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1
Cliffe's freakout is absolutely perfect.
2
That strain of feminism has always seemed sort of bad-tasty. It says "Hey, you know what we need to fight essentialism? More essentialism!" If someone were to pull that same kind of crystal-waving new age horseshit with matters of race or sexual orientation it would be way, way more squicky and hideous. As much as I roll my eyes at the "everything-is-a-social-construct-now-let's-name-drop-Foucault" side of things, at least that end of the spectrum would never use a term as utterly godawful as "Goddess Array."
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(A typo. Ugh. Stupid lack of comment editing.)
4
It's a pomegranate of despair.
5
It's disappointing but not totally surprising as she's gotten a bit wacky/paranoid since the late 90s.

I do love watching literati collectively, gleefully rip a book to shreds, though.
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@Right Reverend: I fixed it for you as a reward for saying something I agree with.
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Also, usage of the word "yoni" is grounds for instant and eternal banishment to Tartarus. UGH.
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Thanks, Alison!
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I first heard of it when Katie Roiphe did a takedown of it on Slate. The book is apparently so bad it made Katie Roiphe actually look right about something for a moment.
10
The New Yorker review was pretty lollerific.
11
Pillowpants is real?
12
It's a Dong-cave.

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