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First World Feminism

What's the point of this website?

A fair question. Two quick answers:

1. Those of us lucky enough to live in the most progressive parts of the world tend to focus on how good we have it, and yet we still haven’t achieved true gender equality.

2. I’m over trying to pitch women’s magazines. If the story isn’t about slimmer thighs for summer, they’re just not interested.

This stuff is important, I’ll try not to make it too dry.

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April 19

A Feminist Harry Potter Type Book

My friend Emily recently encouraged me to read The Hunger Games, a science fiction, young adult novel, though I am neither a science fiction nor young adult fan.

It was great. Page turning, suspenseful, and best of all, it featured a strong, relatable female protagonist with nothing distinctly girly about her. It is a type of literary character the world needs more of.

The book is part of a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins (only two of the books have come out so far with the third slated for release in August 2010) and, according to Wikipedia, as of 2009, there are 500,000 copies of The Hunger Games in print and 26 foreign editions, and rights to the novel have been sold in 37 territories.

So the next time you’re buying that kind of book for yourself or as a gift, consider buying The Hunger Games instead of Harry Potter or Twilight. It’s legitimately feminist and legitimately good.

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