June 2013
67 posts
MC: What is your interest in radical feminism? How did you discover it?
JH: I want to preface all of my comments here with the acknowledgment that I don’t identify with radical feminism in its current permutation, and many radical feminists would probably consider me, derisively, to be a…
The way he argues is energizing. Then it’s antagonizing. Then I don’t want to listen. My face becomes mute and inexpressive. I’m staring through the table into infinity like I do in public transport.
He uses purple carrots so the Bolognese would be darker, more monochrome. I don’t know…
“We don’t have to find ourselves beautiful. Beauty is not the one thing that makes us and our bodies worth loving. We don’t have to distort an already fucked-up definition of beauty, and pretend we fit into it, just to feel like we are people worthy of being loved.
…Instead of us working harder on “love your body” and “find your inner beauty”, the rest of the world should be working harder on “stop telling women their bodies are a shameful place to live but that if they’re strong enough, they will learn to embrace that shame.”
