Nocturn

“My brother once called me a hard person. I think he meant that I am a person who does not forgive. This is true. I find it difficult to forgive people who have done harm to me. I am this way out of necessity, because if I do not remember the harm done to me, then no one will, and the boy that I was will have no one to look out for him.”
― Brandon Taylor, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

“Every accommodation that women make to
this domination, however apparently stupid, self-defeating, or dangerous, is rooted in the urgent need to survive somehow on male
terms. Inevitably this causes women to take the rage and contempt
they feel for the men who actually abuse them, those close to
them, and project it onto others, those far away, foreign, or different.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women

“Antifeminism breaks down into contempt for particular kinds of women—as men envision the kinds of women there are. There is a spectrum of insult. Lesbians, intellectuals, and uppity women are hated for their resumption, their arrogance, their masculine ambition. Prudes, spinsters, and celibates may not
want to be like men but they seem able to live without them; so they are treated with contempt and disdain. Sluts, “nymphos, ” and tarts are hated because they are cheap, not expensive, and because they are their sex raw or sex itself.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women

“Tony told the psychiatrists /he/ liked to crash cars into walls for sexual pleasure and also that he wanted to kill women because he thought looking into their eyes as they died would make him feel normal.
"Where did you get that one from?" I asked Tony.
"A biography of Ted Bundy," Tony replied. "I found it in the prison library."
I nodded and thought it probably wasn't a great idea for prison libraries to stock books about Ted Bundy.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry