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    Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist

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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    I assume she was a promiscuous lesbian.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    Oh gosh-
    "Gynocrat" is a horrible word. I'm getting these dystopic sci-fi novel-images of gynoid police with evil plastic boobplates and a big purple and green vagina-in-the-roof commanding us all to VOTE GYNO and OBEY, OBEY, MOTHER KNOWS BEST. Light shines out of it. Martin Amis smiles serenely.
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    11/20/09

    @effgeevee: Hah, and the giant vagina is all mind-control-y, like the giant brain from a Wrinkle in Time.
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    Image of V-Tron V-Tron
    11/21/09

    @effgeevee: Imagine a stilletto stamping on a human face, forever.
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    Image of effgeevee effgeevee
    11/21/09

    @V-Tron: ..ExACTly.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    Also his hair could not look more ridiculous. What is he going for with that mess?
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    How can someone so intelligent be so dumb?
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    Image of JessIsElf-ity JessIsElf-ity
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    Sir, I think you need to take a step back and look at the culture of your own gender. When you've had a nice, long look, you can come back and tell me that it's feminism's fault that your sister was victimized. If you want to keep blaming this woman for being abused and such, look at who was abusing her, not at whether or not she had the gall to be sexually empowered.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    I hate the concept of the sexual revolution. Media myth.
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    11/20/09

    @bluebears: I prefer the idea of a sexual convolution. Or convulsion. Whichevs.
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    11/20/09

    @andBegorrah: oh I LOVE sexual convulsions. Is Showgirls your favorite movie too?
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    Image of 5ft of fury 5ft of fury
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    Dear Mr. Amis (or is it Sir Amis?),
    Writing a book that deals mostly with women, and features a woman as a central character does not make the book "feminist". Referring to feminists as "they", blaming the sexual revolution for moral decline, and your concern for your late sister's sexuality betrays your antiquated notions of gender and sex. Liking to shag women does not mean that you yourself are a feminist. Please read some books on feminism, take women's studies classes, or hell just TALK to women and men about feminism.
    Sincerely,
    A woman who identifies as a feminist
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    Image of andBegorrah andBegorrah
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    "You, alright?! I learned it by watching you!"

    Parents who use contrarian sexist banalities have children who use contrarian sexist banalities.
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    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    I think what she was doing was seeking protection from men, but it went the other way, she was often beaten up, abused and she simply used herself up,"

    Yeah, the men had nothing to do with that. Damn sexual freedom for making my sister beat herself up.
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    Image of LutherNipperkin LutherNipperkin
    11/20/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: He ran into my knife. He ran into my knife five times.
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    Image of Highsmith Highsmith
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    "I think what she was doing was seeking protection from men, but it went the other way, she was often beaten up, abused and she simply used herself up"

    Sounds like she wasn't a victim of the sexual revolution but a victim of the men who beat her & abused her.
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    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    11/20/09

    @Highsmith: Sorry, I was posting this at the same time.

    And exactly.
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    Image of zu_zu zu_zu
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    Wow, just reading the blurb in The Guardian, seems like he's missing the whole impact of her "depression and alcoholism" on her behavior. Likely her illness lead to her acting out in many ways, not just sexually, so to blame it on the sexual revolution is as ludicrous as asserting that people with mental illnesses are possessed by demons. Seems like he manages to trivialize both feminism and mental illness in one fell swoop.
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    11/20/09

    @zu_zu: I'm not sure - he's on to a powerful metaphor here:
    after a revolution we are left with "not an heir but a pregnant widow".

    "In other words, revolution isn't a flip," said Amis. "It's a churning process that goes on for a long time before the baby is born. It's not the instant replacement of one order by another."
    I think that the article is the bigger problem. It doesn't really get him to elaborate, the crucial threads that tie together these themes are absent. It doesn't even really try.

    It seems like a cheap ploy to get publicity by focusing on the author's peculiarities.
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    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    Right. Because pressure on women to have sex is totally feminist.
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    Image of HarpMadness HarpMadness
    11/20/09

    @J.D.Regent: On the one hand, we're uptight boner-killers who need to be more "sex positive", on the other, we're forcing women to have so much sex we end up all messed up.

    One personality disorder ... er "trait" that many ultra-conservatives have is that they tend to be able to hold two opposing and contradictory thoughts in their head at the same time without cognitive dissidence. Go figure.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    11/20/09

    @J.D.Regent: It's all there in the seminal treatise Drop Them Panties: Give Up That Ass Ladies, by Gloria Steinem.
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    Image of TurnItOff TurnItOff
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    I'm not sure he understands how little control women had over their sex lives in the times before the sexual revolution. Also, quit worrying about your sister's vagina.
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    Image of pesematology pesematology
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    Is she alive? If so, what does she think of this?
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    Image of shevralay shevralay
    11/20/09

    @pesematology: She died in the 2000s, apparently.
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    11/20/09

    @shevralay: I guess it's good for her sake, then, that he waited until after her death to be so offensively dismissive of both her personal experiences and those of women in general
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    Image of shevralay shevralay
    11/20/09

    @pesematology: Yeah, it's rather obscenely cowardly to publish something like that after she's no longer able to respond to it.
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    Image of Dodgergirl Dodgergirl
    11/20/09

    In reply to Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist
    I.... what?
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