A review by copykat42
Moranifesto by Caitlin Moran
5.0
I know it's just a bunch of old columns with little intros. I know some of it is quite dated (and some folks complain about the super-British bits).
But...
There's her piece on the two things men need to know about women.
Or the one on not expecting any one woman to fix all the problems facing women. "We're all working on a massive patchwork quilt called 'A Better Future' here - anyone can pull up a chair and have a go. The only rule of Feminist Quilt Club is that we don't expect one woman to sew the entire damn thing herself, while bitching about it to her face. Oh, and crisps."
Or on why we should stop calling things "women's problems"... "Women don't live on a separate continent - Birdtopia - communicating only sporadically with the menfolk by email. If 52 percent of the potential brain power in the world is being hindered by something - like lack of child care or WTF? creepy debates on rape and contraception - it behooves this small planet for everyone to jump on it and sort it out as quickly as possible."
Plus plenty of the pieces on things other than feminism, particularly the ones about the future.
Just wow. In a good way.
But...
There's her piece on the two things men need to know about women.
Or the one on not expecting any one woman to fix all the problems facing women. "We're all working on a massive patchwork quilt called 'A Better Future' here - anyone can pull up a chair and have a go. The only rule of Feminist Quilt Club is that we don't expect one woman to sew the entire damn thing herself, while bitching about it to her face. Oh, and crisps."
Or on why we should stop calling things "women's problems"... "Women don't live on a separate continent - Birdtopia - communicating only sporadically with the menfolk by email. If 52 percent of the potential brain power in the world is being hindered by something - like lack of child care or WTF? creepy debates on rape and contraception - it behooves this small planet for everyone to jump on it and sort it out as quickly as possible."
Plus plenty of the pieces on things other than feminism, particularly the ones about the future.
Just wow. In a good way.