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I had heard of Virginia before only in passing, a crazy ex with whom things had not ended well. I was accustomed to this lazy shorthand for men who dislike the emotions of women.

~ Alana Massey

Alana Massey Funny

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart.” I struggle to think of any line of thinking more linked to being a socialized female than to consider the declaration of simply existing to feel like a form of bragging. But that, of course, is the plight of the feeling girl: to be told again and again that her very existence is something not worth declaring.

~ Alana Massey

Alana Massey Feminism Gender Plath Women

I decided that being called “crazy” by a man was not an insult but a challenge. It gives the woman an opportunity to say, “Crazy? Oh, I’ll show you fucking crazy.

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Alana Massey Crazy Empowering Empowering Women Feminism Gender Humor Sexism Women

Sylvia was an early literary manifestation of a young woman who takes endless selfies and posts them with vicious captions calling herself fat and ugly. She is at once her own documentarian and the reflexive voice that says she is unworthy of documentation. She sends her image into the world to be seen, discussed, and devoured, proclaiming that the ordinariness or ugliness of her existence does not remove her right to have it.

~ Alana Massey

Alana Massey Feminism Gender Plath Society Sylvia Plath Women

I’ve come to see “Bitches be crazy” as less a statement by men that women are crazy or even a reappropriated statement by women defending their own madness. Instead, I see the phrase and imagine a colon after “bitches,” rendering it a command to other women, a battle cry. It is a way of saying, “We took back ‘bitch’ already. And now we have come for ‘crazy.

~ Alana Massey

Alana Massey Crazy Ex Power

Boys often have permission to become men without the forfeiture of their desirability. And so these men write stories that grasp at girls who are ghosts twice over: first by being dead and second by being shallow shadows of actual girls, the assorted fragments of men's aging imaginations rather than the deep and dimensioned creatures that real girls are.

~ Alana Massey

Alana Massey Boys Ghosts Girls Masculinity The Virgin Suicides

They know too well the violent hypnosis of those who hope to possess them-- men who can smell the blood on the places where a woman is breaking.

~ Alana Massey

Alana Massey Fiona Apple Infatuation Lana Del Rey Obsession Toxic Masculinity Woundedness
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