Xinyuan Shen
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Connected to the Pink
I like buying a lot of things, especially pink items. These things are piling up in my room. So, I started to think about what shapes my desire and why I bought these things.
I found that the desire to purchase is similar to sexual desire. What I purchased is a constructed femininity. It seems I am led by the way society uses buying stuff to offset the women’s sexual desire, which the society (especially in Asia) denies.
In heteronormative relationships, women are often portrayed as objects, as if a woman can only achieve positive subjectivity when she is connected to other objects. Circuits of desire flow from men to women and from women to commodities.
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