Roberta Jakab
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Roberta Jakab
The mistake we often make is believing that only hateful ideas can become dangerous when taken to the extreme. But even good ideas – justice, equality, dignity – can rot if forced into the rigidity of fanaticism.
Turning your wound into your compass, into your only compass, means you’ll keep finding enemies where there might have been nuance, and reading violence into places where there might have been care clumsily expressed. It doesn’t make you brave. It makes you brittle.
Feminism, at its root, is radical only in the sense that it insists women are people. That’s it! Not goddesses, not perpetual victims, not vengeful Furies, not pocket-sized political statements designed to make brands feel relevant during Women’s History Month. Just… people. Capable of being brilliant and petty, nurturing and cruel, tender and mani
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We have reached a point where some corners of feminism mistake vulnerability for treason, and interdependence for oppression. As if the goal was to become invulnerable, not human.
Things that I thought are normal, are actually not common, and things I thought are wrong with me, are completely normal. I guess realizing this is part of growing up.
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
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