A review by diamondsky7
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio

1.0

First of all I would like to say I am a feminist, I read a lot of feminist literature. I was so excited for this book I thought this was going to be a feminist reclaiming of the word cunt but I was wrong. The first 10 pages or so was a brief glossing over the reclaiming of the word and was definitely what I was expecting based on the synopsis of it. Then it fell apart and devolved into ramblings of a slightly unhinged cuntlover, like it was relevant to tell the story of how she got mad at another woman because she was sitting in her car putting lipstick on because its not safe to do that. Could there be some really good points in here? Yes! I think period products need a whole reform and I too hate that they're called feminine hygiene products but you lose sight of all those good points when you start going all alternative medicine on me. I agree that we fully don't know the side effects of certain birth controls and that they mess with your body but we have a problem when you start telling people that keeping cuts clean and drinking water will help infections. You know what helps infections? Antibiotics. I'm sorry but I'm way more willing to take advice and instruction from the guy who spent half his life studying this kind of stuff. To each their own but don't be telling people that this is the way to live. On a totally different topic, I had an issue with the end of the book where Inga talks about the relationship between reader and writer and it just kind of felt off and weird to me. But the second major issue I had was the voice of this book, it is constantly changing in the same sentence Inga can go from "hoodrat" to eloquent and then back to "hoodrat". It sounded like she was trying to be hoodrat/ghetto or what she thinks is hoodrat/ghetto and I can tell you right now it sounds like her idea of what the ghetto is is based off of Bring It On. Seriously who talks like that, it makes it all the more confusing why she wrote in such a way, I dont know if its to seem more relatable to the reader or what but its jarring and uncomfortable to read such a way of writing. There are many many issues with this book that I haven't even spoken about but I have better books to read than to keep ranting about this one. I'll leave with one last thing, I'm not mad just disappointed (actually a little mad that I spent $13 on this).