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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
Rage, rage, feminine rage. This book dissects our society and tears down the patriarchy. The blinders are lifted. It will make you mad and disgusted. But also rejoice in the feminine. A lot of sarcastic man bashing which may be a hard pill to swallow, it’s definitely not an easy read, but it’s strong, well researched, important and powerful.
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Yep, reading Clementine Ford is like having a conversation over a couple of margaritas with a close female friend.
Look, as a single Lady-No-Kids coming up to one year since her separation, there are many ways I could've approached this book. And I know that I've come out of my separation in a far better financial and social position than millions of other women, especially my age.
Did I need to read this book? No. There were many tenets about the institution of marriage that I was already aware of, and went into my own marriage questioning them head-on myself. I was not given away - we walked each other down the aisle as equals - I refused to adopt a new name, we had separate bank accounts and wholly independent lives that did not revolve around each other.
Yet reading all of this through Clem's voice just feels reassuring - that it's okay to have the promise of the safety and connection of marriage fall down in front of even the most critical of eyes, and not be a feminist failure. (She will, though, defend her choice of a historic Gaol as a venue!)
So many quotes to choose from to add to my author biography though!!!
"She is is old, she is sad, she is friendless. ... She is dried up, she is grotesque, she is unworthy of that most precious of resources: male attention. In one of the many paradoxes of misogynist logic, she is both bereft of sexual experiences and yet also boasts a vagina the size of a shipping container. ... She is the most nightmarish vision the world can imagine, a rotting witch clattering about in a dank house with the dozens of feral animals she keeps to stave off her wretched loneliness."
"If science - which we know is never wrong! - could be used to prove that men really are better at being paid more and women excel at picking up clothes, then men could stop feeling so bad about benefiting from the massive social advantages they've deliberately engineered for themselves, and women could stop expecting them to change."
"Menstruation - the womb's wallpaper!"
"Why would a woman shun the glorious blessing of being a wife (or give up trying her damnedest to become one) unless there was something fundamentally wrong with her? A chronic history of trauma, perhaps, such as the accumulated devastation of being ignored by men (the worst kind of pain)? ... Deprived of the warm glow of a man's interest and thus stripped of life's purpose, this unearthly demon now spends her days worshipping the hideous gods of feminism and all their snake-tongued lies, that pesky uterous one again bone bouncing around her unloved body as she numbs the intensity of her hunger fo rmale affection with a series of industrial-sized dildos, pharmaceutical-grade drugs and the regular updfating of her blog, Why Men Should Die."
BRB, starting up my blog.
Look, as a single Lady-No-Kids coming up to one year since her separation, there are many ways I could've approached this book. And I know that I've come out of my separation in a far better financial and social position than millions of other women, especially my age.
Did I need to read this book? No. There were many tenets about the institution of marriage that I was already aware of, and went into my own marriage questioning them head-on myself. I was not given away - we walked each other down the aisle as equals - I refused to adopt a new name, we had separate bank accounts and wholly independent lives that did not revolve around each other.
Yet reading all of this through Clem's voice just feels reassuring - that it's okay to have the promise of the safety and connection of marriage fall down in front of even the most critical of eyes, and not be a feminist failure. (She will, though, defend her choice of a historic Gaol as a venue!)
So many quotes to choose from to add to my author biography though!!!
"She is is old, she is sad, she is friendless. ... She is dried up, she is grotesque, she is unworthy of that most precious of resources: male attention. In one of the many paradoxes of misogynist logic, she is both bereft of sexual experiences and yet also boasts a vagina the size of a shipping container. ... She is the most nightmarish vision the world can imagine, a rotting witch clattering about in a dank house with the dozens of feral animals she keeps to stave off her wretched loneliness."
"If science - which we know is never wrong! - could be used to prove that men really are better at being paid more and women excel at picking up clothes, then men could stop feeling so bad about benefiting from the massive social advantages they've deliberately engineered for themselves, and women could stop expecting them to change."
"Menstruation - the womb's wallpaper!"
"Why would a woman shun the glorious blessing of being a wife (or give up trying her damnedest to become one) unless there was something fundamentally wrong with her? A chronic history of trauma, perhaps, such as the accumulated devastation of being ignored by men (the worst kind of pain)? ... Deprived of the warm glow of a man's interest and thus stripped of life's purpose, this unearthly demon now spends her days worshipping the hideous gods of feminism and all their snake-tongued lies, that pesky uterous one again bone bouncing around her unloved body as she numbs the intensity of her hunger fo rmale affection with a series of industrial-sized dildos, pharmaceutical-grade drugs and the regular updfating of her blog, Why Men Should Die."
BRB, starting up my blog.
Excellent. 200% must read. So validating, full of smart research & backstories and highly convincing. My (male) partner now is going to read it.
slow-paced
I wanted to love this.
More churchy than I would have liked. Incredibly preachy. Don't remember hearing any reason not to get married apart from men are Trash.
More churchy than I would have liked. Incredibly preachy. Don't remember hearing any reason not to get married apart from men are Trash.
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
challenging
funny
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
A book to be read by every women.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence