Rikki’s Reviews > The Word for Woman Is Wilderness > Status Update
Rikki
is 55% done
Really disgusted by the carnism in this. For all her criticism of the masculine Mountain Man™, unabashed speciesism for the "authenticity" is okay? I was lulled into a false sense of comradeship, but it appears only the "inedible" nonhumans are those worthy of our care and concern.
Optimistically, perhaps Abi is using this as a way to highlight the hypocrisy. (Probably not.)
Tilly is the hare is a dog is a woman.
— Sep 01, 2020 05:08PM
Optimistically, perhaps Abi is using this as a way to highlight the hypocrisy. (Probably not.)
Tilly is the hare is a dog is a woman.
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Rikki
is 9% done
Time to revisit, and it turns out it's the perfect time. Heavily needed.
— Feb 23, 2022 01:45PM
Rikki
is 88% done
I feel like I'll need to reread this at least once and not very long after I finish the first read-through to fully get my finger on what it is that I find so compelling and irritating about this book. There's so much in this, from theoretical and historical and sociological and postmodern and feminist standpoints, that to just give it a once-over is both doable and feels like an injustice. O, time! How you vex me.
— Sep 28, 2020 01:08PM
Rikki
is 23% done
"Cetaceans are women's allies in the war against patriarchy because patriarchy holds the cetaceans down with us. Orcas travel in matriarchal pods. The root of the word dolphin, delphus, means womb."
I love this book.
(Anyone who hasn't yet seen Blackfish and also gone vegan must do so.)
— Aug 23, 2020 12:26AM
I love this book.
(Anyone who hasn't yet seen Blackfish and also gone vegan must do so.)
Rikki
is 3% done
Agh my god, I'm loving this so much. I feel so much camaraderie with her. I see so much of myself reflected. I already want to meet this author and give her a really big really long hug.
— Aug 16, 2020 12:11AM
