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oh god the dread

“I felt sorry for him, married to someone whose trousers were undone” lmao

need the word count on the amount of times victor refers to himself as (being) miserable

you’re telling me that i have gone through all my life thus far, erroneously believing the monster itself to be called frankenstein? you’re kidding

woah nobody writes like this anymore, let alone at eighteen years old!

I too am in need of a friend and feel more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. Didn’t expect to find so much recognition in this book only 10 pages in.

picked this up again after a while and as much as i enjoy the writing, the story progression kind of drags a little bit. maybe i’m just not in the right state of mind.

only two chapters left and it doesn’t even feel like the story is coming to an end

finally got my physical copy!

“women live defensively, not just against rape but against the language of the rapist — the language of what a women is called in intimacy and in public, loud and soft”

“the response to the underlining of her sex so as to impugn her credibility should not rest on wether or not one agrees with the woman about whatever issue; the response should be a response to the antifeminism and misogyny being used against her”

“As long as issues of female sexual and reproductive destiny are posed as if they are resolved by individuals as individuals, there is no way to confront the actual conditions that perpetuate the sexual exploitation of women”