Love Is Love

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All while this is going on, Jenkins does want to insist that calls for the redistribution of love cannot be sustained at all. Maria Bello dares to question everything. I believe that shows nothing but strength. The fact that she decided to share her journey into self-loving and self-understanding with the world? That’s courage. You see, we are all far from being perfect, we have all made mistakes and taken wrong turns at some point, and most of us are well and consciously aware of this. Still, when in social context, when amongst strangers, this is not something we proclaim. Why? For a thousand and different reasons. Maria Bello goes after those reasons, after those whys. Should we even be comparing ourselves to perfection? What does perfection even mean? What does it look like? Why do I have to be perfect? Do I want to be perfect? Do I feel comfortable with perfection? Should I?

Love Is... is a single-frame strip. The caption for each strip begins with the phrase "love is..." in the upper left corner, with the thought completed at the bottom, below an illustration, usually of the man and the woman who are the main characters. Each strip is independent of those before and after; there are no ongoing storylines. Love is God's way, the moral way, but it's also the only thing that works. It's the rare moment where idealism actually overlaps with pragmatism. People don't think of Jesus as a strategist, but he was a leader who successfully built what was essentially a radical equal rights movement within a brutal empire. You don't do that without being a master strategist. When he said, 'Love those who curse you' in the Sermon on the Mount, his famous call for nonviolence, he wasn't just speaking about what kind of behavior his father preferred. He was offering a how-to guide on changing a negative situation into a positive one."

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Reading about her family history was touching, particularly in light of her relationship with her father now. Bodies of victims of the Pulse Shooting were depicted several times in fairly gory ways. This felt insensitive. Also a large amount of the text are a bit off topic, making it feels very tedious presentation. It goes on and on to talk about gender bias and discrimination, same sex or multi-partner marriages, etc. Those are definitely related but should probably be discussed *after* a hypothesis about love is presented. It also encourages to get rid of gender discrimination, single-partner marriage, etc, but without any scientific justification. Is there a model / analysis / hypothesis about the social structure with or without the concerned feature? Is there any experiments done to study the hypothesis? No.

impressively accessible philosophy, Carrie is a wonderful writer and I sped through this book in one weekend. the subject matter is fascinating, as well as being timely and practically important. written from a feminist point of view and imo inclusive of trans, non-binary, and queer folk. AND I think it gets a bit existentialist at the end ;) 10/10 recommend 5/5 stars This will not be a story in which the death of the husband or wife becomes what amounts to the credit sequence for a new life, a catalyst for the discovery that (a point typically introduced in such accounts by the precocious child of the bereaved) “you can love more than one person.” Of course you can, but marriage is something different. Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Consider, for example, the situation of a lesbian couple in late-nineteenth-century England. Suppose they are in love biologically speaking: the parts of their brains associated with romantic love are active, and they are under the influence of oxytocin, dopamine, and so on. But social norms severely curtail their ability to engage in any of the kinds of bonding associated with romantic love.She is an excellent writer with some nuance and balance and interesting perspectives that lead you to further thought into how love works. She isn't going to persuade you, but she will have you thinking about the topic of love, which is her aim. The why we love is as important as how and who. And after reading this book, I've started questioning my own conceptions of love. The first part of the book is pretty great, and it involves her noticing and trying to deal with both the biological and social dimensions of love. She points out that we all have brains with their basic chemistry pretty much constant throughout human history, and so we should take what science tells us seriously. But there is a need to be careful about what science actually tells us and not let our biased assumptions let us read what we want into the scientific results. Ja, dit was een boek dat ik zeker zou aanraden. Ook vanwege de prachtige illustraties, ook al moet ik zeggen dat ik de eend (en zijn expressies) ietwat afleidend vond, vooral omdat de andere eenden niet zo eruitzien als we die weer tegenkomen. The third common strategy is simply to state that love is both biology and society without doing anything to resolve the appearance of contradiction this creates. Thus, when she sadly concludes that she may not be in love because romantic love is currently constructed to be monogamous, she could easily say that her own life bears out that this can’t be the answer! Perhaps what love could (or should) be is part of what love is. This ultimately seems like her conclusion, but she takes a quite roundabout way to get there.