Comments on: One For Your Summer Reading List

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:07:12 +0000

Hi – I hope you like it!

The bit about feminists – note that the blurb includes the word ‘many.’ We certainly don’t think or say that all feminists have been largely silent (we haven’t, for a start!) – more that it’s surprising and worrying that any have.

The Sholto Byrnes review is (cough) not the most accurate I’ve ever seen. I’m glad to see it made at least one person only more keen to read the book! Serves him right. mutter mutter.

By: rodriguez

rodriguez — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:06:22 +0000

ps I just finished reading “The Future of an Illusion” by Freud, which is related. (Guess what the illusion is.)

Freud briefly asks (in 1927) whether women have any lesser intelligence than men. He answers “I doubt it”. (Yeah I agree that’s kinda weak…) but he says that if it’s true at all it’s through conditioning only:

women labor under the harshness of an early prohibition against turning their thoughts to what would most have interested them-namely the problems of sexual life.

By: SarahMC

SarahMC — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:38:15 +0000

I would really like for you to do a book review on this! I love this topic, as a feminist and a former evangelican Christian – turned atheist.

By: rodriguez

rodriguez — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:27:42 +0000

It would be great for you to follow up here! I’ll look for it.

By: ImTheMarigold

ImTheMarigold — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:00:03 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation. I read Byrnes’ review and several comments that followed. All it did was make me want to read the book that much more, and I am in agreement with commentors aatishb and parrhesia_77.