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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

[unprotoize.livejournal.com]

Yeah I don't read books like that anymore, they're too sensationalistic; too designed to get your blood pressure up, too .. i donno .. pandering. Or something. Anyway .. your icon makes you look like Holly ! :) So glad to have found yer lj.

[daybook.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I avoid these books as well. They're too alarmist. And there's so many lately saying how mainstream culture is becoming too porny, ohmygod we're all SO FAT, or whatever else they want to freak out about.