Full Frontal Feminism Chunk 3

Continuing with the next part of Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti she covers topics like weddings,marriage, baby's and a couple of other interesting topics.Valenti emphasizes on the fact that women are deceived to believe that they should spend most her their live looking for love and their knight in shinning armor. Valenti uses common things like love stories to show how they express women as hopeless individuals that need to be saved. Valenti shows that women spend more money then they have to have weddings like the story they read as kids. Valenti also covers the fact that men make more money then women. Even when a women and men have the same job the men are paid more. Valenti later goes on to talk about the stereotype that men aren't aloud to cry. She uses witty statement to show how dumb the stereotype is and how men should be able to cry when every they feel like it with out people questioning their manhood.

Tone:Satirical


Question 1: Why are women shown as such helpless people in common children stories?

Question 2: Do you think that Valenti's personal experiences are why she seems to have such a dislike for the topics in the book?

Full Frontal Feminism chunk 2

"Full Frontal Feminism" by Jessica Valenti is a satirical novel that focuses on the negative and positive lights shed toward feminist. She elucidates the stereotypes people place upon feminist and explains how everyone has some feminist characteristics. She uses facts and statistics that say women should be a certain way then shows how those same statistics contradict themselves. Valenti uses person experiences and facts to show her reader how culture,religion and society;are teaching them not to make their own decisions but to fall into the decisions their parent, role models,and leaders want them to make. Question1: Would Valenti's use of satire be offencive to those organizations she covered? Question2: How do the stereotypes Valenti covered relate to those people that don't consider themselves feminist?