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"Shulamith Firestone talks about romance and love as a way that women are depoliticized," Elif tells me, referring to Firestone's work The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution.
"It's something that wastes their time and keeps them out of the political sphere and tied up with problems that are private and thus not political.”
— Aug 18, 2025 07:56PM
"It's something that wastes their time and keeps them out of the political sphere and tied up with problems that are private and thus not political.”
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"Shulamith Firestone talks about romance and love as a way that women are depoliticized," Elif tells me, referring to Firestone's work The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution.
"It's something that wastes their time and keeps them out of the political sphere and tied up with problems that are private and thus not political.”
— Aug 18, 2025 07:56PM
"It's something that wastes their time and keeps them out of the political sphere and tied up with problems that are private and thus not political.”
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…realize that being a "warrior" is the only socially acceptable way to deal with debilitating illness. We want our sick people to inspire us, battle diseases, tough it out when faced with adversity…we constantly use the language of war to talk about physical phenomena over which we have very little control: beat cancer, fight through the pain. Where does that leave those of us who are just too tired?
— Aug 17, 2025 01:17PM
