I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.

In this ambivalent combination of masculine fistiness and feminine cushioning, Martine sensed the vigor and sparkle of life, […]

Phobias, philias, manias, perversities, and mental disorders are abnormal instincts. ... Phobias, philias, manias, perversities, and mental disorders teach us how normal instincts work (=how the mind works).

In the most egregious examples, these stories harness a particular woman’s travails without acknowledging the systems and forces that contributed to her treatment and how these systems persist in our own time.