"An essential part of the situation of being a woman is that of living the ever-present possibility that one will be hazed upon as a mere body, as shape and flesh that presents itself as the potential object of another subject’s intentions and manipulationsm rather than as a living manifestation of action and intention… This objectified bodily existence accounts for the self-consciousness of the feminine relation to her body and resulting distance she takes from her body. As a human, she is a transcendence and subjectivity, and cannot live herself as a mere bodily object. Thus, to the degree that she does live herself as mere body, she cannot be in unity with herself, but must take a distance from and exist in discontinuity with her body."
Iris Marion Young, Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory, 1990 (via derbysexual)
charles bukowski
“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”
my good friend mike said it best: “Have you given anything back yet?”
