Simul justus et peccator

"What is the Fall? Consider the first moments of a feminist awakening: it all begins not with a direct attack on patriarchy, but with experiencing one's situation as unjust and humiliating, one's passivity as a failure to act - is this overwhelming awareness of failure not in itself a positive sign? Does it not, in a negative way, bear witness to the fact that women clearly perceive the need to assert themselves, that they perceive the lack of it as a failure? In the same way 'Fall' is the first step toward liberation - it represents the moment of knowledge, of cognizance of one's situation. Thus 'Fall into sin' is a purely formal change: nothing really changes in reality, it is just the subject's stance toward reality that undergoes a radical change. This means that the Fall in the religious sense (the knowledge of sin) is already a reaction to the Fall proper, the retreat from the 'dizzines of freedom'" - The Parallax View, s. 96