Girls just want to yearn

On masochism, feminism, and not actually wanting what you want

Women love to yearn. It seems we’ve got an itch that only perpetual yearning can scratch. We relish in the longing, the coveting, the sting of never getting what we think we want. We hold our yearning dear and let it fill our hungry hearts. We yearn for God sometimes, and we call our yearning spiritual by nature. Other times we project our yearning onto…