Michaela Cotner

“Of course, all those violent scenarios she’s been warned about happen with much less frequency than the daily slights. Things so small she never considered them violent until she stopped to consider what they steal. The interrupting while she’s speaking, the assumptions about her intelligence, the shrinking options to make choices about her body, the underrepresentation in every decision-making sphere, the free-for-all on guns that has given her a constant case of low-grade anxiety, and the consistent commoditization of the female body, to name the first things that come to mind. It all amounts to a flashing sign with the message that women are not so much unique individuals as vessels for other people’s fixations and desires.”
― Johanna Copeland, Our Kind of Game