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"Across wealthy nations, the percentage of women aged 25-29 who are unmarried has doubled in the past twenty years, exceeding 40% in many countries. Rates of gray divorce, of people over 50, roughly doubled between 1990 and 2015. "this article is 🔥https://sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/26-decentering-men-is-not-misandry
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"What we are calling “decentering” today has often been built from sheer necessity across generations. When we frame decentering as a lifestyle trend, we ignore and erase the women who have been doing it forever."
(DIR) Post #B687gHPWxmRoJIgJgO by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
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"Masculine identity, in theory a biological state that is fixed, is really an achievement that has to be earned, publicly performed, and reconfirmed continuously. It has to be proved over and over.This means, for instance, that a single perceived failure — maybe a woman who outperforms a man or withholds deference or a person who doesn’t conform to hegemonic cis hetero norms — registers as a threat, propelling aggressive and disproportionate reactions."
(DIR) Post #B687gIvTKVal0edL6m by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
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"queer and trans people’s lives are threatening male supremacy for the same reason women’s independence is threatening: all refuse the terms on which patriarchal masculinity depends. You cannot perpetuate precarious manhood without the gender binary. But to have the binary you have to police and enforce it at all times. The violence we live with follows from this logic"
(DIR) Post #B687gKNVvjcJVulFSK by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
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"We are living through the largest exodus from patriarchy and patriarchal systems ever, a revolution in slow motion. I know things feel bleak, but it’s important to register what this means and to understand today’s conservative agenda as a response to a project that is working even as it is under profound and coordinated attack."So much truth in this.
(DIR) Post #B687gLoqZb4hyyYahM by susankayequinn@wandering.shop
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btw I am reading the author's book RAGE BECOMES HER right now and just put her new one ALL WE WANT IS EVERYTHING on hold at the library