Meaning of double bind | Babel Free

Definitions

A dilemma in which someone receives contradictory instructions and cannot act on either.

Examples

“She is deciding, right then and there, if she wants to be seen naked on the internet, forever, an object of desire as well as derision. […] In a sense, as Angel notes, the scene dramatizes “the double bind in which women exist: that saying no may be difficult, but so too is saying yes.””

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