SOFIA QUINTERO

Reflections of an Ivy League Homegirl

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what you said was:
"i don't respect women who don't respect themselves"
what you meant was:
"i and society as a whole hold women up to ridiculous respectability standards directly relating to the "purity" of said women while hypersexualizing them at the same time and if you are a woman and don't fit my awkward monolith of criteria then i refuse to acknowledge your humanity"
what i heard was:
"hi i'm a misogynist piece of shit, please punch me in my face"

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The man, who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old self to survive. Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the suffering and pass courageously through it. Only to the extent that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within him. In this lies the dignity of daring.
― Karlfried Graf Durckheim, The Way of Transformation: Daily Life as Spiritual Practice