Poorly researched and lacking serious analysis, this ‘searing critique of male dominance’ is almost comically relentless
hen I was a student, there was a craze among a small group of my friends for a bestselling self-help book calledby an American therapist whose name was Robin Norwood. We were all feminists, though at this point the f-word was painfully unfashionable, and on our shelves was lots of seriously good – if then already slightly retro – theoretical stuff:by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, in its millionth edition.
For the reader, especially the reader who has never read a book or a newspaper, never watched any television or seen a film, Penny has all sorts of revelations. For instance: there are now more women in the “male workplace” than for centuries. Patriarchy, in case you don’t know, is a “power system based on male dominance” and consent “is not an object you can hold in your hand” .
But don’t be disheartened. Penny has good news, too. Like them, we may eventually be able to overcome our addiction to “predators with pretty eyes and a vacancy for a secret side-piece”. We may even wind up loving ourselves instead of just waiting around “for a man” to find us lovable .
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