I frickin love it. great job hugh, i really really like your writing. you have any more i can check out? -- eric rmo
--ew
04/07 |
I loved this piece! If only I could get my mother to say "Everybody say cunt!"
--mb
04/05 |
A transgendered "Entre les muir." Good stuff.
--KsZ
04/04 |
https://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/04/03/by-any-other-name/
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04/03 |
This essay was so touching in an unexpected way. I second the cry, more Hugh Ryan!
--lko
04/03 |
and the point of this would be?
--dwp
04/02 |
We need to see more Hugh Ryan.
--www
04/02 |
im getting an m.a. in psychology right now and am about to start training with populations very different than myself- this story really calmed some of my fears and realize that there can be an eventual ease about dealing with sticky situations. awesome essay- thanks!!
--AL
04/02 |
This summer, a very sexually explicit book of mine is being published. For the years that it took me to write it, I used the word cunt exclusively to refer to lady parts. I wanted the strongest word in our language to represent my favorite part of the human form. But the word became a stumbling block in editorial. After doing a little field testing of my own, I wholeheartedly got on board with the decision to replace cunt with strong alternatives: several people I showed the book to had nearly violent reactions against that word, so much so that none of the rest of the book even got through to them. (One woman got tears in her eyes she was so offended.) I had become so steeped in the cunt-friendly feminist literature (Ensor's cunt rant in the Vagina Monologues along with the pieces you mention here), that I thought the word had been broadly reclaimed by sex-positive feminism. Net yet apparently. All this is to say thanks for this wonderful contribution to cunt-pride. I love, love, love it.
--AC
04/02 |
That essay was cunt!
--FT
04/02 |
Fantastic essay. I love that it has an almost academic tone to it, while still remaining so vivid and personal. Also a really interesting take on linguistics. Cheers!
--VF
04/02 |
Beautiful essay. Thank you.
--GE
04/02 |
One of the best constructed, most original essays I have read in a long time. Sets an entirely new standard for thinking about words and how we understand them. Thanks for posting this.
--sm
04/02 |
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