This really stayed with me. Thanks for writing about Saint Bettie! The way you frame Bettie not as an image but as a site of projection, play, and authenticity felt incredibly true, especially the tension between the sacred and the profane, and how threatening that kind of wholeness can be. I appreciated how you reclaimed her as an agent of herself and self-directed rather than flattening her into an icon (which she also is), and how clearly you named the ways women who embody the dark feminine are often easier to eroticize than to truly see. On a lighter note, the meme about girls cutting their bangs genuinely made me laugh. I did the same thing! It felt like such a perfect, human echo of the themes you’re naming. This felt both personal and expansive. Thank you for such a deep and thoughtful reflection.
🥹🥹🥹 aww thank you so much for your kind words! I never know how much to share but it’s my hope that in sharing my story other women can see themselves more clearly, because as you said we can both me icons and complex. ❤️I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I also loved what you said about how when women are whole it can be threatening to others! So true!
This really stayed with me. Thanks for writing about Saint Bettie! The way you frame Bettie not as an image but as a site of projection, play, and authenticity felt incredibly true, especially the tension between the sacred and the profane, and how threatening that kind of wholeness can be. I appreciated how you reclaimed her as an agent of herself and self-directed rather than flattening her into an icon (which she also is), and how clearly you named the ways women who embody the dark feminine are often easier to eroticize than to truly see. On a lighter note, the meme about girls cutting their bangs genuinely made me laugh. I did the same thing! It felt like such a perfect, human echo of the themes you’re naming. This felt both personal and expansive. Thank you for such a deep and thoughtful reflection.
🥹🥹🥹 aww thank you so much for your kind words! I never know how much to share but it’s my hope that in sharing my story other women can see themselves more clearly, because as you said we can both me icons and complex. ❤️I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I also loved what you said about how when women are whole it can be threatening to others! So true!