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Whenever I mention women’s cruelty toward each other to women socially, I hear a reflexive blaming of patriarchy, an abstract, immeasurable, and unfalsifiable concept. This is concerning because we do have control over our own behavior toward others, and it seems leftist ideology wants to studiously ignore it. You can choose not to be a bully. We d
... See moreInvisible, soft social control is the norm.
Female social control is soft, indirect, insidious, and corrosive. I know there are other women out there like me who see clearly but are generally deemed “too sensitive” or worse, paranoid. The uncomfortable pattern: women deploy soft, deniable control as a social strategy. This is a structural phenomenon
... See moreYour womanhood is not being threatened by the tiny percentage of trans people in our society. It is, however, threatened by the lawmakers using your shared bigotry to take away your reproductive rights, criminalize abortions, and ignoring the gender based violence women face.
But it trains women to erase ourselves altogether by teaching us that we owe more than the external things owed by men—money, labor, houses. Women owe all our intimacy—our care and emotional investment, the insides of our bodies.
Kate Hamilton • Mad Wife
Maria Popova • Bad Feminist: Roxane Gay on the Complexities and Blind Spots of the Equality Movement
In tracing toward the queer, I am tempted to suggest that autistics embrace the death drive, that we roll with our entelechial destruction and kaboom all the things.
Melanie Yergeau • Authoring Autism
our culture has configured women’s liberty as corrosion, and for a long time, there was no way for a woman to be both free and good.