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I really appreciate this piece as it opens such an important door into how many women have had to trade being seen for being accepted. But I also think there was something deeply powerful in the way Marilyn embodied archetypes. She wasn’t just looked at — she knew how to be seen, and she wielded that skill like a spell. She wasn’t naive or passive. She studied, transformed, and created her persona. She moved through this world with the Lover and the Muse and the Trickster archetypes all alive in her. And while her life was undeniably shaped by systems of exploitation, I also believe she shaped them right back. There’s something mythic in that.

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