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"Reese spent a lifetime observing cis women confirm their genders through male violence. Watch any movie on the lifetime channel. Go to any schoolyard….Hear women define themselves through pain, or rage against the assumption that they do…hear the strange sense of satisfaction when they talk about the men who have hurt them-the unspoken subtext of it being because I am a woman." (59)
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Alana
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"And without legible traumas to point to, what would pain make her? At best, a trans version of those Didion-worshipping Bourgeois white girls who subscribed to a Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain…minor-wound-dwelling brooders with no particular difficulties but for an inchoate sense of their own wronged-ness, a wronged-ness that fell apart when put into words but nonetheless justified all manner of petulance."
— Mar 14, 2026 12:15PM
Alana
is on page 130 of 337
"Amy’s performance had created a fundamental separation between the two of them. Something that hadn’t existed before. Something animal in her. A brute who could take a woman. Delia talked to her differently-like she had more respect for Amy, but also, had to maintain a careful distance. This was a budding man, after all." (129)
— Mar 13, 2026 12:04PM
Alana
is on page 59 of 337
"Reese wanted to end their games, to get hit in a way that would affirm, once and for all, what she wanted to feel about her womanhood: her delicacy, her helplessness, her infuriating attractiveness…Reese spent a lifetime observing cis women confirm their genders through male violence." (59)
— Mar 08, 2026 01:03PM
