Jessica Valenti Quotes

But No One Wants To Listen To Our Sad Stories Unless They Are Smoothed Over With A Joke Or Nice Melody. And Even Then, Not Always. No One Wants To Hear A Woman Talking Or Writing About Pain In A Way That Suggests That It Doesn't End. Without A Pat Solution, Silver Lining, Or Happy Ending We're Just Complainers -- Downers Who Don't Realize How Good We Actually Have It.

Men's Pain And Existential Angst Are The Stuff Of Myth And Legends And Narratives That Shape Everything We Do, But Women's Pain Is A Backdrop- A Plot Development To Push The Story Along For The Real Protagonists. Disrupting That Story Means We're Needy Or Shellfish, Or Worst Of All, Man-haters - As If After All Men Have Done To Women Over The Ages The Mere Act Of Not Liking Them For It Is Most Offensive.

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