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literally no romantic gesture will ever be more touching and beautiful than that scene in the handmaiden when sookhee destroys hideko’s uncle’s library, ripping to shreds the things he had used to abuse her, drowning them in ink, taking those disgusting symbols of the male gaze and SHATTERING them.. that’s the epitome of true love

sosuperawesome

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dashiellfaireborn

You must continue your search. You know it in your heart.

thesecondgender

“I used to get annoyed in abstract discussions to hear men tell me: ‘You think such and such a thing because you’re a woman.’ But I know my only defence is to answer, ‘I think it because it is true,’ thereby eliminating my subjectivity; it was out of the question to answer, ‘And you think the contrary because you are a man’, because it is understood that being a man is not a particularity; a man is in his right by virtue of being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong. […] Humanity is male, and man defines woman, not in herself, but in relation to himself.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949, ed. 2009, introduction, p. 5)

bigbardafree

the thing about being someone who’s never catcalled is that you start to wonder why like is it because im ugly???

and then you realize that youre judging your worth by whether or not you are objectifiable to a man and thats so fucked up like honestly its so fucked up

but the worst part about the patriarchy is that it still sits at the back of your mind regardless like “nobody thinks youre pretty because they dont see you as a sex object” like somehow thats a desirable thing and it fucks me up