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“Ignoring men, whether romantically or rhetorically, is existential violence to them.”
― Sex Object: A Memoir
― Sex Object: A Memoir
“Still, somehow, inexplicably, “man-hater” is a word tossed around with insouciance as if this was a real thing that did harm. Meanwhile we have no real word for men who kill women. Is the word just “men”?”
― Sex Object: A Memoir
― Sex Object: A Memoir
“When you look hard enough and long enough at your own face, everything about it starts to seem hideous.”
― Sex Object
― Sex Object
“Being treated nicely felt wrong somehow, as if we were acting out what a relationship should be rather than being in it. For men who hate women, an admission like this one is proof that see, women want a guy who treats them like shit but that's not true either. What is closer to the truth is that when confronted with the love you deserve, it is easier to mock it than accept it.”
― Sex Object: A Memoir
― Sex Object: A Memoir
“A high school teacher once told me that identity is half what we tell ourselves and half what we tell other people about ourselves. But the missing piece he didn’t mention—the piece that holds so much weight, especially in the minds of young women and girls—is the stories that other people tell us about ourselves. Those narratives become the ones we shape ourselves into. They’re who we are, even if so much of it is a performance. This”
― Sex Object
― Sex Object
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