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soupsalright 's review for:
Woman Hating
by Andrea Dworkin
last as hell to the party but this is my first radfem book. it was really enlightening and encouraged me to look closer into the way society is structured around sex and gender and how women have forever gotten the shorter end of the stick. also, the last part was an interesting turn where the author pivots to speaking about how adopting an androgynous way of life could be the answer to ending the age-old manner in which women have been discriminated as a sex class.
after previous parts that went into detail the history of the systematic way in which “woman” has been equalled to “lesser”. i knew of most of these methods of dehumanisation, being a woman does that to you, but learning just how rotten to the core the apple is was baffling!
also! the afterword to the book is a spirited defense from the author of her casual writing style which made this such an accessible read in the first place. she goes into how revolutionary words are also subject to the conforming rules and standard of punctuation, typography and the overall “visual” of it all. its a good point and policing someone’s words could be seen as patronising, effectively deciding who’s ideas are heard and who’s aren’t.
in fact, a revolution that i believe is /absolutely/ of equal importance as the female liberation movement - is the anti-design movement. where kerning and line spacing and font sizes are not pored over like they once might have been. we are a lot more liberal with our grammar and its cringe to criticise someone on their verbiage.
come back dworkin!! no one’s gonna stop you from publishing in all lowercase run-on sentences, if anything, they’ll call it chic!
after previous parts that went into detail the history of the systematic way in which “woman” has been equalled to “lesser”. i knew of most of these methods of dehumanisation, being a woman does that to you, but learning just how rotten to the core the apple is was baffling!
also! the afterword to the book is a spirited defense from the author of her casual writing style which made this such an accessible read in the first place. she goes into how revolutionary words are also subject to the conforming rules and standard of punctuation, typography and the overall “visual” of it all. its a good point and policing someone’s words could be seen as patronising, effectively deciding who’s ideas are heard and who’s aren’t.
in fact, a revolution that i believe is /absolutely/ of equal importance as the female liberation movement - is the anti-design movement. where kerning and line spacing and font sizes are not pored over like they once might have been. we are a lot more liberal with our grammar and its cringe to criticise someone on their verbiage.
come back dworkin!! no one’s gonna stop you from publishing in all lowercase run-on sentences, if anything, they’ll call it chic!