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Katie Roiphe
Birth date: January 01, 1968
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coffee & ink
coffee & ink rated it 12 years ago
Victim-blaming rape apologism. Roiphe argues that date rape doesn't exist/isn't really rape/is all mixed communications, based on the "evidence" that none of her friends have told her about being raped (except for the one that did). Well, no shit. If one of my friends had Roiphe's opinions, I wou...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 12 years ago
Well, she does have some good points about how some people narrowly define feminism. I do think feminism should be able to debate topics. However, honestly, if you are going to say rape statstics are wrong or inflated, you need to offer more proof than it doesn't seem to happen at the two colleges...
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Cecily's book reviews rated it 16 years ago
A multiple biography, looking at seven literary “marriages” in the Bloomsbury set (London literati of 1910-1939). At least one of each couple had other relationships with the knowledge and usually consent of the other. It includes HG Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Vanessa Bell, Ottoline Morrell and Rad...
Minor Characters
Minor Characters rated it 17 years ago
Uncommon Arrangements seems a simplistic title at first, until the reader begins to realize how very complicated and uncommon the subjects are. Though the era she focuses on overlaps with WWI, some of the unions author Katie Roiphe details may seem shocking or odd, even to modern readers. There is...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 31 years ago
A self-identified feminist blames feminism for failings in modern society. Yeah, of course, rape is a problem caused by feminism. Gack. When will those feminists stop raping themselves?
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