"Zits are beauty marks."

please read cunt. you will read it in like two hours. you will never laugh so hard. you’re going to want to call me every 30 seconds. it is the most next level and essential for our advanced feminist humor.

she talks in crazy detail about her abortions and how if you positively envision…

Oh yes. I seriously LOVE this book. It’s definitely essential reading for any feminist. If I have children I plan to pass it on to them like Our Bodies, Ourselves.

Probably my favorite part, or at least the part that stuck with me the most (I need to read it again. And again.), is the chapter titled “Whores,” in which author Inga Muscio researches ancient Sacred Whore temples and the history of whoredom, a once revered profession (for teaching “…tenderness, comfort, mystical enlightenment and sex”) that was then vilified and used against women, not unlike the word “cunt,” out of fear of female sexuality or as Inga calls it “cuntfear.”

She writes:

 “Is it a mere coincidence that women so specifically, physically associated with cunts have no rights in this culture? Get out. Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society. The fact that some women are considered “bad” is a puritanically based value judgment that reinforces a fatal division between women. Many women allow our lives and sexual expressions to be dictated by the threat of being perceived as “Whores.” Because of this, our society is brimming with women who have a hard time understanding, for instance, that Whores can be and are sexually assaulted.”

Preach.

I also love what she has to say about alternative products for menstruation. The Lilith Fair fan in me loves the idea of talking about sea sponges with women in a public bathroom. Basically this book fucking rocks and totally exploded my mindgrapes in the best way.