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Literary Friction - Vile Bodies with Sara Pascoe

Literary Friction

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The Importance of Soft Science in Anthropology

I found my blood boiling and you're very honest in the book about the stuff that you encountered that made you like yeah feel lots of rage good old feminist anger it's a very powerful fool. I've been thinking vulva vulva oh it's such a oh what soft word what a velvety with such a beautiful word and then I said to John my boyfriend like I think actually it would be a beautiful name for a girl  and he was nearly sick like he had the reaction you had but just the sound of that word to him was the exact opposite of what it sounds like to me. And one of the other things I mean when you reference Darwin's nice soft future wife

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