A review by pixiefrida
Females by Andrea Long Chu

challenging funny tense fast-paced

3.75

i love andrea chu's writing voice and her outrageous claims but i feel very ambivalently about this gender theory pamphlet. she contradicts herself on many points about what gender is (whether existential or ontological) and she excludes/harms trans men in her views of femaleness. however she posits that gender is a submissive act (an absolute, sweeping claim imo) and that even desire, lack of consent and making room for another's ego is "female." this is the first piece of gender theory i've ever read and i feel that chu needs to give more space for gender possibility. she really just wrote about how everyone is a female trait lmao 
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