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"Hmmmmmm….Sophie’s argument—that 2000s mainstream media co-opted feminist language in order to strip it of meaning and power—is sound, but she doesn’t always connect it back to what she is discussing. The first chapter is the strongest because it explains in detail how teen pop acts overtook the riot grrrls by appropriating their “Girl Power” slogan." — May 23, 2026 10:41PM
"Hmmmmmm….Sophie’s argument—that 2000s mainstream media co-opted feminist language in order to strip it of meaning and power—is sound, but she doesn’t always connect it back to what she is discussing. The first chapter is the strongest because it explains in detail how teen pop acts overtook the riot grrrls by appropriating their “Girl Power” slogan." — May 23, 2026 10:41PM
“Here is what I think: We have a right to our imagined traditions, to our imagined places, and those traditions and places are most powerful when we confess that they are imagined.”
― The Message
― The Message
“When editors and journalists steer clear of important topics for fear that their audiences can’t cope with complex truths, it doesn’t throttle conspiracies—it fuels them.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“Being alive in a knife-edge moment like this, being forced to be complicit in it, while our so-called leaders fail so miserably to act, unavoidably generates all kinds of morbid symptoms. Inevitably, people reach for narratives to make sense of this reality.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“I want to tell you I was wrong. I want to tell you that your oppression will not save you, that being a victim will not enlighten you, that it can just as easily deceive you. I learned that here. In Haifa. In Ramallah. And especially here at Yad Vashem.”
― The Message
― The Message
“How empty does your message have to be for a deranged right wing to even have a chance of winning? Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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