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Kitten hanging from curtain, 2004

human interior life & behaviors start to take strange turns once they stop being anchored by things such as the hope or expectation of truly reciprocal human contact. because you still have that basic stratum of consciousness that can still do all the things that consciousness can do, but it’s just proceeding in any conceivable direction, it’s not orbiting anything, it’s like a plant growing in zero gravity

theredbloggings

“Feminine hesitancy and perceptions of women’s incompetence are part and parcel of rape culture because they help men win verbal and physical fights with women. Even those who insist on men’s incomparable brawn cannot deny that women’s sight, hearing, hands, and reflexes are every bit as competent as men’s. Differences in size and strength become irrelevant to two people who are armed. This is what makes the female fear of guns so ironic, and revealing. One need not be big or strong to shoot a gun. And yet many women are so doubtful of their ability to handle and use a firearm effectively as they are of their ability to kick and hit potently. Women have learned a discomfort around power that could exert force over another person. This education is clearly not a result of the putative fact of women’s physical weakness. The very ease with which women take to firearms renders the many associations between masculinity and guns all the more suspect. Women are afraid to fight for the same reasons they are afraid of guns—in either case, women’s size or strength is far less relevant than the social investment in a female body that does not exert coercive force.”

—Martha McCaughey, Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women’s Self-Defense (1997), pg. 94-95

#to read

hervesevenophotographie

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apocryphics

Steiner

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holespoles

nakkusu

なっくす

boooook

「蛇行する川のほとり」恩田陸中央公論新社読了。

givenmyheart-achangeofmood

"we've lost so many players......" expansion got you thinking they DIED. and they're in hamilton

#'quit telling everyone I'm dead. I went to las vegas'#'sometimes I can still hear her voice.'

dozydawn

themonstrousother

A dutiful daughter disguises herself as a knight and takes up the sword to protect her father's noble reputation and her kings realm. Whether we think of the Chinese or French iterations of maiden warrior tales, the figure-is fraught with tensions. On the one hand the maiden warrior demonstrates the capacities of women to live and fight honorably. Maiden warrior tales grant the heroine ample agency, demonstrating her physical and intellectual strengths; as such, they hint at the arbitrary nature of gender norms in the societies that give rise to such tales. On the other hand the maiden warrior is only allowed to transgress the norms assigned to women for the sake of maintaining patriarchal and monarchical power. In other words, she defends a patriarchal social and political order that upholds, paradoxically, gender norms that limit women's agency. When the heroine restores order by the end of the tale, she abandons her masculine attire to resume her position as a woman, either beside a prince or king through marriage or within the domestic space, taking up the spindle. In both cases she forever relinquishes her sword.

The Revolutionary Undoing of the Maiden Warrior in Riyoko Ikeda's Rose of Versailles and Jacques Demy's Lady Oscar, Anne e. DuggAn