The Power of Self-Irasure

"I just, you know, I'm a scribbler. I'm not careful," she says. "There's just a lot of ways that I'm sort of obtuse in ways that are more like ... when I was a kid, I was always in trouble for being messy and it was a greater sin to be messy as a female than it was to be a messy boy." She feels sorry for men who don't understand the nature of their own presence: "The performance of masculinity seems deeply painful"