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Bad feminist roxane gay quotes2/8/2024 ~Rape humour is designed to remind women that they are still not quite equal. This is where we should focus this conversation: how men (as readers, critics, and editors) can start to bear the responsibility for becoming better, broader readers.~ ~To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance, and women writers can’t fix that ignorance no matter what kinds of books we write or how those books are marketed. ~All too often, representations of a woman’s strength overlook the cost of that strength, where it rises from, and how it is called upon when needed most.~ ~Writing is cheaper than therapy or drugs.~ While there are certainly many people who understand rape and the damage of rape, we also live in a time that necessitates the phrase “rape culture.” This phrase denotes a culture where we are inundated, in different ways, by the idea that male aggression and violence toward women is acceptable and often inevitable.~ ~We live in a culture that is overly permissive where rape is concerned. ~Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. ~When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.~
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