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[seamusd]

Erica Jong

Seventeen Warnings in Search of a Feminist Poem

1 Beware of the man who denounces ambition

Comments

[smileandflash]

that was great, thanks! haha

[miir]

Haha! I really like this. Thanks for posting.

[profgreen]

I don't know maybe it is because I am male and can't grasp the phenomenology of being a woman, but this poem irks me. It seems at points to re-instantiate a lot of anti-female stereotypes. Maybe that is the point. Maybe I just don't enjoy political poetry that is purely cynical.

[madmouth]

agreed. I was thinking it may have been satirizing useless and unsubtle feminist ideology...but I suspect it's just propagating it.

[inertiam]

Why can't it be doing both?

[madmouth]

the only thing more stupid than such a poem would be a person who gets tickled at their own intellect at proposing such a far-out, mind-bending, outside-the-box double alternative. whoa.

[christophrawr]

did this woman ever write anything decent? jesus christ.

[gladiolishaker]

Agreed!!

[irishpecas14]

haha satire is good....

i'm pretty sure that this isn't completely serious... either way, good stuff :)