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"In the many months before the regionals meet, I presented myself as others desired me. ... Jim saw me obeying his practice sets and prescribed daily diet plan..."

no need to athlete-splain to me. i KNOW what an eating disorder looks like

every single character in this book has been or is insufferable, one way or another, and im into it.

also suspecting a chronic case of unreliable narrator, through both ren and cathy, and im alsooo into that!

"I cannot describe Mr. Osborne’s face or his classroom. The tiny details comprising insignificant men like him have long since been discarded from my memory. But I can easily recall the shapes of his greasy fingerprints on my book’s laminated cover. He gave me my first experience in attempting to prove myself to a man, with no avail."

oh this book and i are going to get along Juuusssst Fineeee

something something trying to be chill at the function

giving any men i see in public the stink eye because of this book rn

dude...........

DUDE.

six sevennn

"We do not choose the brains that spark inside our heads, lifting us into bliss, bearing us across a placid sea, and then, without warning, casting us into hell. My mind, sometimes fevered, addled, other times perfectly unextraordinary: I must take it as it is and grapple with it however I can. Sometimes it’s too much. I would not choose otherwise."

"We have all shit the friendship bed at some time or another."

the autobiographical moments of this book have me in tears dude

this book is reminding me of how to think like a woman by regan penaluna...

"Too Much ... the overdetermined exponent of ideologies, centuries old, structured by misogyny, racism, and homophobia. American society fetishizes white heteronormative propriety: it wants its girls pliable and demure—girls who safeguard both tears and sex for the privacy of the bedroom, who keep their voices measured during meetings, and who brush their hair and blot their lipstick."

grinning with glee rn

"It was either blasting the anger out or turning the anger in, and she wasn’t willing to keep it there any longer. She would not shred herself up inside, would not churn her guts to acid, would not grind her teeth in her sleep or cause her neck to go out, for the sake of being civil and mature and understanding and levelheaded."

"I feel as though societal norms, gendered expectations, and the infuriating bluntness of biology have forced me to become this person even though I’m having a hard time parsing how, precisely, I arrived at this place. I am angry all the time."

this book is making my fear of motherhood a million times stronger. so grotesque yet i CANNOT look away

"He had a job. He made money. He was off on his work trips ... She stood with the babe in arms and watched him back the car from the driveway. Her undergraduate degree was from a prestigious university, better than the one he had attended. She held two master's degrees, whereas he held none. (She also held a baby.)"

oh i like this book already...

The laws were so severe that they commanded the members of the Hebrew religion to murder even their own children if they did not worship Yahweh. ... "If your brother or son or daughter or wife or friend suggest serving other gods, you must kill him, your hand must be the first raised in putting him to death and all the people shall follow you" (Deut. 13:6).

no love like religious hate...

man this book is REALLY testing my history and prehistory knowledge. fuck u know about the hittites and indo europeans

"Heraclides Ponticus said of the Lycians, “From of old they have been ruled by the women.”"

how it SHOULD be. bless up

" Myths present ideas that guide perception, conditioning us to think and even perceive in a particular way ... It was quite apparent that the myths and legends ... were propagated by, a religion in which the deity was female, and revered as wise, valiant, powerful and just, provided very different images of womanhood from those which we are offered by the male-oriented religions of today."

"Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How many scholars have simply assumed that males have always played the dominant role in leadership and creative invention and projected this assumption into their analysis of ancient cultures?"

oh i think this book and i are going to get on just fine

can phosyne and ser voyne kiss already

oh goody gumdrops, i love grotesque depictions of what unfathomable depths mankind will go to when irrevocably branded by desparation!!!

victor frankenstein just died i cheered

the creature is the only likeable character in this entire book

i could cry i love these characters