When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve never been seriously worried that I would be attacked, it does make me feel unguarded, unprotected.
Regardless of his motive, the stranger on the street makes an assumption based on my physique: He presumes I might be receptive to his unpoetic, unsolicited comments. (Would he allow a friend to say “Nice tits” to his mother? His sister? His daughter?) And although I should know better, I, too, equate my body with my soul and the result, at least sometimes, is a deep shame of both.
Rape is a thousand times worse: The ultimate theft of self-control, it often leads to a breakdown in the victim’s sense of self-worth. Girls who are molested, for instance, often go on to engage in risky behavior—having intercourse at an early age, not using contraception, smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. This behavior, it seems to me, is at least in part because their self-perception as autonomous, worthy human beings in control of their environment has been taken from them.
Tag: sexuality society violence rape culture entitlement sexual-abuse abuse rape-culture sexual-violence harassment sexual-harassment hypersexualization
Hollywood-Nobody's impressed by anybody because they're all too consumed with trying to cover up their own shortcomings. Hollywood is a microcosm of a world of lazy moral ideals and social indifference where every man is trying to convince himself he's a king.
J. Matthew NespoliTag: morality hollywood entitlement lazy social-indifference
He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.
Ken FollettTag: politics work entitlement reward
Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona.
T.F. HodgeTag: self self-help sacrifice persona entitlement person rumors forsake
What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.
Brené BrownTag: parenting privilege gratitude entitlement gifts-of-imperfect-parenting
Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.
J.S.B. MorseTag: politics liberty freedom capitalism government entitlement socialism libertarian libertarianism
The eye of true equality often seems to have some degree of disrespect for the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty to the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty, although in reality, it's simply irrespectiveness.
Criss JamiTag: equality inequality respect privilege entitlement accomplished disrespect lofty irrespectiveness
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