“People like Jim [a defender of punch-down rape jokes] desperately want to believe that the engines of injustice run on outsized hate—stranger rapes in dark alleys, burning crosses and white hoods—but the reality is that indifference, bureaucracy, and closed-door snickers are far more plentiful fuels.” HateJokesInjusticeSexismRapeSystemic OppressionRape JokesSubtle Biases Book:Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman Source: Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“You can hate someone and love them at the same time. Maybe that's a natural side effect of searching for heroes in a world not built for you.” LoveHateHeroes Book:The Witches Are Coming Source: The Witches Are Coming
“I would want people to know that they don't have to hate their body and don't have to be afraid of it, but that it's also okay to feel uncomfortable with it at times. The body positivity conversation often gets sort of oversimplified and flattened into, "Yay! Everyone has to love everything about their body all the time!" And that's not realistic, that's not how bodies work, that's not how emotions work. It's fine to have these kinds of confusing and conflicting feelings.” PeopleKindFeelingsHateEmotionOkayPositivityUncomfortableRealisticConfusing Author:Lindy West
“I didn't stop hating my body because my body changed; I stopped hating my body because my mind changed. I realized that the beauty standards I'd grown up striving and failing to meet were artificial and arbitrary, and I could choose to simply say "no" and define my own value.” MindValuesHateFailingChangedStriveI RealizedStop Hating Author:Lindy West
