I shall start my new blog with a positive note.
I FINALLY read Caitlin Moran’s How to be a Woman this weekend – it was brilliant, so witty and right, so depressingly right. I was actually laughing out loud at points, which I find doesn’t happen with many books. So, so welcome to find an intelligent, sensible and hilarious feminist voice out there and reaching so many many women. I shall lend (sorry Moran!) my copy to as many friends as I can to spread the word.
There were a few slightly sticky bits – such as her claim that motherhood made her a woman being swiftly followed by a chapter about how we didn’t need to procreate to be women, and that maybe we were better off (and it was almost our duty) not sprogging, as then we could spend more time trying to find what it is women are, and what we want to be.
Still, in spite of this I thought overall it was well written, fun (SO important that it should be, feminism’s lost years need to end now) and while I’ve met and even been supervised by the Goddess Greer now I want to meet and heroine worship Moran.
(would she like that? Is it like ‘actor’ v ‘actress’, should we all just be ‘hero’ as we’re all just ‘human’?)
I was merely a feminist before, now I will strive to be a STRIDENT feminist and will have even less time for bullshit than I did before (and that wasn’t much).
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