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great connections between the fear of gender ideology and critical race theory but i kind of…already knew that? who was this chapter written for?

uhhh 性别 is NOT a radical inclusive term and it doesn’t mean gender and in fact it turns sex and gender into one word…also nobody uses 两性 that word has a number in it why would it be used to mean sex/gender…what are we even saying right now

ehhh idk if you can just say “separate gender from financial coercion” that easily. if conservatives use financial coercion to push their ideologies, and progressives don’t do the same thing due to some moral superiority, aren’t we depriving people from living a better life? just to performatively prove that we’re more ethical than the conservatives?

“given that it was western cash that galvanized the anti-gay movement in uganda, one can see how an african country dependent on foreign aid and religious funding is pushed and pulled by the funders […]. one can see why some scholars hold that gender and sexuality conflicts in uganda are ‘proxy wars’ launched by western states.”

woahh this is interesting

i didn’t know pope francis said all that :(((

“many people refer to ‘sex’ as if it is an obvious fact, based on observation. […] consider, however, that sex assignment is not simply an announcement of the sex that an infant is perceived to be; it also communicates a set of adult desires and expectations. […] so sex assignment is not a simple description of anatomical facts, but a way of imagining what they will mean, or should mean.”

(continuation of my last update) (re: the idea that gender is a single, evil ideological movement)

“is this a description of gender studies, or a mirror reflection of a form of religious orthodoxy that has projected its own operation onto gender, figuring it as a rival orthodoxy?”

many conservatives & others tend to make the assumption that reading certain material means you’re blindly accepting & following & being indoctrinated by the ideologies in the book, and this assumption was def something i feared before starting this book. BUT the author addresses this in the introduction LMAO - “gender critics imagine that their opponents read gender theory as they themselves read the bible...”

reading this book as sappho intended (while listening to an ancient greek lyre playlist). god this is the best reading experience i’ve ever had i’m having the time of my life

starting from the beginning again i won’t give up at the long descriptions of new york this time i promise

oh my god do not start reading this book on a plane

sudden ending…

girl is it casual if the two of you are bonding over your shared ex together in a mental hospital and then she says “i like you. i like you better than buddy willard” and then you flashback to all the times you saw women at your college being with other women. and then she tells you she likes you again and then you tell her she makes you puke and then walk out of the room. leaving her there. on your bed

pulling this out of my bookshelf probably just to end up dnf-ing it again in a month. ONE DAY i will finish this book. unfortunately this short measly children’s book is a colossal challenge for me

i really can’t read chinese anymore, i’m trying to have the english and chinese versions side by side to compare as i read but the chinese is utterly incomprehensible to be even though it’s simplified

i love literary modernism i love modernist paintings i love modernist art movements of all shapes and sizes i’m so excited for this book

ivan leaving after that hell of a chapter that is “the grand inquisitor”… ivan pls don’t leave us you’re the most interesting part of the whole book :(
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anyways…i have Many thoughts about the grand inquisitor and ivan’s views on the devil + the 3 temptations in the gospels, i love ivan that was an INSANEEEEE chapter.

so i’m on book 5 chapter 4 “mutiny” aka “rebellion” in other translations, and ivan talking about the utopia that’s dependent on the suffering of a single child is CRAZY to me. i’ve done a debate inspired by ursula k le guin’s short story “the ones who walk away from omelas”, and i did NOT know that story is inspired by this book…and originally a discussion about RELIGION AND JESUS. LIKE WHAT.

“do not hate the atheists, the teachers of evil, the materialists, even the wicked among them” “o lord, save all of those for whom there is no one to pray, save even those who are unwilling to pray to you” “have no love of silver and gold, do not hoard” ELDER ZOSIMA SPITTING BARS ON HIS DEATHBED 😭😭 what a legend i love him

alyosha wanting to peacefully go about his day, but his elder is dying and his oldest brother is insane and might murder his dad and already beat the aforementioned dad half to death, and his second brother wants to see him to discuss aforementioned beating, and the injured dad himself wants to see him too, so does the oldest brother’s wife, and now a 14 year old girl is in love with him.
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GIVE HIM A BREAKKKK.

insaneinsaneinsane

ivan not believing in god itself but believing in the necessity of religion’s existence to uphold a moral society, even going insofar as to argue for a theocracy, is something so interesting to me and refreshing to read about. i loooove ivan.

this book is just dostoevsky arguing with himself

god: i’m bringing you out of slavery in egypt!
israelites: aww thank you! how should we express our eternal gratitude to you? should we make an altar or sacrifice a lamb or…?
god: don’t eat bread with yeast for 7 days.
israelites: ???? sorry what 😃😃
god: bread. no yeast. 7 days.

i should’ve been productive but instead i spent all day today obsessing over these semi-obscure roman statues that i may or may not be seeing during my italy trip next year.

there’s a group of 15 identical statues called the pasquino group and they either depict menelaus carrying patroclus OR ajax carrying achilles. and there are statue fragments in various museums AND I WANNA SEE THEM. SO MUCH.

my mom is like, how is the brothers karamazov going? and i’m still. on page one. 😃😃😃

“i can see them already, deep in the undergrowth,
deep in each other, mating like birds”
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YOU MEAN THE WOMEN????? 😭😭😭😭 DEEP IN EACH OTHER????? MATING LIKE BIRDS??? 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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i love euripides this is insane i love euripides

what if…you hate me…but i also make you mad (literally)…and you lock me up but i escape to find my way back to you…and i dress you like a woman and fix your hair…and you tell me you’re in my hands…and we’re cousins…
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(that was the worst sentence i have EVER written i’m deleting this tomorrow)

“we all compete for wealth and power,
and for every thousand hearts a thousand hopes.
some wither, some bear fruit.
but the one who lives from day to day,
finding good where he can:
he is happy—
he is a lucky man.”
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WTFFFF 😭😭 EURIPIDES SPROUTING PURE POETRY FROM 400 BC

dionysus: i am a god
pentheus: no you’re not! fuck you! i will kill you! rot in prison forever!!!! 😡😡
dionysus: but—
pentheus: FUCK YOUUUU 😡 ROT 😡😡😡😡
dionysus: …anyways do you want to watch a bunch of drunk women dance on the streets?
pentheus: ☺️☺️☺️ yeah! ☺️
dionysus: you have to put on a dress tho
pentheus: ewwwww what but i’m not a 🤮 woman 🤮