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“When I was hospitalized at the age of fifteen, the psychiatrist asked me why I had made myself so ugly. I thought he had nerve asking me that, since I thought I looked pretty damn cool with red spiky hair, black lips, white lace tights, and outsize army boots. He insisted, was I afraid of being pretty? He said that I had such lovely eyes.”
― Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

“It wasn't by accident. I consented to become a weaker person.”
― Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

“Men love talking about women. At least then they don't have to talk about themselves. How is it that in thirty years no man has produced the slightest innovative work on masculinity? They are so expert, so voluble when it comes to holding forth about women, so why this silence when it comes to themselves? We know that the more they speak, the less they say -- of essentials, of what they really think. Perhaps they want us to talk about them instead? For example, perhaps they want to be told how their gang bangs look from the outside? Well, they look as if men want to see themselves fucking, as i they want to look at each other's dicks, to be together with their hard-ons; as if they want to get fucked themselves. It looks as if what they're scared to admit is what they really want: to fuck each other. Men love other men. They are always explaining how much they love women, but we all know they're fibbing. They love each other women. Many of them start thinking about friends when they're still inside a pussy.”
― Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

“To be called a rapist one has to be a total psycho who ends up in a prison, a serial rapist who slices up cunts with broken bottles, a pedophile who attacks little girls. Because men condemn rape and despise rapists. What they do is always something else.”
― Virginie Despentes