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For instance, a non-monogamous couple may choose to be monogamous in practice during and directly after a pregnancy and return to non-monogamy when the time feels right. Another couple may be poly for a while but decide to swing for a bit
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This, and many other parts of the book is unfortunately very "primary couple" centered. Symptomatically zero mention is made of what effect it will have on your other partners if they're summarily dumped in situations such as the ones she mentions here.
“We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics come in saying that only 29% of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42% of British women - I used to think, What do you think feminism IS, ladies? What part of 'liberation for women' is not for you? Is it freedom to vote? The right not to be owned by the man you marry? The campaign for equal pay? 'Vogue' by Madonna? Jeans? Did all that good shit GET ON YOUR NERVES? Or were you just DRUNK AT THE TIME OF THE SURVEY?”
― How to Be a Woman
― How to Be a Woman
“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.”
― How to Be a Woman
― How to Be a Woman
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