ladybusiness | (Reply)

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Looking at this analysis of the trope, I'm really reminded of the capital-R Romantic ideal of the (male) artist with his (female) Muse -- kind of an earlier iteration of a similar idea, I think. She doesn't create works herself, but her ineffable ~being~ is the source of creative energy for him. It's one of those sneaky kinds of objectification that sounds like it's admiration until the question of agency comes up.

And then I want to go off into tangents about the shift from artistic inspiration to personal-life catalyst, but I think that would be getting pretty far off topic from where you've started here.

Good stuff to think about, though!