Crying At The Playboy Office is an essay by Ling Ma that was published last year on BuzzFeed, but we were rereading it over the weekend because A) we just devoured Ma’s novel, Severance, and are capital “O” obsessed, and also because B) it’s a devastating reflection of all the weird, terrifying power dynamics that young people (especially women and people of color) have to navigate in the workplace, especially in an industry as still as codependent with ~tradition~ as media. A lil taste:
everyone got their Nice Face on??
everyone got their Nice Face on??
everyone got their Nice Face on??
Crying At The Playboy Office is an essay by Ling Ma that was published last year on BuzzFeed, but we were rereading it over the weekend because A) we just devoured Ma’s novel, Severance, and are capital “O” obsessed, and also because B) it’s a devastating reflection of all the weird, terrifying power dynamics that young people (especially women and people of color) have to navigate in the workplace, especially in an industry as still as codependent with ~tradition~ as media. A lil taste: