A few basic texts to put you in the mood:
Twisty Faster. Patriarchy-Blaming The Twisty Way. How to get the most out of your patriarchy-blaming experience. Highly recommended for first-time posters. This is, in fact, the FAQ.
Andrea Dworkin. Intercourse
Andrea Dworkin. Right-Wing Women
Germaine Greer. The Female Eunuch
Simone De Beauvoir. The Second Sex. (new translation!)
Shulamith Firestone. The Dialectic of Sex
Joanna Russ. How to Suppress Women’s Writing
Valerie Solanas. S.C.U.M Manifesto. Our traditional holiday text. “To be sure he’s a `Man’, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a `Woman’, the opposite of a `Man’, that is, the female must act like a faggot.”
Barbara Ehrenreich. “Welcome To Cancerland.” “[A]lthough we may imagine ourselves to be well past the era of patriarchal medicine, obedience is the message behind the infantilizing theme in breast-cancer culture, as represented by the teddy bears, the crayons, and the prevailing pinkness.”
Feminist Primers: a blamer-generated reading list.
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