Status Updates From Brujas. ¿Estigma o la fuerz...

"I realize that new hopes of making a positive difference mean I am now actively interested in this area, whereas before I wanted only to forget my miserable experiences."

This habit of just dropping and citing names with 0 context drives me crazy. Who is Dominique Brancher? Yes, great observation but who are you?

So this Dr. Dreuf and the play he's from is at least a bit satirical.

"the general impression of moribund commercialism that this civilization gives off" is so apt.

This would've been a great place to point out the misconception that nails and hair don't grow after death.

It is kind of crazy that her older age is what people would go after Brigitte Macron for when even the author should call out that she was his teacher and the whole situation is crazy.

"And yet, on encountering voluntarily childless women, people still regularly threaten, 'You’ll regret it one day!' They are betraying some very weird thinking. Can we force ourselves to do something we haven’t the least wish to do solely in order to head off a hypothetical regret hovering in the distant future?" Thinking Fast and Slow had a whole heuristic for the idea of future regret that shows a fallacy...

"Women are particularly vulnerable to this paradoxical 'injunction to want a child.' And they are all the more sensitive to it because, as one (voluntarily childless) woman remarked to Debest, they have a tendency 'not to distinguish between what they want and what is asked of them.' Jeanne Safer describes how one day she came to realize that she didn’t want to have a baby: she 'want[ed] to want to have a baby.'"

"At this point, we come to the same paradox that lies at the heart of the beauty industry: to be a 'real woman' means putting blood, sweat and tears into achieving something that’s meant to come naturally."

I feel like quoting from a novel--while no doubt a reflective summary of what real beliefs are-- isn't particularly strong evidence without the context of the novel (for example, is it actually meant to be satirical?).

"For example, aren’t you just a little responsible for the existence of the child born somewhat later, with someone else, to the partner whom you left, or for the one conceived by two friends whom you introduced?" I would say this is not the level of intensity detractors have in mind. Kind of a weak statement unless the argument is that these examples should actually be as valid.

"“A ‘real woman’ is a graveyard of desires, of dreams unfulfilled, of delusions,” the Chimères collective wrote."

"The Renaissance demonologists couldn’t even imagine women’s absolute autonomy; for them, the freedom of those they accused of witchcraft had to be understood as part of a further subordination: they were necessarily under the Devil’s sway and therefore still subject to a masculine authority."

Interesting that there was a brief description introducing Gloria Steinem who I have actually heard of vs. none for Starhawk who I have never heard of.

A Yohji Yamamoto reference!