Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N"

• 2012-10-19

  I was wasting time online when I came across an article about a woman who breastfeeds her dog and has been doing so for the past two years. Every time I think I’ve heard or seen it all, I can go online and be proven so very wrong. The website where I learned about this woman is appropriately named Gawker. On this same website, months ago, I saw a picture of a man’s face after it had been eaten off by another, drug-crazed man. We will never see it all, apparently. The image was repulsive and shocking, salaciously so, and there I was, staring at it, slightly nauseous, wishing there was some way I could un-see what I had seen. To gawk: to gaze or stare stupidly. I don’t really want to know what a man looks like when his face has been cannibalized. I don’t really want to know about this dog-breastfeeding woman. I don’t want to be in the position of being able to judge or ridicule the ugliness and the strangeness of this world. And yet, here I am. Here we all are.

  — The Whole World, Opened Up - The Rumpus.net

  Source: therumpus.net

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