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“Ultimately, it is our mindlessness that imprisons us. We get better and better at being out of touch with the full range of our possibilities, and more and more stuck in our cultivated-over-a-lifetime habits of not-seeing, but only reacting and blaming.”
― Wherever You Go, There You Are
― Wherever You Go, There You Are
“always somebody’s someone, and seldom her own person. But this is not because she’s not held to be a person at all, but rather because her personhood is held to be owed to others, in the form of service labor, love, and loyalty.”
― Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
― Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
“Voter suppression works its might by first tripping and causing to stumble the unwanted voter, then by convincing those who see the obstacle”
― Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
― Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
“propose taking sexism to be the branch of patriarchal ideology that justifies and rationalizes a patriarchal social order, and misogyny as the system that polices and enforces its governing norms and expectations. So sexism is scientific; misogyny is moralistic. And a patriarchal order has a hegemonic quality.”
― Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
― Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
“sexist ideology will tend to discriminate between men and women, typically by alleging sex differences beyond what is known or could be known, and sometimes counter to our best current scientific evidence. Misogyny will typically differentiate between good women and bad ones, and punishes the latter. Overall, sexism and misogyny share a common purpose—to maintain or restore a patriarchal social order.”
― Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
― Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Tonya’s 2025 Year in Books
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