Édipo

The separation between mothers and sons is mandated in patriarchy. This is what the Oedipus complex is about: sexualizing the intimacy, placing it under taboo, linking freedom with leaving women and going off with men, and making any woman who resists this separation a virtual Jocasta, Oedipus' "unspeakable mother." Except of course Jocasta didn't resist. She joined Laius, her husband, in wounding and abandoning her son."
Carol Gilligan, The Birth of Pleasure

On cunts

Q: What's the difference between a pussy and a cunt?
A: A pussy is a sweet, juicy, succulent, warm, fun and useful thing. The cunt is the thing that owns it.
[jokes4us.com, "Vagina Jokes"]

"When a woman faces a workplace in which her male peers want to show her she is unwelcome, similar words or images targeting or insulting the vagina will often surface [...]
Of course, cultural and psychological motivations play a part in this form of harassment. But the role of manipulating female stress in targeting the vagina should not be ignored. This behavior — ridiculing the vagina — makes perfect instinctive sense. These acts are often impersonal and tactical — strategies for directing a kind of pressure at women that is not consciously understood but may be widely intuited, and even survive in folk memory, as eliciting a wider neuropsychological "bad stress" response that actually debilitates women."
Naomi Wolf, Vagina

Sleeping with married men

"Maybe I was being too pragmatic about issues that are loaded with guilt, resentment and fear. After all, it’s far easier to talk theoretically about marriage than to navigate it. But my attitude is that if my spouse were to need something I couldn’t give him, I wouldn’t keep him from getting it elsewhere, as long as he did so in a way that didn’t endanger our family.

[...] We all go through phases of wanting it and not wanting it. I doubt most women avoid having sex with their husbands because they lack physical desire in general; we are simply more complex sexual animals. Which is why men can get an erection from a pill but there’s no way to medically induce arousal and desire in women.

[...] I am not saying the answer is non-monogamy, which can be rife with risks and unintended entanglements. I believe the answer is honesty and dialogue, no matter how frightening. Lack of sex in marriage is common, and it shouldn’t lead to shame and silence. By the same token, an affair doesn’t have to lead to the end of a marriage. What if an affair — or, ideally, simply the urge to have one — can be the beginning of a necessary conversation about sex and intimacy?

[...] In the end, I had to wonder if what these men couldn’t face was something else altogether: hearing why their wives no longer wanted to have sex with them. It’s much easier, after all, to set up an account on Tinder."
Aqui


On Modern Love

Falácias. A educação não leva a crescimento económico

https://youtu.be/6YaIk1vBnpI

https://www.theguardian.com/business/video/2016/aug/11/owen-jones-talks-to-ha-joon-chang-austerity-is-based-on-lies-video-interview

On good sex

Rather like a darts player I once interviewed, she believes that women who don't get good sex regularly, who are denied the soothing benefits of dopamine and oxytocin, both stimulated by orgasm, will inevitably be "emotionally irritable". Men who don't indulge in serious and lengthy foreplay, employing what she calls the "Goddess array" to turn their partners on, should ask themselves: "Do I want to be married to a Goddess or a bitch?" (Wolf's favoured terms for the vagina are "Goddess" and "yoni".) She believes that, having come to understand neural wiring, "we should respect the potential for enslavement to sexual love in women".
Aqui

“I think it’s entirely possible that Naomi is overstating the case for emphasis, but when you piss enough people off, you reach a critical threshold for people to be talking about it and working on it,” he said.

Or as the sex therapist Nancy Fish, who is also quoted in the book, put it, “People sometimes have to go to extremes to get people to talk about a topic.”

She added: “In 2012 we’re still living in the Victorian age when it comes to sexuality. Vagina has to be a household word. It should be a topic discussed at the dinner table when you’re having a dinner party.”
Aqui

Goodbye Cuco's Nests / Welcome to the Pan-Optic digital where Big Brother is laughing at you

"No lendário anúncio da Apple que, em 1984, cintilava no ecrã durante a Super Bowl, aquela aparece como uma figura libertadora contra o Estado vigilante de Orwell. Numa grande sala, trabalhadores sem vontade e apáticos escutam, olhando para o ecrã, o discurso fanático do Big Brother. Uma mulher que corre irrompe na sala, perseguida pela polícia do pensamento. Avança sem hesitar e transporta um grande martelo [...]. Carrega decididamente sobre o Big Brother e arremessa ferozmente o martelo contra o ecrã que explode. os homens despertam da sua apatia. Ouve-se uma voz anunciar: "A 24 de janeiro, a Apple Computer lançará o Macintosh. E verás então porque é que 1984 não será como 1984". Ao contrário do que sustenta a mensagem da Apple, o ano de 1984 não assinala o fim do Estado vigilante de Orwell, mas o começo de uma nova sociedade de controle que supera sobejamente a sua eficiência. Comunicação e controle coincidem na totalidade. Cada um de nós é o pan-ótico de si próprio."
Byung-Chul Han, "Psicopolítica"