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hotelsongs:

If a novel is divided between Good Women and Bad Women, it is not a feminist novel.

I don’t care whether the Good Woman is a virtuous tower maiden and the Bad Woman has vagina dentata and knows how to use them or if the Good Woman is a sexy Wiccan part-time knight and the Bad Woman a moralizing icicle in skirts. If the women earn their morality by Doing Womanhood Right and Doing Womanhood Wrong, if the author can’t write a Good Woman without showing the malevolence of Bad Women who aren’t like her, the book’s not feminist. The paradigms themselves don’t matter.

(via still-sophistory)

#no wrong way to be a girl  #in fact  #even if there isn't a literal Bad Woman in the story  #and you're describing your Good Woman's attributes in a way that prescribes proper feminine behavior or appearance or choices  #you're still drawing a comparison with Bad Women and/or telling your readers how to be a girl  #and you are therefore still wrong  #isms  #good post  
1 year ago on April 27, 2012 at 03:17pm with 465 notes
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