Never knew there were (many) Irish on here, delighted I stumbled on this group link

If you’re interesting in feminism and sex, Jessica Valenti’s The Purity Myth (taking on the abstinence movement) and Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture are a good duo.

OMG Delusions of Gender was so good! I want to buy it for everybody now. If you haven’t read it I’d recommend Natalie Angier’s Woman: An Intimate Geography, a great science/sex/feminism read. Also Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, by Joan Roughgarden.

Yes, yes, yes. I remember watching that storyline for the first time and being cool with it, and then thinking about their characters on Buffy and then going, “wait… CORDELIA and ANGEL??!! ”
Fred is the best.

I really liked the idea of Cordelia/Angel more than the actual execution. I always thought they would (should) have been great together because they were also very good friends, whereas I never thought Buffy and Angel had a damn thing in common (other than the evil fighting) and I was never sure if they liked or even knew each other as people,…[Read more]