[Frida Fantastic]

Okay. Edited the blog soapbox opinion post to be more specific. "...Being a product of second wave feminism with a focus on a white American middle-class perspective makes it dated." I didn't mean to mischaracterize the second wave, I just wasn't using specific terms. My bad. Thanks for the feedback. What else of Russ should I check out? She wrote some space opera too, didn't she?

Also, I don't mean to refer to The Female Man as ridiculous in a negative doesn't-make-sense sort of way. It's ridiculous in terms of its format and what it throws at the reader, sort of fantastical-with-no-bounds sort of ridiculous. I'd describe Snow Crash as ridiculous in structure, but frivolous in message. The Female Man is ridiculous in structure, but bitingly funny and intelligent with really valuable content. Kind of like how I'd call Kafka's The Trial absurd. It is absurd, but it's also intelligent, funny, and not frivolous at all. Gnah, language!