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“Writing is either a way to shed my self-delusions or a way to develop them. A well-practiced, conclusive narrative is usually a dubious one:”
― Trick Mirror
― Trick Mirror
“As Rebecca Solnit put it: “Sex is a commodity, accumulation of this commodity enhances a man’s status, and every man has a right to accumulation, but women are in some mysterious way obstacles to this, and they are therefore the enemy as well as the commodity.” Incels, Solnit says, “are furious at their own low status, but don’t question the system that allocates status and commodifies us all”
― The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
― The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
“We need a material analysis, buttressed with a sense of humor and a recognition of human fallibility, that connects the fight for a better world to the immediate interests of the majority of the population.”
― Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
― Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
“Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become tainted, like most things American, by the puritanical paradigm of original sin.”
― Rejection
― Rejection
“Kincaid doesn’t want us to see him as a cliché. He also presumably doesn’t want us thinking about—or isn’t himself aware of—the gender dynamics that underpin this cliché. By this I don’t only mean the way that boys and men are socialized to find domination sexy, and girls and women to find subordination sexy; or the way that some male professors blend sexual entitlement with intellectual narcissism, seeing sex with women students as the delayed reward for suffering through an adolescence in which brawn or cool were prized more highly than brains.”
― The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
― The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
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