Books like New, Improved! Dykes to Watch Out For
New, Improved! Dykes to Watch Out For
Alison Bechdel makes me laugh out loud. These books always remind me that none of the arguments and debates I have with my friends/family/etc are remotely new - they're decades old (at least). Reject the institution, or infiltrate and work within it? Therapy as elitist self-indulgence, or as a tool of feminist empowerment? At moments, DTWOF makes me think "God, here I am, reinventing the wheel and thinking I'm so cutting-edge and progressive. Ha!"I've been surprised by some of the trans-ignorance and gender policing that pops up every so often in these books. I guess I missed that when I skimmed these a while back. Maybe Alison Bechdel's shifted with respect to that stuff...