Have You Heard Of The Fairytale Industrial Complex?
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Julia Austin
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An adjacent complex
The Industrial Fairytale Complex is different from but lives in the same sphere as the Cinderella Complex. The Cinderella Complex states that women are unconsciously driven to be dependent on a male figure, due to years of patriarchy and misogyny. The Industrial Fairytale Complex has women giving up some agency, too – it contains that ‘sit back and it will happen’ idea – but it incorporates a new type of passiveness, in which women do pursue men, they just pursue unavailable men. Or, they believe they’ll need to do zero personal work to attract a perfect partner.
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