Sex Object by Jessica Valenti

Author:Jessica Valenti
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

FRIENDS MAKE FUN OF PAUL AND ME FOR BEING BASICALLY married while in college but we are far from perfect. I am far from perfect. One day while we are at Paul’s house in Westchester, he plays video games with his youngest brother, sitting on the floor in front of the bed that belongs to his middle brother. His middle brother and I are lying on our stomachs, heads propped up by our hands, also watching. At some point, this brother slides his hand over and puts it on my ass. I don’t move my eyes from the screen; I don’t say anything. I’m not sure what to do so I do nothing and let him leave it there, though I think I remember his rubbing me at one point. He is seventeen years old. I am flattered but also frozen.

We catch up over a dinner years later, and Paul tells me that despite his support of my bourgeoning feminism I got drunk one night and yelled at him when he tried to pick me up off the floor, saying something about not needing a man. I’m not sure if this is the memory of a person who has caricaturized what a feminist might do or the actions of a drunken idiot newly finding her politics, but either case does not seem very flattering to me. I am either an asshole or someone that a person remembers as an asshole.

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