King Kong Theory

The only good consumer is an anxious consumer.

To get by without approval, to wield power aggressively, with no simpering, no apologizing, because there aren’t many opponents prepared to congratulate you on thrashing them.
Motherhood has become t

equivalent of Ikea for childcare, an equivalent of Microsoft for housework? The public sphere has remained resolutely ma

Shocking and profoundly revealing fact: the feminist revolution of the 1970s didn’t result in any restructuring of childcare arrangements. Nor in dealing with housework. Unpaid work = women’s work.

One way or another, women must be made to feel like failures. Whatever women do, someone feels obliged to prove that we’ve gone about it the wrong way.

Since I wanted a man’s life, I lived a man’s life. So the feminist revolution really did take place. People need to

Ours has always been the gender of endurance, of courage, of resistance. Not that we had a choice

It’s not about pitting the miserable gains by women against the miserable gains by men, it’s about blowing the whole fucking thing sky high

Vernon Subutex trilogy

The terrified silence of delicate little boys