6 Quotes by Samhita Mukhopadhyay

It is hard to feel safe and comfortable when the only measures for what is safe and comfortable are normative ideas you don't abide by.

The notion that women shouldn't care about personal success -- or the work that gets them there -- is disengenuous; it is impossible for women not to have jobs anymore, so it doesn't make sense to expect them to structure their lives around getting married. The real failure is our cultural incapacity to make room for women to live and thrive outside of traditional conceptions of femininity and relationships. After all, we can eat without marriage, but not without work.

The problem with the 'masculinity crisis' is not that women have excelled too much and therefore created a crisis for men, but that we have such a stein inability to let go of what it has traditionally meant to be a man...As long as we perpetuate the myth that men have inherent qualities that make them more suitable than women for certain types of work, the shifting nature of the economy (and women's attainment of better jobs) is going to continue to be interpreted as a crisis of masculinity.

Through fetishizing the inequality embedded in the romance story, women have somehow become convinced that being in, or even vying for, a relationship is something we should want -- regardless of whether that relationship might hold equal power or doesn't serve us.

Only once we reach a point where we can recognize that men get hurt from acting “manly” and women are hurt from men being “manly,” can we stop the cycle of feeding into regressive and restrictive gender expectations.

Systemic racism isn’t something you can opt out of; it’s only something you can consciously resist.