I love how the female titan is beautiful yet a lot of those features are grotesque. Her “eyeshadow” is exposed muscle around her eyes, her “bronzer” is where her cheeks are perforated to rip open, her dark“lipstick” looks sickly. Her beauty is also her dehumanization and pain.
sex under patriarchy will always be an act of violence. men perceive it to be a form of conquest and dominance, they see penetration as a claim and humiliation. even the language they use shows it.
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
no you're not feral during ovulation, no being a woman doesn't mean that you have an intrinsic urge to nurture, care and reproduce. just because you're suffering from extreme fatigue and burnout due to capitalism doesn't mean having jobs is the problem. women have always worked.
Especially women. We can wake up one day & all our rights will be taken away on a whim but never for men. The Afghan women went to bed one night & woke up the next day as slaves in their own homes & it haunts me everyday.