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brooke
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the normal fuck by a normal man is taken to be an act of invasion and ownership undertaken in a mode of predation: colo-nializing, forceful (manly) or nearly violent; the sexual act that by its nature makes her his.
— Feb 05, 2026 11:45AM
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brooke
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in a world of male power—penile power—fucking is the essential sexual experience of power and potency and possession (...)
— Feb 06, 2026 12:12PM
brooke
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the tenderness is the inner violence transformed by love and self-knowledge into complex and compassionate passion; and the passion is gentle in that it does not destroy.
— Feb 04, 2026 09:55AM
brooke
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being “dead folks,” in baldwin’s world, is nothing so simple as being white. being dead is being ignorant, refusing to know the truth, especially about oneself. remaining ignorant about oneself through a life of inevitable experience is hard; it requires that one refuse to know anything about the world around one, especially who is dying there and why and when and how.
— Feb 03, 2026 05:43AM
brooke
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slavery is in the exploitation itself, any kind of forced labor that is done because people who are stronger want it done, including forced sex labor by women simply in response to male desire: “‘therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labour of others and should consider it a sin and a shame.’”
— Feb 02, 2026 01:38AM
brooke
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the violence in his marriage—the violence of feeling and the final act of killing—had for him an internal logic and inevitability, because intercourse distorts and ultimately destroys any potential human equality between men and women by turning women into objects and men into exploiters.
— Jan 31, 2026 06:27AM
