kab reviewed King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes
King Kong Theory
1 star
A shambles, outside of writing about her personal history. Misogynist yardsticks aren't reclaimable and don't depose the male gaze. Exudes not-like-other-girls vibes in distorting consequence for cause in prizing masculinity and maligning femininity. Haphazard groundless arguments including following MRA posturing, plural Julie Delpy-style white woman statements ('It's harder to be a woman than to be Black'), a parade of astonishingly bizarro world misfires.
When President Sarkozy demands a police presence in schools or Ségolène Royal instructs the army to patrol certain areas of major cities, they are not showing children a virile embodiment of the law but the extension of the mother’s absolute power.
…women would do well to consider the advantages of men becoming active fathers, rather than simply to content themselves with having power bestowed on them politically through the exaltation of maternal instinct.
After several years of genuine, sincere, and rigorous research, I have come to the …
A shambles, outside of writing about her personal history. Misogynist yardsticks aren't reclaimable and don't depose the male gaze. Exudes not-like-other-girls vibes in distorting consequence for cause in prizing masculinity and maligning femininity. Haphazard groundless arguments including following MRA posturing, plural Julie Delpy-style white woman statements ('It's harder to be a woman than to be Black'), a parade of astonishingly bizarro world misfires.
When President Sarkozy demands a police presence in schools or Ségolène Royal instructs the army to patrol certain areas of major cities, they are not showing children a virile embodiment of the law but the extension of the mother’s absolute power.
…women would do well to consider the advantages of men becoming active fathers, rather than simply to content themselves with having power bestowed on them politically through the exaltation of maternal instinct.
After several years of genuine, sincere, and rigorous research, I have come to the conclusion that femininity is the same thing as bootlicking. The art of servility.
I am not saying that being a woman is in itself a painful constraint. Some women do it very well. It’s the obligation which is degrading. Of course the great seductresses are right up there in terms of reputation. Figure skaters are pretty cool, too—but no one expects us all to be figure skaters. Horsewomen have their own special charm—but you don’t get given a saddle and bridle the moment you want to exist.
