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“When it comes to fat, there has to be a reason… people need an explanation for how a woman could lose such control over her body”
*screeches into the void*

“The bigger I made my body the safer I felt” my dear girl oh noooo

Oooof the discussion about how gaining weight makes your body more significant and noticeable while also becoming more invisible hits just a LITTLE TOO CLOSE TO HOME

“We have to be more interested in making things better, than just being right.”
How We All Lose is definitely my favorite essay of the book thus far and this one is definitely still (if not more) pertinent now

“We can take comfort that none of these people [with horrifying definitions on what they view as permissible rape] are in power anymore.”
Hi Dr Gay I’m from the future and need to hear your 2026 addendum on this one

“Women more often than not are the recipient of god’s ‘intentions’ and must also bear the burdens of these ‘intentions.”
Say it again a little louder for the people in the back

In fairness, this book did come out in 2014 so it’s not fair to do the good place meme of the “yeah yeah the Cool Girl Monologue from Gone Girl, we’ve all seen it.”

James woods? We’re citing James woods??

What am I supposed to do with the phrase “serious Fanny packs, bulging with mystery”
It will haunt me forever

As always is the way with McCarthy: yep, that was certainly a book that was written

Damn was Raphael also a former Disney employee because this is every backstage conversation at costuming or break rooms

Oh noo Debbie is too sweet for this world. I need to give someone a minions watch too

“I have a girlfriend and she is so blue/Da-ba-dee, da-ba-di, da-ba-dee, da-ba-di”

“Broodingly silent”?

It’s not this book’s fault at all but I’m just so so over the “only one bed” trope. It’s presence in almost every romance now makes it just procedural at this point

Personal points off only because I hate the pet name “baby” in any serious context
Bring back the “dolls”

I’m going to politely ignore the title and the doomed narrative and assume this will end with them living in one of the painted ladies in SF

Maaaaan I wanna go to the wink so badly

I can recognize hermetic seals too girl, you’re not special

“You know what? Let’s skip the description”
??? Let’s not?

Evil societies masquerading as good societies committing murder of unspeakable beings in Christmas Eve??
This. Book. Has. Everything.

“A man who needed his dog knew not to kick it too hard” godDAMN

“She’ll be a lady again in spring” bro same

Did it though……?

Have we also considered that she’s not this obsessed with father complexes in American Christianity and was instead writing biblical yaoi whump poems?

Oorrrr her ego died on the altar of being in lesbians with Susan

Okay, I do agree that rage is at the core of the demon lover

Surely, this woman trapped in a loveless marriage that she didn’t choose in the 1910s must have been psychosexually obsessed with the Ultimate Shadow Daddy and not the disquiet of knowing she’s seen as less of a whole person within the society she lives?

Me, Emily Dickinson, and Karlach Cliffgate all holding our bomb of untapped white hot rage in our boobs and being a little queer about it

Orrrrr hear me out Freud: she doesn’t feel attraction to men outside of a celestial example of a father-god because she is interested in women?