What Marilyn Monroe Taught Me About Feminism | by Brooklyn Reece | An ...

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Now you might be reading that first sentence and thinking, Hey, what’s wrong with it? Initially, maybe nothing appears wrong to you.

In almost all of the articles I could find, that was all they referred to her as. A sex symbol. Sometimes they’d refer to her as a “star” or an actress, but the first sentence was always sex symbol. Her body came first. Her sex appeal came first. Not her tale

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