sloth whose body is not your temple when there are people who would literally build temples to your body.”

I recently embraced my inner killjoy and wrote an article on the politics of self-deprecation. If you’re curious and not too affronted by the above  excerpt about Jennifer Lawrence, you are welcome to read it in full here