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Caleb Zimmer
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“It is understandable why (from this perspective), women objects to masculine logic. Not only does it have no bearing on her experience, but she also knows that in men’s hands, reason becomes an insidious form of violence.”
— 12 hours, 25 min ago
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Katie B
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“There is also the temptation to forego liberty and become a thing. This is an inauspicious road, for he who takes it — passive, lost, ruined — becomes henceforth the creature of another’s will… But it is an easy road; on it one avoids the strain involved in undertaking an authentic existence.”
— Jun 22, 2026 06:31PM
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Caleb Zimmer
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I think if I could snap my fingers like Thanos, I might wish for males to never have been necessary for human reproduction. I feel as though even the best individual relations between men and women do not provide respite for the horrible conditions that women are subjected to in a world ruled by men’s ideals. I mourn what safe and happy lives women could have lived if men did not feel threatened by them.
— Jun 22, 2026 04:56PM
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