To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
We don’t have to try to live, since life is fatally given to us. For a long time, many people have suspected that life and living beings are two separate things. Life will live itself whether you like it or not … It’s likely that of all our feelings, the only one that is not truly ours is hope. Hope belongs to life, it’s life defending itself.
Julio Cortázar, Rayuela
… Do you know
what the message of Western
civilization is? I am alone.
Eileen Myles, “An American Poem”
“If feminists really cared about equality, they’d be addressing all the inequality that faces men. Like, why do feminists only care about breast cancer and not prostate cancer? Why aren’t feminists advocating for single dads? Why won’t women sleep with me when I’m a really nice guy and I’ve made a particular effort to be nice to them, particularly? Until feminism can answer that, I’m afraid I don’t really see it as being legitimate.”
This is the last bastion of the misogynist’s argument – their self fancying checkmate, if you will. What these people are basically saying is that, despite the overwhelming evidence of entrenched sexual, physical and ideological oppression of women, the only way feminism can really be fair is if it first identifies and solves all of the ways in which the patriarchy also oppresses men.
To be more specific, women who agitate for their own liberation are only allowed to do so once they’ve fixed all the things that make men sad, thus making them stronger and even more powerful.
— from “How to spot a misogynist,” by Clementine Ford. (via jessisays)
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This is 100% accurate. “Oh hey ladies, we’ve been oppressing you for the past several millennia. WHAT ABOUT OUR RIGHTS?”
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They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Some Simple Love Stories: The Disadvantages of Being a Man
I keep having this conversation with people:
There is no such thing as sexism against men. There is no such thing as racism against white people. Racism, sexism, and classism are INSTITUTIONAL and SYSTEMATIC forms of discrimination on the basis of race, gender and class. People of color, women,…
“I’m not an unhealthy person and I feel like one of the most tiring parts of being fat and being proud of it is… you do a lot of proving yourself all the time. It’s really interesting to me that people will look at a thin person and go, ‘That’s a healthy person’. I want to go, ‘Come open my refrigerator and look and then let’s talk about what you think is so bad’. To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes… some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That’s crazy. But that’s ‘okay’ because you look healthier.” - Beth Ditto
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You sew words to reap the stars.
René Crevel
