Catherine C > Recent Status Updates

“ It’s all comes back, again and again, to men’s entitlement. Entitlement to progress. Entitlement to wealth. Entitlement to plausible deniability. Entitlement to our bodies. Entitlement to our faces. Entitlement to our lives. Entitlement to our genitals.” That’s it. That’s the whole book.

…what is wrong with men?

(Talking about the brutalized body of a sex doll in a cyber brothel)
“If she can’t feel it, does it matter? But what about the other women in whose image she has been made? What about all the ways that we can feel pain, all the ways we can be impacted if our collective humanity is gradually eroded by providing yet more hyper-efficient and persuasive ways for men to see us less than human? What about our pain?”

I need to go lie down.

“There are (sex) robots that can sing to you and robots that report the weather forecast.”

I would have thought the weather thing would be a mood killer.

Reading about the Metaverse and minors is making me feel physically sick.

The rage is building. I feel it in my chest.

Only 18 pages in and the fact that Deepfake pornography is not illegal is actually disturbing.

Scissoring was also not on the list.

(Don’t get me wrong, it’s integral; just a bit surprising.)

If you had told me what to expect with this book, *SPOILER* fingering was not on my predictions list.

Things are heating up and I don’t mean the summer

Isabel, that house has a grip on you.

I’m just going to say it now, Neema has far more restraint than I have.

Now, it’s starting to pick up!

Not gonna lie, I was having difficulty getting into this one but it’s really starting to pick up.

“Being a good person was about squashing our human, sin nature, not about being happy.”

If this was your experience growing up in a high control , religious environment, I am so sorry.

I knew this book was going to be hard in some ways, but I think the chapter on Abortion really took the cake (at least at the moment)