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bonnieg 's review for:
Full Frontal Feminism
by Jessica Valenti
it is amazing to me that a person writing book about feminism for young women would opt to talk down to her readers. I am hurtling toward old age, and I have been a feminist for many years, in fact I have already raised a feminist. I was a Women's Studies minor when the voices we were hearing from were people like Dworkin and MacKinnon and though they pissed me off plenty, and I disagreed with them mightily on many issues, they never wrote down to me. They expected me to do the work I needed to support, ignore, or oppose what they were selling. Valenti writes as if to someone who has lived in a sealed room exposed to nothing but Quiverfull theology and The Bachelor and Mel Gibson movies for entertainment and who therefore needs to be eased into reality. Its as though she is trying to make feminism simple, and who wants to do that? The second star is a gift.