If male self-destruction is seen as opening up meaningful questions about great existential truths—Don’s alcohol binges in “Mad Men,” Walter White’s coming to terms with his own mortality in “Breaking Bad,” female self-destruction is still perceived as self-indulgent. The female depressive is seen as self-involved and attention seeking, empty-headed and silly. Seeking meaning in sex and drugs is seen as morally weighty when a man does it, but when a women grapples with nihilism, it’s still perceived as merely acting out for male attention.
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Arielle Bernstein on Lana Del Rey
When a woman grapples with nihilism during her Nietzsche seminar, she turns to the meaningful self-destruction of Lana Del Rey, because I fucking love pop culture, damnit.
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