Status Updates From Good Woman: A Reckoning

“Asking women to confidently refuse or withdraw consent feels almost cruel in a culture that constantly socializes women to prioritize other people's feelings and subsume their own.”

“This learned reflex of centering male experience and male action while marginalizing female experience is exactly what consent culture strives to correct when it stresses that, ultimately, the identification of a coercive sexual act lies not in the nature or degree of coercion but in the consent or lack thereof.”

“There's a certain type of man I call a voting-booth feminist. He's down with Kamala Harris. AOC rocks…But he doesn't, like, pick up his socks. He doesn't cook much. He doesn't clean much. He doesn't watch chick movies or read women authors…If there is a way to integrate his so-called feminism into his private life, he doesn't see it. Which is to say, he doesn't want to see it.”

“How we talk about God's gender in a culture that uses gender to allocate money, power, safety, duty, and opportunity matters. Readability and convention are not compelling enough reasons to cast half the world out of likeness with God while the other half sees themselves continually mirrored.”

These essays are REALLY fucking good.