This perception of girlhood as carnivorous seems to dialogue with the perception of men that women can be either object or food. Who'll devour the other first then?
"Sometimes I’m unsure if girlhood ever ends, or if it just sits inside of us forever, festering like some sort of disease." I feel this so much. I'm beginning my 20s and I can't stop thinking about my childhood. It's something so intangible, but something I wish so deeply I could return to.
Goodness. I was quite literally just messaging a friend saying, “I just want to create and destroy.” All in the name of eternal girlhood, that I feel like I’m falling from as I turned 40 recently.
this brought me back to how I felt as a teenager. 15 years are a decade and a half of choked tears and ignored pleads, almost no one seems to get that. almost no one ever considers that yes, these things are devastating when you have only lived the harsh part and you're not old enough to understand things can change.
thank you so much for putting my thoughts into words. I'm trying to embrace aging as a good thing now. so altho I'm still carnivorous, I can now make room for myself to heal.
i feel like girlhood never ends. it was with you ever since you were a child and i think it sticks until you are old. what surrounds it and what it is born with it (friendships, rituals, objects, etc.) will for sure break, but the core (which i consider to be that latent, uneasy feeling) wont vanish until one dies.
This perception of girlhood as carnivorous seems to dialogue with the perception of men that women can be either object or food. Who'll devour the other first then?
So true!
"Sometimes I’m unsure if girlhood ever ends, or if it just sits inside of us forever, festering like some sort of disease." I feel this so much. I'm beginning my 20s and I can't stop thinking about my childhood. It's something so intangible, but something I wish so deeply I could return to.
I felt that to my fuckin core, I wish I hadn't but girlhood is rotten from the first fall.
Goodness. I was quite literally just messaging a friend saying, “I just want to create and destroy.” All in the name of eternal girlhood, that I feel like I’m falling from as I turned 40 recently.
Ow girl
this brought me back to how I felt as a teenager. 15 years are a decade and a half of choked tears and ignored pleads, almost no one seems to get that. almost no one ever considers that yes, these things are devastating when you have only lived the harsh part and you're not old enough to understand things can change.
thank you so much for putting my thoughts into words. I'm trying to embrace aging as a good thing now. so altho I'm still carnivorous, I can now make room for myself to heal.
i feel like girlhood never ends. it was with you ever since you were a child and i think it sticks until you are old. what surrounds it and what it is born with it (friendships, rituals, objects, etc.) will for sure break, but the core (which i consider to be that latent, uneasy feeling) wont vanish until one dies.