“The thing about the systematic reduction of a woman down to her parts is that she doesn’t always know it’s happening while it’s going on. Just one day she wakes up and realizes that all she was

was a face,
a line of cleavage,
two legs,
a couple of hands,
the swivel of her pelvis,
the swell of her breast.

We were just the disembodied parts in the display cases.”

– Taffy Brodesser-Akner,
The New York Times, April 23, 2019