Outdated Quotes

“It is hard to feel safe and comfortable when the only measures for what is safe and comfortable are normative ideas you don't abide by.”
― Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life

“Through fetishizing the inequality embedded in the romance story, women have somehow become convinced that being in, or even vying for, a relationship is something we should want -- regardless of whether that relationship might hold equal power or doesn't serve us.”
― Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life

“The problem with the 'masculinity crisis' is not that women have excelled too much and therefore created a crisis for men, but that we have such a stein inability to let go of what it has traditionally meant to be a man...As long as we perpetuate the myth that men have inherent qualities that make them more suitable than women for certain types of work, the shifting nature of the economy (and women's attainment of better jobs) is going to continue to be interpreted as a crisis of masculinity.”
― Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life

“It want the sex that wa starting to feel toxic; it was the sexism.”
― Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life