A Bout of Feminism

Being a feminist is not all it's cracked up to be, you know. I've spent countless years trying to make public the plight of women and curb injustice. All these blokes have oppressed women, making jokes of our knickers, trying to attack us on the streets or in the loo when they're pissed. Men have treated us as sexual objects for centuries and women have become the objects of sexual conquest. I vowed I shant ever allow myself to succumb to the frightful world of male-domination. All these years I've tried to help women keep the same mindset. My book, The Feminine Mystique, is a bible for women confidence and is the only book which will really help women fight the male machine. However, I've found recently that I have run into a somewhat extraordinary conundrum--after watching  the second episode of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, I realised sexism really is funny. It's a bloody life's-worth of work wasted.

And I'm not even British.

--Betty Friedan