Fetishization Quotes

“By fetishizing youth and virginity, we're supporting a disturbing message: that really sexy women aren't women at all- they're girls.”
― Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

“Modernity, though, is often surprisingly difficult to "locate." Certainly modernity cannot be defined as the surpassing of earlier forms of brutality. Perhaps it can be claimed that modernity should be equated with the possession of superior technology. But this response may itself reflect the modern fetishization of technology, which make it a magical solution for human problems.”
― Alexander Edmonds, Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil

“There is nothing welcoming about the notion that a positive reception, from a group or an individual, is based more on what you are than who you are.”
― Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities

“I noticed a trend with white communists.

They do not value autonomy and liberation, they value control and dominance, just like their political counterparts. They do not oppose centralized power, they oppose centralized power that they do not have ownership of.

It isn't about the liberation of marginalized classes, it's about placing power within the white "working class" and those in proximity to them.”
― Sasha Scarr

“Well-meaning friends never failed to warn me, if a white guy was attracted to me, that he probably had an Asian fetish. The result: I distrusted my desirousness. My sexuality was a pathology. If anyone non-Asian liked me, there was something wrong with him.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“Most of my encounters with men, such as they were, ended as soon as I smelled them.”
― Misha Bell