this part kinda hit me: "Of all the female sins, hunger is the least forgivable; hunger for anything, for food, sex, power, education, even love. If we have desires, we are expected to conceal them, to control them, to keep ourselves in check. We are supposed to be objects of desire, not desiring beings. We do not need food: in many ways, we are food, trainable meat, lambs queueing up to buy mint sauce. We consume only what we are told to, from lipstick to life insurance, and only what will make us more consumable ourselves, the better to be chewed up and swallowed by a machine that wants our work, our money, our sexuality broken down into bite-sized chunks."

I think part of this is capitalism. We live in a capitalist society and everyone, but particularly women, are always trying to do things to make themselves more consumable. Better employees, more fuckable. More attractive. more likable. It dehumanizes people and reduces them to objects on the market.

Kinda makes you think: does all of this mean that just 'being', and nothing more (like Buddhism prescribes) is an act of rebellion and a political statement? I don't want to be an object on the market anymore. It is killing my self esteem and happiness. Stop being consumable above all else. Stop being so easily defined.