İşe yaramaları gerektiği söylenen kuralları takip ettiğimizden, işe yaramayan şeyleri yapmaya devam ediyoruz. Bizi istediğimiz yöne götürmese de, haklı olduğumuzu söyleyen kurallara uyarak belirli bir pozisyonu savunmaya devam ederiz. Hoş olmayan şeyleri hatırlamanın iyi olmadığını söyleyen kurallar nedeniyle unutamayacağımız şeyleri unutmaya çalışırız.
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... şu an içinde yaşadığımız ve ''senin ihtiyacın var ve onu ben giderebilirim. '' demenin bir bahşetme, bir alçaltma olarak algılandığı ''ve sonuç olarak bir utanç , küçük düşme hissiyle dile getirildiği'' bu topluma ne demeli?
Başka bir insana yardımı dokunacak bir eylemi gerçekleştirme yetisine sahip olduğum gerçeğini olumlamak varken, başkalarının ihtiyaçları neden benim için bir iktidar kaynağı olsun ki ...
Marx, birbirimizle insan olarak ilişki kurduğumuzda , yalnızca başkalarının bizim etkinliklerimizin sonuçlarına ihtiyaç duyduğunu anlamamızdan dolayı birbirimiz için üreteceğimiz ve yararlı bir şey başarıyor olduğumuz bilgisinden zevk ve memnuniyet duyacağımızı ileri sürer.
Bilim, kuramlarla gelişir. Kuramlar, araştırmalarla üretilen, en üst düzeydeki bilgilerdir. Ve ancak yeni bilgilerle yanlışlanabilirler. Hiçbir kuram
son şeklini almış sayılmaz. Her kuram, yeni bilgiler ve gözlemler doğrultusunda güçlenir; eğer yetersiz kalırsa ayıklanır ve yerine daha geçerli görünen konur. Yıkılamaz hale gelen ve herkes tarafından kabul edilen bir kuram, "yasa" olarak adlandırılır.
Ours has always been the gender of endurance, of courage, of resistance. Not that we had a choice.
True courage. Facing up to what is new. Possible. Better. Employment is collapsing? The family is imploding? Good! This automatically challenges notions of masculinity. More good news. We’ve already had enough of this shit.
Feminism is a revolution, not a restructuring of marketing guidelines, not some vague promotion for cocksucking or partner-swapping, this is not just about increasing supplementary income. Feminism is a collective venture, for women, for men, and others. A revolution that is well underway. A vision of the world, a choice. It’s not about pitting the miserable gains by women against the miserable gains by men, it’s about blowing the whole fucking thing sky-high.
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There is a kind of strength that is neither masculine nor feminine, one that intimidates, terrifies, reassures. An ability to say no, to impose one’s opinion, not to duck the issue.
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It’s like they’re scared to admit to themselves what they actually want: to fuck each other. Men love men. They spend half their lives telling us how much they love women, but we know they’re lying. They love each other. They fuck each other by fucking women, a lot of them are thinking about their friends while their cock is in some cunt. They watch each other in the movies, giving each other the plum roles, they see themselves strutting, powerful, they can’t believe how strong, how ripped, how brave they are. They write for each other, congratulate each other, support each other.
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Women have endured not only the history of men, like men, but their own specific oppression. Of staggering brutality. Hence this modest proposal: fuck the lot of you, fuck your condescension toward us, your displays of force backed up by the collective, your ad hoc protection, your manipulative attempts to cast yourselves as victims who find women’s emancipation difficult to deal with. What is difficult to deal with, even today, is being a woman, and having to put up with your shit.
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Everything fun is masculine, everything that makes it possible to survive is masculine, everything that lets you gain ground is masculine. It hasn’t really changed—the only notable progress in the past forty years is that now we’re allowed to support them financially. Because working to pay the rent is too limiting for men who are artists, thinkers, complex, terribly fragile creatures.
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Being neurotic, now that’s feminine. Selfeffacing. A good listener. Not a brilliant intellectual. Just clever enough to understand what some foppish dickhead is talking about. Gossiping is feminine. Anything that doesn’t leave a trace.
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Any skanky, balding, boozeaddled, potbellied fucktard is entitled to make vicious comments about the physical attributes of girls he doesn’t find sexy, or sleazy comments if he’s frustrated that he hasn’t got a chance of fucking her. These are the prerogatives of his sex. Men want to palm us off with the sleaziest sexist shit as though it’s noble and instinctive. But not many men get to be Bukowski; most are just run-of-the-mill scumbags.
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After several years of diligent, genuine research, I finally came to a conclusion: womanhood is whoredom. The art of ass-licking. You can dress it up as seduction, tart it up as glamour. It’s not exactly a sport that requires great skill. For the most part, it just means behaving like you’re inferior. Walk into a room, check to see whether there are any men present, do your best to please them. Don’t talk too loud. Don’t make categorical statements. Don’t spread your legs and get comfortable when you sit down. Don’t be peremptory. Don’t talk about money. Don’t hanker after power. Don’t seek a position of authority. Don’t strive for glory. Don’t laugh too loud. Don’t be too funny. Pleasing men is a complex art that involves erasing everything that concerns power.
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