“It's hard not to feel humorless, as a woman and a feminist, to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you're not imagining things. It's hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you're going to float the fuck away. The problem is not that one of these things is happening; it's that they are all happening, concurrently and constantly.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist
“It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away.”
― Bad Feminist: Essays
― Bad Feminist: Essays
“Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
“When I am walking down the street, men lean out of their car windows and shout vulgar things at me about my body, how they see it, and how it upsets them that I am not catering to their gaze and their preferences and desires. I try not to take these men seriously because what they are really saying is, “I am not attracted to you. I do not want to fuck you, and this confuses my understanding of my masculinity, entitlement, and place in this world.” It is not my job to please them with my body.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist
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