Darcy > Recent Status Updates

"The truth is people of color have been doing this our whole lives, surviving by intuition, navigating spaces safe and unsafe. We knock at a door. The door opens, if we're lucky. And just as quickly, it closes, not because of bruised egos, but because the collective infrastructure is not built to accommodate our bodies, histories, experiences, and opinions." (p. 21)

Romeo and Juliet but if Cronenberg rewrote the ending.

Nope nope nope nope.

"Ethically, yes, it *is* men's responsibility not to rape women; but I don't understand how 'the community' can prevent sexual assault while yet allowing women the freedoms we demand [...] It *is* a woman's responsibility to protect herself against sexual assault. A free woman must accept that in the world there is risk - that risk is part of her freedom."

Well this is some intellectually lazy rape apologist trash.

Bad take #117: "'*Everyone* in this story must have been damaged,' she said. 'It's an overlay of one ideology on another. The very word *harassed* is maddening to me. Women are all *harassed*. It goes without saying, like being *irritable* or *tired*. The thing is that men trivialise sexual harassment and women inflate it. Men make light of it and women make heavy.'"

This is some wild both-sidesing rape apologism.

On women who report sexual harassment: "I thought I might be mad at these girls for not having *taken it like a woman* - for being wimps who ran to the law to whinge about a minor unpleasantness [...] I wondered whether I had become like one of those emotionally scarred men who boast to their sons, '*I* got the strap at school, and it didn't do *me* any harm.'" (40)

Spoiler, Helen: You did. And it's a yikes from me.

"Nichts stiftet so tiefe Freundschaften wie gemeinsames Kotzen." (p.51)

"Es muß eine Menge Dinge geben, gegen die ein heißes Bad nicht hilft, aber ich kenne nicht viele." (p. 26)

"'The English are the only people,' she would say with distaste, 'who want to teach you and steal from you at the same time.'" (p. 356)

From "Be Here Now Means Be Gone Later" by Lionel Shriver:
"Collectively, a long-dominant population [of white folks] is contracting, and maybe by the time we're minorities in our own countries we will have rights, too⁠—among them, at least, the right to feel a little sad."

That's a hard yikes from me.