Revolution Girl Style Then

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I just started reading The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer, and it's another of these why-did-I-wait-so-long moments.  Her writing is full of beans, in the good way, quoting widely from Jackie Collins to Ibsen, full of freshness and jokes and revolutionary fervor.  Admittedly, in 1970 in Australia and then in London, the revolution seems to have looked pretty middle-class and white and had some pretty full-of-shit ideas about homosexual and trans realities, but I don't like to throw the baby out with the bathwater, feminism-wise.  Tiptoeing around the bullshit, this book is fun feminism (I don't mean fun-feminism tee emm, you know) and blunt truths about subjects and objects and sex and who wants what and questions about the crappy things we've all been taught.  At 40-ish years old this book shows how some things have changed and some are exactly the same.

Short version: I dig it, you might too.