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And then you can’t even say shit about bc people start trying to put you in a jacket and shit. Like omg it’s so strict???

One of my favorite things about biology is that there are so many diagrams like this that look like shitposts if you remove any and all context from them

From Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky.

file under: poster i desperately need to hang in my living room

sweeney and turpin both view the women who are supposedly at the center of their conflict as extensions of themselves rather than their own people. turpin abuses lucy and johanna, and todd, who supposedly loves these women so much that avenging them becomes his life's purpose, fails to recognize lucy when she doesn't align with his idealized memories of his "beautiful" wife (it's notable that sweeney and turpin use very similar language to describe these women and that "pretty women" is their big duet). and he actively sabotages anthony's attempt to rescue johanna in order to achieve his revenge, which he is supposedly enacting on johanna's behalf. both these women are alive and entirely within his reach, and if sweeney truly cared about them as much as he claims he does, he would have reunited with them. but they are more useful to him as women in the fridge, as a suitable motivation for all his anger and rage and violence than they'll ever be as living breathing people. violence against women is simply an excuse for him to live out his own violent power fantasies, to take power over a man who he feels disempowered and humiliated him by taking "his" women. the women themselves are totally inconsequential.