![]() ![]() Once I got further into it I realized that I’ve never let trolls or the potential for harassment stop me from saying what I wanted. “Ha-ha, you think you’re a sex object and you’re hideous and horrible.” Of course, the irony is not recognizing that calling yourself a thing is not a compliment. I was imagining the backlash, the tweets (which I’ve already started to get). As soon as I thought of it, I put it out of my head, like: I could never call it that. When I looked at these essays I was working on, that theme of dissociative dehumanization kept coming up. I got halfway done with the book and realized that I was writing a book. But it was actually really cathartic.ĭid you start with the title? It came later. The Purity Myth was about shining a light on virginity culture and the way it harms women. ![]() The other books had a goal: Full Frontal Feminism I hoped would make younger women call themselves feminists when that really wasn’t yet in style. It is certainly more difficult waiting for it to release. Was this the most difficult one? In terms of actual writing, this came a lot easier. ![]()
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