Category Archives: Suzanne Cope

Feminist self loathing

Feminists have long struggled to define their driving sense of discontentment.  Understanding this sense of discontentment is critical to understanding feminism itself.  If you don’t know what feminists are devoting their lives in reaction against, you won’t understand what feminism … Continue reading

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Culinary frigidity.

Suzanne Cope describes her long battle to overcome crippling dysfunction.  As often happens, she learned her hangups at an early age from her mother and grandmother.  They taught her that giving pleasure to someone, giving of herself, is degrading and shameful;  good … Continue reading

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