For all her Bohemian, get up the woman cannot write a play because her head is full of grocery lists. If you read Prudence Allen’s The Concept of Woman, satirical misogynist verse is effectively a subgenre of its own. Usually very funny in a nasty way. Often the authors come to a sticky, well deserved end.
Funnily enough, too, a lot of that satirical misogynist verse was written by women --- even nastier to one another than even R.B.B. Sheridan could be! (though maybe they didn't bite or threaten to come back and haunt people . . .)
I wanted to read one text in this genre that Prudence Allen mentions, Where the author argues satirically from scripture that God did not intend to create women. I love showing students examples of text, which say the opposite of what they mean. So I got it from Amazon, and it came down together with a piece of pornography, which I tore off and threw away.
For all her Bohemian, get up the woman cannot write a play because her head is full of grocery lists. If you read Prudence Allen’s The Concept of Woman, satirical misogynist verse is effectively a subgenre of its own. Usually very funny in a nasty way. Often the authors come to a sticky, well deserved end.
Funnily enough, too, a lot of that satirical misogynist verse was written by women --- even nastier to one another than even R.B.B. Sheridan could be! (though maybe they didn't bite or threaten to come back and haunt people . . .)
Women are madams in brothels too!
I wanted to read one text in this genre that Prudence Allen mentions, Where the author argues satirically from scripture that God did not intend to create women. I love showing students examples of text, which say the opposite of what they mean. So I got it from Amazon, and it came down together with a piece of pornography, which I tore off and threw away.
I'll take Mary Leapor, for $500, Alex.
But WHERE will you take her?