3.5 if we’re being honest.

i was hooked from the start when she proposed for women to seize the means of reproduction like shulamith you’re very funny. sth id tweet for sure. i generally think that some of what she has come up with is in a positive sense some of the most revolutionary and necessary contributions to the feminist thought and conceptualisation of a revolution, in particular xenofeminism, abolishing the applied/empirical science and arts/humanities divide and integrating of marxism, freudianism into a radical feminist framework of a societal revolution. it’s incredible that she wrote this at 25

however, i have two enormous qualms:

1. chapter 5: shulamith firestone please never write about race again
2. children: i think she has a fundamental misunderstanding of child psychology. her points about liberating children, while interesting at first, are taken to such a radical extreme as to imply that age should be culturally disregarded within a sexual/relationship context which is a dangerous, uninformed, and an inane conclusion for a feminist to make. it would only enable pedophilic, abusive relationships between parties that are just neurologically superior one to the other, whether shulamith likes it or not. dismissing child and developmental psychology as a product of the reality it is describing can only go so far and implying that children have the capacity to function as adults fully integrated in every way in human society contradicts aby care for the wellbeing of children and is utopian at best, extremely ridiculous and dangerous at worst (at present)

both of the issues have the ability to question the credibility of anything she posits in the rest of her book, however i find incredible merit in some of her other analysis as well as a good literary talent. i just think some of her inferences are self-serving and biased, without taking into consideration their uninformed nature and logical fallacies