— "she was a sort of celestial person, who owed her being to poetry.”
elysian fields
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🧵 a common theme that i’ve noticed in roy’s ‘the god of small things’ & allende’s ‘the house of the spirits’ is the working class’ use of sexual violence as a way to symbolically subjugate the children of the bourgeoisie - as a way to gain emotional, not material, hegemony
their inherent innocence and leave a long-lasting, devastating impact on their emotional and psychological wellbeing. this, of course, is criticised by both authors, and federici in ‘caliban and the witch’ where all three echo the sentiment that the weaponisation of
the epitome of patriarchal violence and tyranny within both the domestic household and wider latam. i think the distinction between the unnaturalness of his conduct versus clara’s clearly sets out how his violence and dominance is the only thing keeping him in power
you really don’t want to use the longevity argument to justify pornography (which in this case isn’t even describing pornography) because we can justify many other inhumane practices through the same means
i rate it a 2.5 - the premise is interesting but unfortunately the prose and narration are lacking. it’s clear that the novel intends to provoke empathy by presenting such an apathetic world, but the overly grotesque + readers’ detachment from the narrator dilutes that
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in the pursuit of liberating women we failed to consider that most people get really sad without their daily dose of jerking off to women suffering
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women are being married off as children, their husbands have full control of everything they do women arw just objects for men to own in these countries and this is still happening in 2026, as unfortunate as it is to say you can hide being gay, you can’t hide being a woman.
