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MerryBlooms

(11,761 posts)
3. Very good read for me, ty.
Tue May 29, 2012, 08:39 AM
May 2012


>Media commentators love to reduce everything about women to catfights about sex, so it's not surprising that this belittling and historically inaccurate way of looking at the women's movement – angry prudes versus drunken sluts – has recently taken on new life, including among feminists. <

I despise the term, 'catfight', always have.

I read Female Chauvinist Pigs a few years ago. I may need to re-read it soon. I recall it was a good read, but then being left with a feeling of, 'That's it?'. No happy ending

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