Loveto

“Attention to the meaning of the central male slang term for sexual intercourse—"fuck"— is instructive. To fuck a woman is to have sex with her. To fuck someone in another context… means to hurt or cheat a person. And when hurled as a simple insult (“fuck you”) the intent is denigration and the remark is often a prelude to violence or the threat of violence. Sex in patriarchy is fucking. That we live in a world in which people continue to use the same word for sex and violence, and then resist the notion that sex is routinely violent and claim to be outraged when sex becomes overtly violent, is testament to the power of patriarchy.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“Colored women worked hard. What exactly was wrong with us getting some of the shine, as long as the shine was being given out anyhow? I knew God wanted women to be modest in every way. The Bible made that plain. But, standing there now, with the space to ponder it good and hard and nobody telling me not to, I couldn’t think of a reason why it ought to be that way. It suddenly seemed like a very strange thing for God to want.”
― Mia McKenzie, These Heathens