international feminist sensation Harlowe Brisbane! author of "Raging Flower," a book about VAGINA POWER!
my mind did in fact go directly to Inga Muscio and Cunt, so this was at least a satisfying scroll-down experience.
edit: Wait, I need to talk more about Cunt. My 2010 goodreads status updates complain a lot about vague goddess mumbo-jumbo, which I actually do not remember anything about. What I do mainly remember about Cunt was Muscio's section on PMS, which began with stating that she had been told many times that PMS was all in her head and not real. I personally had never encountered this particular line before, but okay, it's a pretty standard attitude to Hysterical Woman Stuff. She then went on to talk about how much negativity and stigma surrounds menstruation in our culture. Sounds right. But then, she actually learned to love and respect her period! Cool! AND JUST LIKE THAT, HER TERRIBLE CHRONIC PMS WENT AWAY, WAIT A GODDAMNT SECOND INGA MUSCIO DID YOU JUST REBUT THE SEXIST ARGUMENT THAT PMS WAS ALL IN YOUR HEAD BY TELLING AN EMPOWERING TALE OF HOW YOU DEFEATED PMS WITH THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING????????????!!!!!!!!?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?@!
ARGH
So anyway Inga Muscio seems like a nice enough lady and capable of change (the original edition is obviously wildly cissexist but a hefty afterword in the edition I read makes a pretty good start at acknowledging these flaws) but also jesus christ it is tragically hilarious a QWOC feminist had to write an entire YA book subtweeting her.
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my mind did in fact go directly to Inga Muscio and Cunt, so this was at least a satisfying scroll-down experience.
edit: Wait, I need to talk more about Cunt. My 2010 goodreads status updates complain a lot about vague goddess mumbo-jumbo, which I actually do not remember anything about. What I do mainly remember about Cunt was Muscio's section on PMS, which began with stating that she had been told many times that PMS was all in her head and not real. I personally had never encountered this particular line before, but okay, it's a pretty standard attitude to Hysterical Woman Stuff. She then went on to talk about how much negativity and stigma surrounds menstruation in our culture. Sounds right. But then, she actually learned to love and respect her period! Cool! AND JUST LIKE THAT, HER TERRIBLE CHRONIC PMS WENT AWAY, WAIT A GODDAMNT SECOND INGA MUSCIO DID YOU JUST REBUT THE SEXIST ARGUMENT THAT PMS WAS ALL IN YOUR HEAD BY TELLING AN EMPOWERING TALE OF HOW YOU DEFEATED PMS WITH THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING????????????!!!!!!!!?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?@!
ARGH
So anyway Inga Muscio seems like a nice enough lady and capable of change (the original edition is obviously wildly cissexist but a hefty afterword in the edition I read makes a pretty good start at acknowledging these flaws) but also jesus christ it is tragically hilarious a QWOC feminist had to write an entire YA book subtweeting her.