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[wasabi_poptart]

I find certain aspects of Female Chauvinist Pigs deeply troubling.

The way bois are depicted is just awful. My own experience with bois is limited to having my cigarettes lit by their Zippos during Pride, but Levy makes them sound sexist beyond anything that does have a biological penis.

Also, is high school culture really as bad as she makes it out to be, with video clips of girls fellating Swiffer handles being posted onto Friendster and whatnot? I can't even imagine.

I don't know how true all this is, not moving in such circles, but the picture this book paints is dark and bleak.

I haven't finished it yet, and I don't know if it's going to come to this conclusion, but it seems to me that the fundamental principle that is lacking here is R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Comments

[kazoogrrl.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of the drag king show Ms. Marvelous and I went to. I kept wondering, why do all these women want to act like the very people who are most opposed to who they are? That is, why is that crotch grabbing, foul mouthed, swaggering chick acting like the assholes who hang out on the corner in Hampden? I don't care WHO you are, I don't appreciate being sized up like a piece of meat, and I don't like watching you lip synch to misogynist rap songs.

Just a note - I do think that there is also an intersection of class in this area. It reminds me of "Stone Butch Blues", the fact that butch lesbians were (and I would believe still are) ending up in lower social classes. In the book, this seems to align itself with acting out of stereotypical gendered roles, and when someone moved out of those roles it caused problems within that (lesbian) community. Does this make sense?

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

yep. class, race, gender. that's what it all boils down to.