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It steers humanity toward conservatism and walls and the narrow interests of men, and it keeps us adrift in waters where women’s safety and humanity are secondary to men’s pleasure and convenience.
The real scam is that being bones isn’t enough either. The game is rigged. There is no perfection.
(In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you.)
We do not stigmatize people with stomach flu. The active ingredient in period stigma is misogyny.
* Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible. It resists deconstruction.
Oh, you think you’re a badass for leaving the book jacket on Half-Blood Prince? You think it makes you a “total nerd” because you’re trying to get through A Clash of Kings before the next season of Game of Thrones comes out? Try reading Robert Jordan on the bus in 1997 with your bass clarinet case wedged between your legs while wearing a Microsoft Bob promotional T-shirt your dad brought home from work. Then try losing your virginity.
Mike made me feel lonely, and being alone with another person is much worse than being alone all by yourself.
Privilege means that it’s easy for white women to do each other favors. Privilege means that those of us who need it the least often get the most help.
Denying people access to value is an incredibly insidious form of emotional violence, one that our culture wields aggressively and liberally to keep marginalized groups small and quiet.
Women, it seemed, were obliged to be thick-skinned about their own rapes, while comics remained too thin-skinned to handle even mild criticism.
There is nothing novel or comedic or righteous about men using the threat of sexual violence to control noncompliant women. This is how society has always functioned. Stay indoors, women. Stay safe. Stay quiet. Stay in the kitchen. Stay pregnant. Stay out of the world. If you want to talk about silencing, censorship, placing limits and consequences on speech, this is what it looks like.
