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

[Keyboard Boyd Kilembey]

Mfana you talk of the police? They used to come even at Lilongwe hotel and
arrest all women there and they would sex them in exchange for a release.
There is no police in Malawi but thugs. Why should a woman not enjoy
herself at Lilongwe hotel? Malawi is the only country women can not move
freely. Worse than Saudi Arabia. Mac Hende Akor.

On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, 20:42 Maybach Woyee, <mbchwoyee5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Stories of sexual harassment are rampant in Malawi, why? I am very
> disappointed to hear about Police harassing women in Nsundwe likewise
> lecturers at University of Malawi demanding sexual favors for Mark's with
> young girls. This is pathetic
>
> On Thu, 24 Oct. 2019, 07:39 Adamson S. Muula, <amuula at medcol.mw> wrote:
>
>> 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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