Saturday, October 24, 2009

the female complaint

Everyone knows what the female complaint is: women live for love, and love is a gift that keeps on taking.

- Lauren Berlant, The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture


It does matter that I decided to stop giving.
It does matter that I will never live for him.
The bastard keeps taking.
And I keep complaining.

According to Berlant, the personal is general. If she is right, then you must understand.

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