Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

2017 • 354 pages

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This was suggested to me by someone who suspected I might share some of Paglia's views. Up until now I'd only known her as the weird female edgelord who'd argued her way into publicly supporting pedophilia in order to own the libs.
In a classic case of a broken clock being right twice a day, I do agree with some of her views. Also, her rage is entertaining - she can definitely throw a creative diss even if she keeps going after a handful of the same people.
However, she seems very stuck and resistant to new data about a whole lot of things. Her bizarre insistence that homosexuality is a choice is the main one that comes to mind, but this kept bothering me throughout the book. Also, somehow pigeon masculinity says something about human masculinity? I guess if you're aboard the Jordan Peterson train and also clueless to the existence of penguins, swans, heck really all of the animal kingdom. It gets tiring after a while, like listening to the argumentation of someone who refuses to google. She keeps coming back to numerous straw men that I can only guess are second wave feminist arguments of yore.
Exhausting.

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