Archive - Paris Mwendwa

June 2025

true love should not always win

How Dakota Johnson’s new film proves the sexism and irrationality of “true love always wins.”

Jun 27 •

“you can’t hate men and decenter them”

Stop telling women they are not allowed to be angry.

Jun 24 •

maybe glorifying going insane is a bad idea?

“Going crazy” plays into the sexist stereotype that women can only ever be emotionally unstable. Here’s a better thing to do instead.

Jun 20 •

you can’t be a feminist and be pro pornography

Porn is the product of the patriarchy. To call for anything other than the abolition of it is to continue to support the subjugation of women.

Jun 13 •

beautiful girls have nothing useful to say

Is getting picked worth trading in my sense of self?

Jun 10 •

fairytale romance doesn’t exist

And it is precisely your attachment to it that is hurting you.

Jun 6 •

May 2025

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