watching this first thing in the morning is bad because i'm crying and will never know love like this

gender relations in the early 20th c.

"Girls fell in love earlier and more often than the boys, not because they were more fickle, but because there was great pressure to fall in love with a man, whether or not it was the man. They wrote love notes, while the boys sent those obscene, sadistic comic valentines that had become so popular since the end of the nineteenth century. Girls were much more practiced in love, if only in their imaginations."

- John R. Gillis, For Better, For Worse: British marriages, 1600-present

all i want.

“it also shows us, as anthropologists have recently done, that women’s idea of their own sexuality (at least in a majority of cultures) is historically a response to what men want and demand that sexuality be, and that in general women are content to accept whatever model of their own sexuality men offer to and demand of them."

- Steven Marcus, anthropologist/ asshole