Kenzie

“ I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity,... See more

The irony is that advertisers who ignore women’s sports for “lack of audience interest” will happily pay an influencer to wear their brand while filming her boyfriend in-between games. WAGs and female athletes are all playing by the same rules, even if only some of them profit from it.

Where weaponized incompetence is the performance of male helplessness, feminized incompetence is its mirror: the performance of effortless devotion. It’s not that these women lack agency or ambition—it’s that pretending not to has always been more profitable.

It’s not about infantilizing women—it’s about noticing how “choice” only ever seems to matter when it’s about protecting a man’s vision.

“But how does the existence or nonexistence of the gods affect me? Why does it matter how the universe came to be?” “Because you’re part of it. Because you exist. And unless you want to only ever be a tiny modicum of existence that doesn’t understand its relation to the grander web of things, you will explore.”

Bran thought about it. “Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?” “That is the only time a man can be brave,” his father told him.

But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.

Though none of the bodies around him stirred, an indistinct haze of sounds hung in the air. Moans of pain, cries of grief. They did not seem like the sounds of victory.