“Men still have everything to say about their sexuality, and everything to write. For what they have said so far, for the most part, stems from the opposition activity/ passivity, from the power relation between a fantasized obligatory virility meant to invade, to colonize, and the consequential phantasm of woman as a “dark continent” to penetrate and to “pacify.” (We know what “pacify” means in terms of scotomizing the other and misrecognizing the self.) Conquering her, they’ve made haste to depart from her borders, to get out of sight, out of body. The way man has of getting out of himself and into her whom he takes not for the other but for his own, deprives him, he knows, of his own bodily territory. One can understand how man, confusing himself with his penis and rushing in for the attack, might feel resentment and fear of being “taken” by the woman, of being lost in her, absorbed, or alone.” SexismPower Of WordsFemminism Book:The Laugh of the Medusa Source: The Laugh of the Medusa
“Perchè mi sento libera di scriverle [le parole]? La mia identità prende forma, si modella - sento che i racconti fioriscono mentre leggo la raccolta del "New Yorker" - sì, quanto i tempi saranno maturi, io sarò tra loro - le poetesse, le autrici.” WritingScrivereFemminism Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles and protect them. This fog abets.” Queer LitSpanglishSocial CritiqueFemminism Book:Creep: Accusations and Confessions Source: Creep: Accusations and Confessions