Love and interpersonal emotions in general are needs which cease to demand at least minimal fulfillment only when human beings have long since ceased to be human. In capitalist society, the woman has the special mission of being both reservoir and receptacle for a whole range of human emotions otherwise banished from society.
Angela Davis, “Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation”
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(via champagnecandy)
I think this fits perfectly in the Schmerzensmann discussion we’re having in Germany at the moment. Many (heterosexual-cis) men complain that they can’t express emotions in public like women. This quote shows that it isn’t necesarily a good thing to be able, no expected, to express and deal with emotions.
Thoughts?