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“I used to get annoyed in abstract discussions to hear men tell me: ‘You think such and such a thing because you’re a woman.’ But I know my only defence is to answer, ‘I think it because it is true,’ thereby eliminating my subjectivity; it was out of the question to answer, ‘And you think the contrary because you are a man’, because it is understood that being a man is not a particularity; a man is in his right by virtue of being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong. […] Humanity is male, and man defines woman, not in herself, but in relation to himself.”

the thing about being someone who’s never catcalled is that you start to wonder why like is it because im ugly???