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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

Inga Muscio,

Betty Dodson (Foreword)

Start date: February 1, 2025

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Feb 09, 2009 Lis rated it liked it

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i'm not sure about this book. somehow 2 seems so harsh so i'll round up. at page 188, i wrote this: while i do appreciate muscio's opinions, more research always adds a better punch. if you don't attack with facts, it risks just sounding like a rant. it is in her attempts to call women to action that i find most fault though. she does not want us to support "male" corporations that make tampons, birth control pills, etc. this completely discounts any possibility of women in executive or r&d posi i'm not sure about this book. somehow 2 seems so harsh so i'll round up. at page 188, i wrote this: while i do appreciate muscio's opinions, more research always adds a better punch. if you don't attack with facts, it risks just sounding like a rant. it is in her attempts to call women to action that i find most fault though. she does not want us to support "male" corporations that make tampons, birth control pills, etc. this completely discounts any possibility of women in executive or r&d positions. a bit of research and she could have found out the most female-friendly corporations. and in all honesty, i'm sorry but i just can't take birth control advice from a woman who has had three unwanted pregnancies, regardless of how proud she was that she induced a miscarriage instead of going for an abortion again on the third one. if anything, i think i should be giving her some advice on the subject. her call to action against rapists and movie rape scenes seem like high school pranks more than anything else. i will give enough credit to readers though to hopefully not follow her advice if they ever do have the personal tragedy of experiencing rape. I want to add a post-it note in that page of every copy of this book: "if you are ever raped, please go to a hospital and call the police before posting something on craigslist asking hundreds of women to throw fish heads at his house."

furthermore, i do have a little bit of a problem at how she accuses men of "cuntfear". it reminds me of the love-fear line in donnie darko. i feel this book does attack men to a degree, strongly encouraging an us-versus-them mentality. i understand her point is that this mentality is already there, but i don't see how perpetuating it will end it. what i said before about wishing she'd researched corporations that have more equal representation of genders, well muscio doesn't seem to be aiming for "equal", she wants them to be entirely woman-run. oh, and i do know who remedios varo is. i learned all about her from a book my husband's brother gave him. ...more

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Jun 04, 2008 MM rated it liked it

I liked it -- Muscio covers the power of language (hence the title), and important issues for women's bodies (menstruation, sex, prostitution, rape). Much of the ground she covers is well-tread, but Muscio offers a unique voice (didn't always agree with her, of course), and a serious pro-woman perspective. THAT is what makes this book important. ...more

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