Caitlin Moran, author of How to be a Woman
Joyce Park stashed this in Feminism
Stashed in: Women
The word “feminism,” Moran said, has for some reason gone off the rails to connote, incorrectly, preachy humorlessness and grim separatism. “When I talk to girls, they go, ‘I’m not a feminist,’ ” she said. “And I say: ‘What? You don’t want to vote? Do you want to be owned by your husband? Do you want your money from your job to go into his bank account? If you were raped, do you still want that to be a crime? Congratulations: you are a feminist.’ ”
Even more amusing:
Addressing in the book the vexing question of what to call your “No. 1 vestibule” — your vagina — she describes how she asked her 200,000-plus Twitter followers what they call theirs and immediately received more than 500 responses. (These included “tuppence,” “cupcake” and “Birmingham City Center.”)
4:41 PM Jul 15 2012