“You have beautiful eyes, he said all of a sudden. I hated compliments like that, compliments that carved out one particular part of your body and put it on a platter for viewing. It always took a while for me to reabsorb that body part afterward, to add it back to the whole. The best kind of compliment to give me was something vague, plausible. You’re all right. Or, Don’t worry, it gets better.” ComplimentsAlexandra KleemanIntimationsBody PartsObjectifiedThe Male Gaze Book:Intimations: Stories Source: Intimations: Stories
“Why does the twenty-first century feel like this? Like men are talking into their favorite phonograph & the phonograph is me receiving their baritone: You're so exotic Watch out, men, says my violin I am a Royal Bengal man-eating tiger” Racism21st CenturyVirginOut Of PlaceAnalicia SoteloExoticizedObjectified Book:Virgin Source: Virgin