"the current empowering sexy-feminist wave" The Times review of Jo Brand's book

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"Brand’s claims that the female body is a site of “anxiety” and “shame”, and her dismissal of high-heels as “uncomfortable”, aren’t just boorish, but ignore the current empowering sexy-feminist wave."

I also give you "Brand’s round-up of types of feminism doesn’t even include the new trendy feminist movement. Her proposal that feminism needs rebranding suggests that she has missed the way it already has been."

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Thanks, so high-heels are not uncomfortable if you are a sexy-feminist, if only I'd known.

Both Jo Brand and Katie Glass seem to have an anachronistic understanding of modern feminism though.

I read that review and thought it was utterly stupid. Sexy feminism (not sure if that was meant to be tongue in cheek), the "fact" that periods are no longer taboo and in fact everyone talks about them all the time and women currently are in charge of everything so it's all fine.

I haven't read the book but I have more critical faculties than Katie Glass Half Full so I expect to have a different experience.

From the shared link.

but ignore the current empowering sexy-feminist wave. I don’t recognise her image of women desperately calling men, or being shamed for sleeping around. I don’t think her claim that periods are taboo is still true, given the run of tampon companies making “blood-normal” campaigns and tampon tax making endless headlines.

Sexy feminist wave

Is this the same as the Mexican Wave, really old fashioned and so now out of date I would be embarrassed if anyone started it.

Women desperately calling men

I don't understand what this means. I call my brother and my son. My employer is male. I'm never desperate when I call them. However, I do know women who desperately call men when they don't return their texts. I also know men who do exactly the same thing.

Shamed for sleeping around

This is the media who peddles this nonsense. The media is run by men. Men buy newspapers.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45918845

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www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7pqdzx/cmv_shaming_women_for_sleeping_with_many_is_no/

Periods are taboo.

That's not what was being discussed and it's ageist to suggest it was so. Get on the bandwagon and help end period poverty in the UK.

metro.co.uk/2018/05/06/4-ways-you-can-help-end-period-poverty-among-women-in-the-uk-7501654/

the current empowering sexy-feminist wave.

I’ve read that 10 times trying to work out if it satire or not. I suspect not.

Even the headline is infuriating. How disrespectful to call Jo Brand out of date. I don't think Ms. Glass sounds very feminist.

And the "empowering sexy feminist wave". Let's see how that works out for you when you have had babies/fibroids/prolapse/menopause ffs

The word "trendy" is so over, no one has used that this century, surely.

Anyone writing the words "the new trendy feminist movement" is a bit embarrassing.

I'm off to see Jo Brand in London tomorrow night. Anyone else going?

My DD at 15 has already been called a slut for having too many "boyfriends" so I don't know where she gets the idea from that women are no longer "shamed for sleeping around" (my 15 yo doesn't actually "sleep around" obvs!)

Yeah Jo, put some six-inch strappy stillettos on. They’ll empower you!

Do men need empowering with stilettos too?

Oh, hang on, maybe don't answer that one...!

My DD at 15 has already been called a slut for having too many "boyfriends" so I don't know where she gets the idea from that women are no longer "shamed for sleeping around"

Yeap, I don't know what world the author lives in but I remember how depressed I was when I realised that nothing had changed for my dd's generation.

Empowering sexy-feminism?

For the love of God, what?

I mean, that can't be a real, sincere thought, can it? You can't believe there is such a thing as 'sexy-feminism', can you?

Oh deary, deary me.