[Civsoc-mw] Andrea Long Chu on Her Debut Book, ‘Females’

[Adamson S. Muula]

Sounds reasonable to me/ and if anything, everyone starts of pretty much as
a female when forming in the womb!

On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 04:51, Tony Thontholani <tonytontho at yahoo.com> wrote:

> In her first book, *Females*, out later this month, she posits a new
> theory about gender and sexuality, starting with the contention that
> “everyone is female.” (“I get criticized for projecting a lot,” she says
> dryly.) In Chu’s usage, female is a “universal existential condition,”
> defined by submitting to someone else’s desires. For example, even if you
> conceive of yourself as an alpha male who likes to top in bed, the desire
> to dominate is ultimately its own form of submission. “A top,” says Chu,
> “is just a bottom folded into another shape.” So why does she insist on
> calling a universal condition “female”? “Because everyone already does,”
> she writes. Women are the “select delegates” of this state of being.
>
>
> https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/andrea-long-chu-on-her-debut-book-females.html
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