![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The repression of emotions and the silencing of sensitivity." (p.26) "What, in fact, is required of a real man?" she asks. She notes again how this arrangement also hurts men. It is a "way of apologizing, of reassuring men" that all women want is to please them, she says. ![]() She cites early twentieth-century psychoanalyst Joan Rivière and her 1929 paper Womanliness as a Masquerade, in which Rivère discusses a nervous woman who compulsively attracts male attention as "a step toward propitiating the avenger in endeavoring to offer herself to him sexually." Despentes say this analysis helps explain "the flood of 'hooker-chic' in contemporary popular culture" (p.19). The book is split into seven short sections or essays:ĭescribing her target audience, Despentes says "I am writing as an ugly one for the ugly ones: the old hags, the dykes, the frigid, the unfucked, the unfuckables, the neurotics, the psychos, for all those girls who don't get a look in the universal market of the consumable chick." She adds that she also has sympathy for men who fall into similar categories: "I prefer the guys who don't make the cut for the simple reason that I myself often don't make it."ĭespentes considers the backlash to the sexual revolution and its effect on the self-image of women. ![]()
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