Why I Am Not a Feminist -- Read and bitch with us!

In the 2007 film Teeth, a medical doctor inserts his digits into the protagonist's vagina only to have his fingers bitten off. Gripping his bleeding hand, he screams, “Vagina Dentata!! It does exist!” Well, it seems that Jessa Crispin, the author of Why I Am Not a Feminist thinks that, unlike the vagina in Teeth, feminism has lost its bite. Well, after the gentle gender analysis of The Left Hand of Darkness and the cooperative vibe of The Will to Change I decided to take us into increasingly more radical territory, just in time for those cozy talks over the holiday dinner table.

“Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist . . . or so the feminists keep insisting. But somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, ineffectual pose that barely challenges the status quo. In this bracing, fiercely intelligent manifesto, Jessa Crispin demands more.

Why I Am Not A Feminist is a radical, fearless call for revolution. It accuses the feminist movement of obliviousness, irrelevance, and cowardice—and demands nothing less than the total dismantling of a system of oppression.”
— Penguin Random House

“Radical change is scary. It’s terrifying, actually. And the feminism I support is a full-on revolution. Where women are not simply allowed to participate in the world as it already exists—an inherently corrupt world, designed by a patriarchy to subjugate and control and destroy all challengers—but are actively able to re-shapeit. Where women do not simply knock on the doors of churches, of governments, of capitalist marketplaces and politely ask for admittance, but create their own religious systems, governments, and economies. My feminism is not one of incremental change, revealed in the end to be The Same As Ever, But More So. It is a cleansing fire.”
— Jessa Crispin

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