Reddit reviews DEL-Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Live Girls)

> Yes, but I feel gross afterwards so I don't anymore.


That's your first speedbump.



This is either a maturity issue, a confidence issue, or both. Read this book.



If you don't know what makes you shine you can't hope for others to do it.

I read this book in high school on a feminism bender. It has a lot of nonsense but I did enjoy the first chapter where she has you say "cunt" a bunch out loud. She's like, isn't this word so much more fun to say and more powerful sounding than vagina? (Which it is really haha.) Isn't that such a shitty word, vagina? (I don't really think so, but she does point out that vagina means sheath which obviously led to statements like "I am nobody's sheath for their sword!!".) The book may have rubbed off on me a little because I do kind of enjoy saying the word cunt, and forget sometimes how much it horribly offends people.

I second the recommendations for Adrienne Rich and Anne Fausto-Sterling. Here are a few other recommendations:
Kimberle Crenshaw's theory of Intersectionality,
Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality,
Bettina Apthekar's Intimate Politics,
W.E.B. Du Bois' theory of the Double Consciousness,
and if you want more of a pop fem approach, you should try Cunt

If you get more engaged with theoretical work by examining another work through that critical lens, you might enjoy watching Dark Angel and examining how issues of identification, gender, sexuality, and race play out through the main character.

Good luck and enjoy!

Cunt.

Is this the Cunt you're telling everyone about?

I would agree with this 100%. I wish it were more socially acceptable to use, personally.

Also, it makes for an awesome book.

A friend of mine has that book too. She was looking for tattoo ideas.

> Apparently that terminology was once a bit more acceptable.

http://www.amazon.com/Cunt-Declaration-Independence-Live-Girls/dp/1580050158

It wasn't always a very sexist term

Because the word has been used to oppress women. Period. If a word has been used in a pejorative sense on a wide scale towards a subset of the population that has traditionally not been in power, then its a pretty good bet that its oppressive language. this book aside, its a pretty well known word for being pejorative (type in cunt to google and see what comes up. Does that look like a word that isnt oppressive?)

Well, yes, counterrevolutionary is overused, but an angry and dramatic response that shuts down communication doesn't help anyone.