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caitoconnor13 's review for:
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
by Inga Muscio
One star is doing Muscio a favor at this point. I hate the author as much as I hate the book.
Beginning with the fact that she literally is spreading misinformation about abortion and confusing emergency contraceptives with abortion pills, which is like handing the GOP their ammunition for being "pro-life."
Not to mention she participates in trans-erasure completely and in the second edition published in 2002, she puts a mention in the afterword, treating them like a complete afterthought and othering the entire trans experience. She is also completely and totally ableist, on more than one occasion, and it occurs blatantly.
Inga Muscio is very grossly misinformed, and a lot of the "guidance" she spews in this aside from the tips about alternative DIY feminist articles, this book is a gigantic problematic bible for the average clueless person looking to get into feminism. It is only going to disservice anyone who reads it hoping to come out of it being more progressive and educated. Not to mention she displays a very racist tendency to use words that aren't hers to use at all. She is not at all candid in her transmisogyny and altogether exclusion of trans experience from the larger context of feminism or even existence in general.
If you want to read this book and find out for yourself how irrelevant her writing and her ideas are, don't buy the book. Find it somewhere from someone, borrow it from the library. Don't make the mistake I made of getting your own copy. I threw mine in the garbage as soon as I was finished reading.
Beginning with the fact that she literally is spreading misinformation about abortion and confusing emergency contraceptives with abortion pills, which is like handing the GOP their ammunition for being "pro-life."
Not to mention she participates in trans-erasure completely and in the second edition published in 2002, she puts a mention in the afterword, treating them like a complete afterthought and othering the entire trans experience. She is also completely and totally ableist, on more than one occasion, and it occurs blatantly.
Inga Muscio is very grossly misinformed, and a lot of the "guidance" she spews in this aside from the tips about alternative DIY feminist articles, this book is a gigantic problematic bible for the average clueless person looking to get into feminism. It is only going to disservice anyone who reads it hoping to come out of it being more progressive and educated. Not to mention she displays a very racist tendency to use words that aren't hers to use at all. She is not at all candid in her transmisogyny and altogether exclusion of trans experience from the larger context of feminism or even existence in general.
If you want to read this book and find out for yourself how irrelevant her writing and her ideas are, don't buy the book. Find it somewhere from someone, borrow it from the library. Don't make the mistake I made of getting your own copy. I threw mine in the garbage as soon as I was finished reading.