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This was an interesting read. Surprisingly nonpreachy given the subject; and well worth the time.

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all I’m going to say here is that people need to ask themselves seriously if they’d been born a few generations earlier, would they have been calling nelson mandela a terrorist. if he’d said a few things to the left or right of what they considerable acceptable morally, would they have been saying, well, obviously this is bad, but they shouldn’t be going about it in this way? like be honest. if you’re in opposition to all violence as a form of resistance when peaceful means have not and will not work, be honest about it. but acknowledge that this would have made you in opposition to most every successful (or not) liberation movement to have ever existed, including those now lauded by history, and likely yourself, as some of the greatest feats of human courage, ingenuity, and organisation. if you’ll only say it was worth it many years after the fact then at least admit that to yourself.

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“I am forever denouncing this therapeutic obsession that governs our modern society, scared of living and haunted by death. We must protect ourselves from everything, heal from everything. Nowadays, food, music, painting, hiking… everything is repurposed as a method for healing, for keeping fit, for keeping healthy, when these activities are first and foremost opportunities for pleasure, desire, gratitude, knowledge, wonderment, and bonding with others. Our entire culture, as well as politics, imposes on all citizens this endless and nagging preoccupation with mental and physical health.”

— Jacqueline Kelen, L’Esprit de Solitude

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Bought a thrifted copy of “The Right To Sex” by Amia Srinivasan and am listening to it as I work on my crochet. Thoughts maybe will come soon, if you’ve seen my posts about other books I’ve started and not finished…. 🤫

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"...traditionalists expect women to follow the same roles and occupations that were functional and species-essential in the neolithic. They accept cultural changes by which men have freed themselves from biological necessity. The supplanting of hard physical labor by the labor of machines is considered progress; only women, in their view, are doomed forever so species-service through their biology. To claim that of all human activities only female nurturance is unchanging and eternal is indeed to consign half the human race to a lower state of existence, to nature rather than culture" (20).

From The Creation of Patriarchy, Gerda Lerner, Chapter 1 “Origins

Great quote, very Firestone esque

#feminism #gerda lerner

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Yonic

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goodbye succession (2018-2023) and thank you for giving us the best scene in television history

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What's that poem about the cockroach and the moth where the cockroach is like "I wish I've ever wanted anything the way that moth wanted to burn itself up in that lantern" because we had to read that in high school and it still fucks me up to this day

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#taylor swift

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oh to have been there for this

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of course there are still six episodes left and we do not know what’s going to happen, but right now shiv’s pregnancy feels like one of the biggest disservices done to her character. it’s too obvious and it adds a frankly unnecessary aspect to everything she’s already going through. logan’s death would have been enough to further complicate her and tom’s strained relationship. not to even mention shiv’s obviously problematic relationship to motherhood in general. it just feels like a pointed reference to the nero and sporus storyline and perhaps something that was simply convenient considering sarah snook’s own pregnancy. i truly hope they will treat this storyline in a way that will be interesting and also true to who shiv is as a person, but right now i am disappointed.

#succession #I hate how many female characters in shows are just randomly pregnant for no reason

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This is probably my favorite track on Red

#taylor swift

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#taylor swift

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okay but Treacherous was made for the piano

#taylor swift

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The fact that Aaron was there to play it with her, Tampa really had it all tonight

#taylor swift

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Finally we have YOYOK

#taylor swift

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she really said not only am i not getting married i don’t want anyone else to either

#my queen #taylor swift