You are Your Own Voyeur

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“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood

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5 thoughts on “You are Your Own Voyeur

  1. Powerful quote. Haunting image. I love your work dealing with day-to-day intensity of life, but I really appreciate this window into the more pervasive (and usually invisible) shit that warps our psyche. Internalized sexism/racism/oppression is very had to see within ourselves. In our polite society, it’s even more debilitating than the external counterparts.

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