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"... the declared servant if the people methodically advanced the people's servitude."

Casper proposes authors could possibly've evade authorities by writing in English, presumed elitist to impact peasants.

"As one writer suggests, 'Good literature, of course, is always subversive-- not in that it advances ideologies or is politicized, for that is not its function; but in that it observes and tells the truth of what it sees. Were it to propose specific solutions or endorse political creeds, it would lose this independence and it credibility."

I don't necessarily agree, just wanted to record where the author comes from

" 'I get why you want to prove that you were born the way that you are, but who the fuck cares? I'll tell you this: Those guys chose to be uneducated'."

Why does Thorne/Lucy make so much anti-Asian sentiment? Blaming Thai food, teeth "chink", North Korea, Calcutta slum? Jesus Christ. In any case, I honestly feel like all of the story's conflict is in Lucy's head rather than actually with Josh which is rather boring and odd. On minute she's nutting about her control over him, the next she thinks she should be with Danny. Typical, weird, manic rom-com bananery. #SPAP

STRAIGHT PEOPLE ARE PERVERTS!!!!! lmao. hoenstly what a mess

like this is any stereotypical manic rom-com lady???? attention is attention dude. also, speaking to your parents? can't relate lol.

I just don't think I like the enemies to lovers trope DDD: this broad is 28? really very juvenile. like scratching out naomi campbell's eyes? uh ok. out of all the supermodels or celebrities in the world the author had to pick like the ONLY dark skinned woman? v. annoying.

prayer on good friday

Women seeking abortion seen as irresponsible/irrational-- when they've really pissed on a stick + seen the result, "in a flash" had to digest how a new child will change her future, decide who to confide in, who will judge, if this needs to be hidden, "confronted thought about her life, ideas about fulfillment, love, parenthood, and God." school schedules, work, other children or ailing relatives, her own health

11 people, including 4 doctors, have been assassinated since Roe vs. Wade in 1973.

"In 27 states, women are now forced to wait 1, 2, or even 3 days between receiving mandatory 'counseling' (which often contains bogus information) and obtaining an abortion, a barrier that puts an undue burden on working women, women with children, and women who live in rural areas, requiring them to take time off work and spend additional money to travel back and forth to a clinic that may be 200 miles from home."

no historical, philosophical, theological, scientific consensus for start of life

"But the 'tragic heroine' narrative supports what I call the 'politics of respectability,' a cultural set of unexamined assumptions that go like this: Women who make autonomous decisions about their sexual pleasure and their fertility are 'bad,' and an unplanned pregnancy represents a grave error in judgement...."

"[Rizal] writes: 'It was the poor who accepted Christianity first, yes... They hailed Jesus... Man to whom poverty was not a blemish, someone who could deliver them from their misfortune. The poor are among those least contented with their fate, they continually search for relief to their suffering, they accept everything that is new in their desire to change the present...'"

list of inconveniences/administrative oppression under colonialism reminiscent of Palestine

would you kill for revolution

Bobby Seale speaks of E. Cleaver's anarchism.