“Wir werden Forderungen stellen, die wir zuvor nie gewagt hätten zu stellen, und wir werden dabei nicht "bitte" sagen, denn man sagt gar nicht "bitte" bei Revolutionen. Man sagt nur "danke" zu denen, die mitgekämpft haben.”
― Untenrum frei
― Untenrum frei
“Es ist weit verbreitet, Frauen als Menschen mit Geschlecht zu betrachten und Männer als Menschen: Chefinnen haben einen «weiblichen Führungsstil», Männer einen eigenen.”
― Untenrum frei
― Untenrum frei
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
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“Einerseits wird von Frauen immer wieder gefordert, sich doch bitte zu nehmen, was sie wollen: Jobs, faire Bezahlung, Männer. Andererseits gibt es aber eben das fast schon archetypische Bild der Feministin, die sich viel zu schnell aufregt, hysterisch wird und alles scheiße findet. Mädchen und Frauen sollen wollen und begehren und beanspruchen - aber sie sollen dabei bitte nicht anstrengend werden: ein unauflösbarer Widerspruch.”
― Untenrum frei
― Untenrum frei
“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.”
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