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“Miksi entinen pääministeri "heruttaa"? Onko se väärin? Onhan naisten vapautumiseen aina liittynyt sekä naisellisuuden että seksualisuuden korostaminen, sen ottaminen omiin käsiin. Madonna, Spice Girls, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Erika Vikman. Yhä uudelleen joku tunnettu nainen riisuutuu alastonkuviin "rohkeana tekona". Jos ennen nainen oli halun kohde, nyt hän on halun lähde, bosslady, joka päättää itse.”
― Salla Vuorikoski, Sanna Marin - Poikkeuksellinen pääministeri

“Lapsena ja nuorena kuuluu asiaan hävetä omia vanhempiaan. Itseään teini voi vielä jotenkin yrittää hallita, mutta omat vanhemmat – he ovat kuin luonnonvoima, jonka aisoissa pitäminen on lähes mahdotonta. Muistan prinsessa Victorian kertoneen tv-dokumentissa, miten hirveää oli, kun vanhemmat tulivat avoimien ovien päivänä vierailulle hänen esikouluunsa ja hyppivät muiden isien ja äitien kanssa pupujusseina piirissä. Carl Gustafilla oli naurettavat flanellikorvat päässä ja kaiken lisäksi hän oli kuningas. Kruununprinsessa häpesi kuollakseen.”
― Katriina Järvinen, Kaikella kunnioituksella : Irtiottoja vanhempien vallasta

“What I had done was terrible and almost impossible to understand. There was no rhyme or reason to it. So once again I felt the need to emphasize that my downfall couldn’t be explained away with a couple of glib theories, sound bites, or one-line summaries. You could come up with a whole list of possible explanations: a desire to achieve something, naked ambition, laziness, nihilism, a lust for power, status anxiety, the urge to find solutions, the need to feel whole, pressure to “publish or perish”, arrogance, emotional flakiness, loneliness, disappointment, low attention span, addiction to answers, etc etc etc, but none of these constructs had sufficient explanatory power to reveal why I’d done what I had. You’d need the whole set, and then a whole lot more. I’d spent years trying to find simpler and more concise explanations and theories to describe human behavior, but all the time that I’d been looking for order, structure, and simplicity, I’d been
keeping my eyes more and more tightly shut to reality until the inevitable happened, and I’d crashed and burned. And in so doing, I’d rather neatly proven the opposite of what I’d been looking for. If you want things to be extremely clear and simple, just close your eyes.”
― Diederik Stapel, Faking Science: A True Story of Academic Fraud

“These arguments bring to mind the long-running “My Strength Is Not for
Hurting” campaign by Men Can Stop Rape, an admirable project led by
feminist men but also an example of the fact that, apparently, one of the
most effective strategies for getting straight men on board with profeminist,
antirape messages is giving them space to celebrate their masculinity in the
same breath. From a queer perspective, this is one of the more discouraging
elements of the heterosexual tragedy: when straight men move toward
feminism, they almost always do so in ways that prop up the gender binary
that causes their problems in the first place! Straight men’s feminism—
when anchored in gender-essentialist ideas about “real manhood”—also
relies on the emotional labor of straight women who are compelled to
celebrate and reward men for putting their “masculine energy” or “male
strength” to a nonviolent use.”
― Jane Ward, The Tragedy of Heterosexuality