It had become just an academic word that was used by people who’d read all the books on feminism. Question: Why was (or is) there such a stigma around feminism?Īnswer: Because people weren’t using it. The 47-year-old author criticizes the beauty standards imposed on women, jokes about motherhood (“Children ruin everything”), argues that asking for consent can “be sexy” and talks about the pornography of the future. “And sometimes we saw angry women who hate men…But there’s so much more to feminism than that.” For 10 years, Moran has advocated for the right to choose abortion. “I was so sad when I wrote that book that people didn’t like feminism…and that people thought that feminists were just angry women who hated men,” Moran, who is visiting Mexico for Querétaro’s Hay Festival, said in a telephone interview with this newspaper. That and her later work have become gospel for those who needed to understand the 21st century’s gender challenges. Over the past decade, thousands of women have approached Moran to tell her that they didn’t know that they were feminists until they read her book How to Be a Woman. British author Caitlin Moran’s writing has become a Bible of sorts for many women around the world.
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