imdat celeste    [witchzard]Jun 26

"Not all men," he casually argues, tossing a chocolate into his mouth.

She doesn't blink. Instead, her fingers curl around the box of chocolates between them, and she smiles. "Okay. But if I take this box of chocolates, poison one in front of you, shake the box, and offer you one", she raises an eyebrow, "would you take it?"

The chocolate in his mouth suddenly feels too thick, too sweet. A disbelieving laugh escapes him. "Good lord, you are crazy."

"Oh no no, I'm not crazy," she says trying to fight the smirk at his reaction. "I'm just working with the numbers. When one in four is poisoned, you check every piece."

l excerpts from a novel I will never write

~~~ thenevernovel, Instagram

Show threadZappesJun 26

@ics As I have no interest whatsoever in any human being except my wife for company, I'll say OK. Assume that I'm basically Trump, if that provides you with a way to live your best life, which I wholeheartedly want you to do.

But how can we motivate men to better themselves if the explicit policy is that it will make no difference whatsoever for them and they'll stay enemies of womankind either way?

Show threadimdat celeste    [witchzard]

@zappes I ... don't understand what you are trying to say.

In fact, being a kind and decent person, and being a feminist, helps men a lot - maybe even more than it helps women.

The patriarchy is not a boon for men; it helps a few men to grab power and hold on to it. But it is actually the hell that all men live in.

Patriarchy, misogyny are really bad for women, but they are equally horrible for men - especially because most men are duped to believe that it is in their own interest, which it absolutely isn't.

Jun 26 at 1:07pmWeb
Show threadZappesJun 26

@ics I fully agree with that, really. And I do what I can to be a decent person because I think that‘s valuable in an of itself.

I‘m just frustrated by the fact that this whole thing smells like the Middle East. Very few bad people manage to make very many normal people suffer, and the surrounding rhetoric makes reconciliation look less likely with every day that passes. It makes me sad.