In
my speech, the default is she. Because I am a woman and I should be at
the center of my own generalized perspective. I get to be the center
of my own world. You don't need to take that as a personal offense, but
you can if you want to. It is remarkable to think that me being the
center of my own world is actually revolutionary and the converse to our
language and thereby our cultural thought. Every woman in our culture
has been taught to think by a man's perspective. Every woman has been
viewing the world through the eyes of someone else. We have no idea what
it is like to be at the center of our own lives, generally speaking
(literally). We literally don't even have the words to speak it. Well,
now she does.
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