Now a Minge-Fro sounds interesting...
Required reading for 2012 for the laydeez: Caitlin Moran’s
How To Be A Woman (actually, all the switched on birds would’ve read her
already, but ideas take time to filter through the afro sometimes).
I’ve just burnt this book in just over a day. In my pyjamas.
But a good day’s work, nonetheless.
It’s part memoir, part pro-feminist rant, but with a huge
heap o’laughs too.
How about this for shooting down the porn industry’s domination
over our lady-garden-look?
“It’s like – ladies! This shit doesn’t apply to us! We’re not getting paid for this! We don’t need to bother! Grow your little minge-fro back! Be hair now!"
The big ideas shooting through the book is that we should be
on the constant look-out for sneaky, subtle sexism in the 21st
century, and that if we’re in any doubt as to what we women should be doing in
these mixed-messaged moments, we should ask ourselves the test question: “Are
the fellas doing it as well?” (compare obsessing about body image, having
facial tucks, shaving their genitals to look like children).
Check out Caitin Moran further here. Or buy her book fromMama’s Shop of Horrors here.
In other book news...
I’ve been soaking up an alternative view of the 1960s, linkingcounter-culture hippies and LSD opinion-formers with esoteric Nazis andoccultism. Perfect for the grandparents.
NEVER TRUST A HIPPY. Alright?
