“The experience of bodily joy is an invitation to reconsider the conditions that hold you away from it most of the time.” As far back as college, I was teased for saying about a scene from a movie or a line from a book, “[blank] was so good, it made the whole experience worthwhile.” I am my own cliché, but here it is. “The experience of bodily joy is an invitation to reconsider the conditions that hold you away from it most of the time.” Excerpted, this line does work. It crashes hard into the mind, and it sits there. In the context, it is heartbreaking. Imagine hundreds of thousand of people—perhaps mostly women—enjoying themselves fully in front of One Direction or Bruce Springsteen or ICP or whatever they like. And then the screaming stops, and they are subsumed by the role of mom, wife, daughter, lady, girl, woman.

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