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pushing myself real hard this semester. love being the daughter of immigrant parents 🥲

that big PHAT A on my final projects all finna be worth it tho!! then imma be free to continue all my drafts 🙏🏾

college is tiring.. I have a million drafts I could start up and post but here I am being lame asf.

I have to study sm tomorrow and I'm so not ready for it but at the same time I can't wait to read philosophy while I make notes and listen to lofi all day

Didn’t Aristotle say that women are “deformed men” (Politeia)? DIdn’t Otto Weininger say that  “no men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them” (Geschlecht und Charakter)? Didn’t Arthur Schopenhauer say that women are “childish, frivolous, short-sighted” and that they are “by nature meant to obey” (Über die Weiber)? Didn’t Thomas Aquinas say that “Woman is subject to man because in the male reason predominates” (Summa Theologica I)? Didn’t Augustine say that “he [man] is by himself the image of God”, whereas women are “merely man’s helpmate”?

I could go on but I think this should suffice for now. The point is that these are the “great men” that have been profoundly influencing Western thought for thousands of years and are quasi-worshipped for their supposed “genius”.

But then, somewhere along the line, one Valerie Solanas comes along, writes one little satire where she doesn’t talk about men in particularly favourable manner and suddenly she’s The Devil?

Am I just a noob philosophy major or is it normal to lose the ability to comprehend paragraphs after 20 minutes of reading philosophy? Like even reading it an extra four times does nothing.