Reese Witherspoon Photographed for the May Issue of Vogue by Peter Lindbergh
Carefree White Girl poses with a background of circus animals to emphasize her distance from the savage other. Naturally, she wears a satin gown to queue us about her fragility in a rough environment cunningly represented by the ground straw. In lieu of the White Woman tied to a pole about to be devoured by uncivilized beasts, we are presented with a subverting artistic gaze that modernizes the old myths of yore. Carefree White Girl is, once again, triumphant.
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