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“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

“But just then, a herd of deer clipped down the street, followed by a topless unicycle collective.”
― Chana Porter, The Seep

“It takes tremendous bravery to confront childhood trauma and attachment ruptures. You are not broken and in need of fixing. Rather, you are in need of care and nurturance for the unique attachment experiences you went through.”
― Jessica Fern, The Polysecure Workbook: Healing Your Attachment and Creating Security in Loving Relationships

“Must not the oppressed become the oppressor in order to further change?”
― Saara El-Arifi, The Battle Drum

“It wasn’t until human beings stopped moving that women with sexual independence started gaining a bad rap, because once owning land became desirable, people wanted to be able to pass it down to their children, and in order for men to know who their children were, female monogamy became a must. To create a system of inheritance, societies became patriarchal, and any remaining notions of goddess-like sexual liberation went kaput.”
― Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

“According to the Corpus of Historical American English, which contains a massive four hundred million words from the 1810s to the 2000s, most people didn’t start using the word gender to describe human beings until the 1980s.”
― Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

“I also understand how easy it is to be pulled into a web of lies. How a simple recipe for purpose and belonging can also be used to brew something poisonous and deadly.”
― Saara El-Arifi, The Ending Fire

“Life,” my father said, “is what we have the most in common with every other creature. We all want to live and we become scared when living is threatened. All of us just want to survive and be comfortable, be happy.”
― Riley August, The Last Gifts of the Universe

“a language is a dialect with an army and a navy,”
― Laura Spinney, Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global