Comments | feminist: female chauvinist pigs?

fierceawakening in feminist

female chauvinist pigs?

Sep 15, 2005 12:54

has anyone read Female Chauvinist Pigs? I find myself really creeped out by the reviews of it, but I haven't read it and I've also heard it's insightful ( Read more... )

types of feminism, lgbtiq, books

Comments 7

dorktastic September 15 2005, 17:35:01 UTC

I haven't read it yet either, but I am also weirded out with the potential of the book to be really accusatory and blaming of women.

chreebomb September 15 2005, 18:54:37 UTC

i'm icked out by the name. i'm sure it's intended to raise eyebrows. but still.

fierceawakening September 15 2005, 19:08:59 UTC

Yeah. Me too. Again, it makes me feel like it's saying women are the "pigs" we should be focusing on fighting. I know that's not what's meant, but when you draw that much attention to "hey look, WOMEN are doing this!" -- I worry that anti-feminists will delight in jumping on that and going "See? Women are worse than men! Stop hating men! It's your own fault the culture is full of raunch, you skanks! Stop blaming innocent, red-blooded males! You know how we get horny!" etc.

chreebomb September 15 2005, 19:13:21 UTC

preach.

(The comment has been removed)

fierceawakening September 15 2005, 19:09:41 UTC

thanks. please do!

Canadian interested in knowing what it says about "bois" (be it butch women and/or transmen) tyresias September 15 2005, 20:16:03 UTC

The resent rise in visibility (at least as it seems to me) has made many people think we're this new "youth culture" only phenomeon. The rate of increase in visibility is outstanding though. When I went on HRT at 19 I was comparatively "young" (in 3rd year of University, and it had been 3 years since I'd lived at "home ( ... )

so_gracefully September 17 2005, 22:22:31 UTC

i recently read an interview with the author, and in it she spoke about women feeling pressure to conform to an idea of sexuality that may not really speak to them or their personal desires. from her interview, it seems like she's not going to go about it in an anti-sex/anti-women way at all, but in a way that supports expressing one's own personal sexuality in the ways one individually feels most comfortable and happy. she says things like, "sexual power is just one very limited kind", "it's no more liberating to have to fit into the mold of stripper/porn star/hooters waitress than it is to conform to the image of a 1950s housewife". it made me that much more interested in the book itself, though i haven't read it yet either (probably for the same kind of hesitation you mention).