"A woman must trim, wax, and shave, then put on shoes, a top, and do her hair. One day it’s sexy when you women eye shadow; the next, no one understands why women wear so much makeup. ‘I just want a t-shirt and jeans girl,’ I’m sure you’ve heard. At a party all the guys will hoot and hollar at two girls to make out because it’s sexy, but if the women cheer on two guys to make out it’s gay and nasty. Women are socialized into a dependent role and it causes them to constantly be at the whims of the dominant male social class - and if you succumb to this patriarchal definition of who you are, then you cannot possibly have an opinion on the affairs of women. If you are provided for because that is what your environment tells you to be and how it subordinates you, now you are spoiled, good-for-nothing, complain too much, and just need some dick. If you dress up because it makes you feel good, then you are shamed for sporting your body for others when you belong to whoever has decided that you are his to own. Dress down, though, and now something must be wrong, you must be terrible in bed, you’re just hiding your gross body, and you most definitely will not have sex with Mr. Stranger so you might as well go home and try again."
Jesse Lawson
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