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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 04:06 PM
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Catch it while you can..."customer image" on Amazon for Kate O'Beirne book
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 04:09 PM
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1. Wonkette's review of this book was priceless!
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/books/review/15cox.html

In the age of the book-as-rant (see Goldberg, Ann Coulter, Al Franken and Michael Moore), perhaps one shouldn't expect better than O'Beirne's simplistic caricatures. Today American women have unprecedented access to educational and professional opportunity and to the machinery of power. O'Beirne, however, attributes women's progress not to any feminist agitation but to "the natural evolution of social expectations."

Unfortunately, there is no such thing. Social change is often the product of confrontation between extremes. To depict one extreme as pernicious and all-powerful reduces real debate about equality into a cartoon about underarm hair. Feminism isn't always pretty (see: underarm hair). Without it, however, Kate O'Beirne would have been unlikely to have this book published - and most women would not have their own money to waste on it.

Ana Marie Cox is the author of the novel "Dog Days."
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Lusted4 Donating Member (558 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 04:16 PM
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2. Can Kate O'Beirne still eat a cheeseburger through a chicken wire fence ?
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Sugarcoated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 04:20 PM
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5. That witch is as biased as they come
she's also ugly, inside AND out.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 04:16 PM
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3. Oh jesus that's good!!! n/t
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Spock_is_Skeptical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 04:17 PM
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4. I clicked "yes" this image was indeed helpful
LOL
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Spock_is_Skeptical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:50 PM
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6. also added my own review on amazon
not much can be said; the book is utter crap.

:P
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