"But what most men don’t realize is that all women in our society are on the receiving end of UNWANTED sexual attention at some point in their lives, and most of them get it a lot. Women are catcalled on the street. They’re harassed in bars, groped in clubs, and whistled at in the grocery store. They’re told that they need to be sexy to be valued and then they’re attacked as sluts. Simply put, women put up with sexual intrusion for most of their lives, in big ways and small. It happens everywhere and most men have no idea how much of an impact it has. I’ve heard quite a few men say that women should just take it as a compliment. Ironically, these are often the same guys who lose it if a man cruises them, winks at them, or simply appears to be sexually interested in them. Seems like a double standard to me.”
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Charlie Glickman"
Posted 10 months ago
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“I said what if instead of underarm hair at puberty girl;s got two little wings budding on their backs and all of their friends and sisters and mothers and aunts and grandmothers praised the day they appeared.
And steadily, year by year instead of girls getting more hair under their arms and down below and instead of larger breasts their wings would grow.
They would start off downy and colorless but end up the velvet green of a peacock’s tail or budgerigar blue or the crimson of a king parrot. Every girl would be different. And in the afternoon, after school, they would practice flying in their backyards.”
-Jenny, from ‘The Anatomy of Wings’, by Karen Foxlee.
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Posted 10 months ago
"The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear Brothers [and Sisters], we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.”
- Thomas Merton"
Posted 10 months ago
“Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.”
Posted 11 months ago
