Rabbit {Paint me like one of your 19th century gothic heroines!} > Recent Status Updates

DNF. I can't be bothered to finish this. Meh. Whatever.

This book is taking me forever to finish. I am enjoying it, though.

Skimming now because no1curr, nobody got time for this, etc. Also the damn telling us but not showing technique. Very tricky device to use, and it's done wrong here. I am also bored while reading this book.

I really don't like this. It's awkwardly written. Also smh at the way mental illness is handled so far.

RIP Robin Williams. You were a big part of my childhood. You are at peace now.

"Radio stations in Iowa and Florida sponsored 'Breeder's Cup' contests- a $1,000 savings bond, six months of diaper service, and a crib to the first couple to conceive." For realz?

"When the 1990 Virginia Slims poll specifically asked women about 'mommy tracking', 70% of the women called it discriminatory and 'just an excuse for paying women less than men.' "

"While in the 80's AIDS remained largely a male affliction, these media directives were aimed almost exclusively at women. In each case, women were reminded to re-embrace 'traditional' sex roles- or suffer the consequences. For women, the trend story was no news report; it was a moral reproach."

"The arguments were always the same: equal education would make women spinsters, equal employment would make women sterile, equal rights would make women bad mothers. With each new historical cycle, the threats were simply updated and sanitized, and new 'experts' enlisted."

"By 1971, the press was already declaring this latest "fad" [feminism] a "bore" or "dead"."

I love you coffee <3

"The feminist entreaty to follow one's own instincts became a merchandizing appeal to obey the call of the market- an appeal that diluted and degraded women's quest for true self-determination."

"Once a society projects its fears onto a female form, it can try to cordon off those fears by controlling women- pushing them to comfortingly nostalgic norms and shrinking them in the cultural imagination to a manageable size."

"When author Anthony Astrachan completed his seven-year study of American male attitudes in the 1980s, he found that no more than 5 to 10% of the men he surveyed 'genuinely support women's demands for independence and equality.' "

"In periods of backlash, birth control becomes less available, abortion is restricted, and women who avail themselves of it are painted as 'selfish' or 'immoral'."

"The 50's backlash, in short, didn't transform women into full-time 'happy housewives'; it just demoted them to poorly paid secretaries."

I'm going to hell for enjoying the non-con spanking.