Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain
sometimes, in the small, secret part of myself where i tuck away my worst impulses, i wished they had gone just a little further, wronged me just a little bit more clearly, because maybe then i wouldn’t feel quite so crazy about hurting so much. without laws broken or lines crossed, women’s pain is madness.
— Rayne Fisher-Quann Nov 21, 2021
The Pain Scale
Exploring the complexities of pain, measurement, and subjective experiences, the text delves into the philosophical, mathematical, and personal aspects of suffering, questioning societal perceptions and the validity of pain scales.
snreview.orgMaybe what’s at work is a kind of interior slut-shaming—if I suggest that such a damaging moment was the cause of my sexual activeness, then I disavow any good feelings I might have around my own sexuality. In other words, victimhood came to shape my own concept of my sexuality. When I sat down to write a memoir of my adolescent sex life, for
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