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- A funny thing about curiosity - by Henrik Karlsson2 savers
- On what women want - by Kat Rosenfield1 savers
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I’ve looked for things that match the pattern of how an Interesting Idea is supposed to look. But I’ve forgotten to ask myself what feels interesting, as in, “I can’t explain why, but this car with seventeen headlights is just really fascinating to me.”
A funny thing about curiosity - by Henrik KarlssonYou can't have genuine equality for women while also letting them duck through the trap door of but I didn't mean it, like children, when their choices have unhappy outcomes.
On what women want - by Kat RosenfieldBut I'm more interested in what happens to women when they're cast in this role of society's unreliable narrators: so vulnerable to coercion, and so socialized to please, that even the slightest hint of pressure causes the instantaneous and irretrievable loss of their agency.
On what women want - by Kat RosenfieldTo make Pavlovich a more sympathetic protagonist (and Gaiman a more persuasive villain), the article has to assert that her seemingly self-contradictory behavior is not just understandable but reasonable. Normal. Typical. If Pavlovich lied and said a violent act was consensual (and wonderful), that's just because women do be like that sometimes.
On what women want - by Kat Rosenfield