King Kong Theory

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‘I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and for all those guys who don’t want to be protectors, for those who would like to be but don’t know how, for those who are not ambitious, competitive, or well-endowed. Because this ideal of the seductive white woman constantly being waved under our noses — well, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t exist.’
Powerful, provocative and personal, King Kong Theoryis a candid account of how the author of Baise-moi came to be Virginie Despentes. Drawing from personal experience, Despentes shatters received ideas about rape and prostitution, and explodes common attitudes towards sex and gender. King Kong Theory is a manifesto for a new punk feminism, reissued here in a brilliant new translation by Frank Wynne.

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Upphovsrättsinnehavare: Bookwire
Ursprunglig publicering: 2020
Utgivningsår: 2020
Förlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Översättare: Frank Wynne

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Александр Малининhar citeratför 3 månader sedan
when the day comes that men are afraid of having their dicks hacked off with a box-cutter if they force themselves on a woman, they’ll learn pretty quickly to control their ‘manly’ urges, and understand the meaning of the word ‘no’
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Александр Малининhar citeratför 3 månader sedan
Men vehemently denounce social or racial injustices, but are tolerant and understanding when it comes to macho bigotry. Many of them feel obliged to explain that the feminist struggle is secondary, a hobby for the rich, that is neither significant nor urgent. You’d have to be a complete fuckwit, or deeply dishonest, to consider one form of oppression intolerable and another deeply poetic.
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hese days, we hear men bitching that women’s liberation is emasculating them. They yearn for a status quo ante, when their power was rooted in the oppression of women. They forget that the political advantages they enjoyed always came at a cost: women’s bodies belonged to men only inasmuch as men’s bodies belonged to the means of production in peacetime, and to the state in time of war. The expropriation of the female body coincided with the expropriation of the male body.
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