Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
WARNING: the last half of this video is me ranting about a book called CUNT so maybe don't watch it with the kids. Also, if you want to avoid discussion of miscarriage and abortion, the fun begins around 13:00.
TOPS
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
The Collected Short Stories of Jean Rhys
My (Not So) Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
FLOPS
What If This Were Enough by Heather Havrilesky
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
Cunt by Inga Muscio
FURTHER RANTING ABOUT CUNT
I somehow forgot to talk about the entire basis for Muscio's alternative healthcare... preferences. She believes that women should avoid any healthcare interventions that are created or administered by men, which is to say, pretty much all western medicine. Again, I know she has a point - there are plenty of examples of products designed FOR women BY men that lead to shitty outcomes. HOWEVER there needs to be some middle ground here.
I also forgot to mention that her advice for birth control is to, in order of preference:
1. Be a lesbian
2. Be celibate
3. If you MUST be penetrated by a man, make him wear a condom
Which is, on the one hand, ridiculous advice, but on the other, one of them is actually my preferred method right now (I'll let you guess which).
Thank you for listening to me rant and sorry for getting so (probably way too) personal...
WARNING: the last half of this video is me ranting about a book called CUNT so maybe don't watch it with the kids. Also, if you want to avoid discussion of miscarriage and abortion, the fun begins around 13:00.
TOPS
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
The Collected Short Stories of Jean Rhys
My (Not So) Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
FLOPS
What If This Were Enough by Heather Havrilesky
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
Cunt by Inga Muscio
FURTHER RANTING ABOUT CUNT
I somehow forgot to talk about the entire basis for Muscio's alternative healthcare... preferences. She believes that women should avoid any healthcare interventions that are created or administered by men, which is to say, pretty much all western medicine. Again, I know she has a point - there are plenty of examples of products designed FOR women BY men that lead to shitty outcomes. HOWEVER there needs to be some middle ground here.
I also forgot to mention that her advice for birth control is to, in order of preference:
1. Be a lesbian
2. Be celibate
3. If you MUST be penetrated by a man, make him wear a condom
Which is, on the one hand, ridiculous advice, but on the other, one of them is actually my preferred method right now (I'll let you guess which).
Thank you for listening to me rant and sorry for getting so (probably way too) personal...
