Sublime

We teach girls shame. Close your legs. Cover yourself. We make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. And so girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. Who silence themselves. Who cannot say what they truly think. Who have turned pretence into an art form.

I’m also quite fond of the word “slut.” It’s a big-time pejorative for most people, but not me. I use the word to designate anyone, male or female, who loves sex and brings a healthily sex-positive attitude to his or her erotic activities.

Long live whores.

and hate and strength, about being beyond good and evil, about how being free from empathy

Women matter. Women are half of us. When you raise every woman to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential; when you