I would have ignored three or four comments about what girls/women should do, but I have my limits, apparently.
Let them shove and whistle.
Cheers, Cat
Quoting oudeis <oudeis at gmail.com>:
> Aww, come on Cat. I was having fun reading the discussion and being
> invisible, like being a spider in a web in the corner of the buoys'
> locker room. Now they're all going to shove their hands in the pockets
> -- or roll their eyes heavenward -- and start whistlin'. Damn damn
> damn!
>
> k
>
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>
>
> I just read this whole thread, and I'm kind of appalled.
>
> It's nice to know the guys can still get together and debate how women should
> respond to dominant and changing discourses on sex, gender and femininity.
> Thanks for that, boys, I was naturally at a loss to know where I should be
> going.
>
> So I read the snippet from the review first, and thought perhaps I should buy
> this book, but then subsequent elaborations have suggested that it's another
> highly selective over-reaching patronising polemic on 'girls today' and
> frankly
> I've read more than enough of those.
>
> I shouldn't wear makeup, apparently, or perfume. It's un-feminist - thanks
> for
> that, cause god knows a real feminist takes her guidelines from a group of
> men
> debating what women should do - and doesn't taste good. Somehow those
> imperatives are compatible, I know, but I'm still working it out myself.
>
> "Aggressive sex" is also bad, apparently, though I've no fucking idea what
> that
> means. Sorry, perhaps I shouldn't swear either. Swearing probably goes with
> non-passive sex as a boys' thing.
>
> Perhaps you should all agree on a set of rules. I teach a lot of gender
> studies
> students, I'm sure they'll be just thrilled to learn from it.
>
> Catherine
>
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