You know the drill, of how, someone, from afar, looks at someone else (usually a famous person), and has them instantly pegged, not just as a certain type, not as a simple category, but an entire life-story, expecting them from that moment on to fulfill the narrative and live up to expectations...The story somehow in our hands, somehow confirming our best worst suspicions...This celeb, from afar, this instantly recognizable, handsome, beautifully relaxed, confident, down-to-earth, elevated version of ourselves, living out the dream...We bump into them despite ourselves, reminded of their youthful looks, their perfect face and hair, the clothes, the house, the dog, their inimitable speech patterns, their quotable quotes, their video appearances, their travel destinations...So much imposed upon this constructed image, not allowing it to be other than it seems....
Prologue - > We are fortunate to live in a time, or so it is said, when we of the future no longer feel the burden of gender to such a degree as in previous ages; nowadays there is no pre-established norm or "role" for us to perform or hold onto like a chain about the neck. There was a time, of course, and not so long ago, when men were de facto expected to be tough strong, resilient, athletic, assertive... and which to judge by the role models in movies and popular culture which we could add on silent, stoical, protective, while no great shock was registered if there should be a woman or more than one who in some degree was known (also through popular culture, movies, novels, songs, etc. in comparison with her male counterparts) as: soft, demure, flirtatious, sociable, wise, and to which one might add on: practical, prescient, intuitive, gregarious, solicitous, nurturing and perhaps multi-tasking, socially-aware, loyal, resilient . With regard to the males, unfair
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