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finally on part 2… reading such a detailed synthesis of the extreme physical and mental trauma experienced (basically universally) by women and girls throughout history has got me fucked up

I think for the overwhelming majority of readers, this text would be better in an abridged and annotated version. I wonder if a good one (not done by a man lol) exists?

“For man, there is no hiatus between public and private life: the more he asserts his grasp on the world through action and work, the more virile he looks; human and vital characteristics are merged in him; but women’s own successes are in contradiction with her femininity since the ‘real woman’ is required to make herself object, to be the Other.”
ABSOLUTELY SICKENING

i said “i need to focus more on my german studies” and then picked up 800 pages of feminist philosophy