I stumbled across this while researching old feminist publications. I can’t really explain why I liked it so much.
I don’t agree with the author’s perspective, but it’s a point of view I’d never heard before, and she writes beautifully, with wit and humor and pain.
tbh I think the article is likely intended to be problematic, challenging, self-oriented, etc. - it reminds me of other Millennial “feminist” voices, like Lena Dunham (who also writes and embodies characters that are self-absorbed, problematic, neurotic, and who have bodies that are outside what is considered acceptable - e.g. her recent TV show Too Much, or her show Girls)
that said, it does make it harder to tell where the irony ends and sincerity begins - but maybe that’s OK, part of the point is about just hearing the woman shouting into the void, I think there is a kind of catharsis in this for other women who have been victimized (and maybe in the case of this article, who have given up or developed different ways of thinking)