/lit/ - Literature

>have people with blue eyes in the family
>be brown-eyed

>Conversing with female member of my species on college campus
>Have intentions to mate with said member and produce 2.5 offspring thus passing on my genes and receiving tax benefits at the same time
>Discern from her words that there is a 82% chance she is a feminist
>Quickly go over feminist authors I've heard of in my head
>Target found: Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Somali born female lesbian ex-muslim, childhood victim of genital mutilation. Intersectionality status: 98.5%
>Casually let slip that I read the works of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
>"Uhhhhh anon you realize she's a TERF right?"
>never heard of that term before, but from the context it doesn't sound good
>realize I made a crucial mistake
>engage in damage control, tone: casual dismissiveness with small hints of regret
>"Haha yeah, I don't agree with her on a lot of things but she's a good feminist."
>"Anon, she's a TERRFFF. How can she be a GOOD FEMINIST when she doesn't believe transwomen are WOMEN?!"
>turn around
>never see her again
>search for mate continues

>in english class
>we're split up into groups, each focusing on a different philosopher
>group next to me is doing marx
>some blonde girl in the group says "I don't know how anyone can identify as marxist. The communist manifesto is so stupid. Does he really think all people social equality is possible?"
>I pipe up
>"Well you should read his Critique of the Gotha Program where Marx directly accesses the problem of equality and he dismisses it as a strict bourgeois categ--"
>"Uhhh...why are you even talking to me?"
>both her group and my group laughs

why am I even alive

>But here both posess themselves and the other; because he posesses himself in her, but she herself in him. Because, by loving you who loves me, I find myself in you who thinks of me, and win myself back, after giving myself up, in you who receives me.