How's it hangin' Riot Grrrl...

[i_need_the_eggs]

I earnestly believe I am turning into some kind of uber-feminist, which is cool because then I can use the words "dyke" and "cunt" in everyday conversation and it'll be acceptable because there will be the tacit understanding that I'm being ironic. Here's my rationale: I just finished reading a memoir written by a super-lezzie poet Michelle Tea

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[paperispatient]

I earnestly believe I am turning into some kind of uber-feminist, which is cool because then I can use the words "dyke" and "cunt" in everyday conversation and it'll be acceptable...

Hee. This is why I enjoy reading your journal. Seriously, though, huzzah for feminism, I wish more guys were willing to identify themselves that way.

[sweet_adeline_]

is that your professor's real name?

[i_need_the_eggs]

No, that's just his stage name. His real name is Ted Danson.

[_snarla]

wait wait wait so you liked valencia? i'll cry if you didn't.

[i_need_the_eggs]

Yes I did like Valencia, but it was pretty reptitive for a 200 page book. For me the book just seemed to go in cycles every 50 pages or so and each time it cycled around it got less enjoyable. I enjoyed the first part of the book immensely. It just seemed like the book never went anywhere or had any plans on going somewhere in the first place, which I normally need and you normally don't. I actually think we've had this same argument about a different book (I think "Breakfast of Champions"). But I did like the book and can tell that Michelle Tea is a very talented writer, even if she did manage to make description of lesbian sex hum-drum by the end.

[_snarla]

nooooo...it's a memoir! i didn't think it was repetitive, maybe because often i paid more attention to the language she used than what was really the plot, if you will. and that little crack about lesbian sex at the end there says to me you weren't ready for this book, mister!

[i_need_the_eggs]

I am fully aware that it's a memoir, but even so an author can decide what aspects of their life to focus on. I simply thought the emphasis put on her seemingly incessant drinking, drug-use, and sex life could have been done much more effectively. What ended up happening for me was that all of her exploits sort of melded into one singular night of drinking a 40 in a paper bag, going to a dyke bar, doing some random drug, getting partially naked in public, longing after an ex-girlfriend, and then fucking a girl that she wasn't too interested

[geetar_slinger]

"I earnestly believe I am turning into some kind of uber-feminist, which is cool because then I can use the words "dyke" and "cunt" in everyday conversation and it'll be acceptable..."

Once i used the phrase "pinko commie fag" which had nothing to do with sexual orientation and was intended to be a statement about the demonization of the left and an ironic reference to a popular phrase of the 1960's, but evidently I'm not gay enough for that to come across.