A catcall is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The purity myth is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The fetishization of female purity in a world where catcalls are an acceptable form of communication telegraphs one thing very clearly:
“Women, stop sexualizing yourselves—that’s our job, and you’re taking all the fun out of it.”
The sexualization of women is only appealing if it’s nonconsensual. Otherwise it’s “sluttiness,” and sluttiness is agency and agency is threatening.
A dairy allergy would be traumatic HOWEVER if my only dairy allergy symptom is weird face eczema I will keep eating cheese and moisturizing my face every hour. Dairy allergy be damned.
I really just want a beer while I write this book report (who writes book reports in grad school? me, I guess.) but then I still won’t be done with an hour and I’ll be so much more tired than I already am. But I still want one.
It helped a lot when I realised that “book reviews” are essentially book reports, but with some mentions of “strength of thesis” and “evaluation of sources”…
This isn’t a book review/lit review. This is a straight up “Summarize the book as a whole and three specific chapters” book report. A lit review I could deal with. Those actually require some analysis and brain power. This is just busy work.
