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In her new memoir, Anderson reveals the surprising source of her power and resilience: hyperfeminine fantasies.
Womanhood is wisdom, a space to step into and claim or so the story goes.
ButLove, Pameladelivers something different.
It is in nature that she is beautiful, beyond her body.
I wanted to be a wild horse, she writes.
Everywhere else, its complicated.
They tore down the stage I was meant to stand on.
My clothes were torn, too.
We were lucky to get out of there.
As Anderson told Bustle in a recent interview.
she asks inLove, Pamela.
They had nothing to go on but this image being flung into the world.
No matter how I tried, the image was bigger than me and always won.
My life took off without me.
And this is after having survived a turbulent childhood marked by domestic violence, sexual abuse, and rape.
Her adolescence was delayed:I did not start my menstrual cycle till I was eighteen.
After high school, I thought Id never get it…
I was definitely stunted.
Some say because I was so athletic.
Others say because of trauma.In high school, her romantic relationships ended in jealousy and violence.
I was sexualized so young that I skipped past the promiscuity phase, she writes.
Or is it that they are meant to be internalized, the inner child incorporated and nurtured?
How else could she have producedLove, Pamela?
Never in the memoir does Anderson frame herself as a victim.
And there it is again, nature.
source: www.bustle.com
