Miranda sadly makes a good point in that lack-of-tagging for feminist books presumably is more of an indication that detractors don’t much need to care, than that… books about feminism are generally adored. But I think this is a nice example of a female-dominated section of internet culture organising to invade the mainstream with sensibleness.

I may write my PhD in crayon.

further reading: http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/09/06/sex-lies-and-irb-tape-netporn-to-surveyfail/

My personal faves are “who needs peer review” (182), “phds written in crayon” (218), and “unforgivable tripe”.

To see whether feminist books are the subjects of any antifeminist tagging, I took a look at Kat Banyard’s “The Equality Illusion” – she’s clear so far, and only has “feminism” and things like that.

Then I tried Natasha Walter’s “Living Dolls”. That one has some critical tags in very small numbers, but few are antifeminist. One is “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” (1 user) but also there are tags like “feminist silence over islam” which could be interpreted in a couple of ways, one of which isn’t antifeminist per se (and another of which is possibly anti-islamic).

Then I tried The Beauty Myth and got, again, mainly factual or uncritical tags. Apart from “chick science” (1 user) and “fantasy” (1 user) which could be a criticism or a descriptor of the issues it’s tackling!

I think the sad truth is that books like the one the OP is about are more widely read and plugged than feminist writing, though, hence the higher number of tags. I don’t think feminist books get less bad tags because they are better (well, I think the ones above are, but I also don’t think this magically protects them from shit-slinging; if it did, what a lovely world we’d have!); rather feminism’s detractors often don’t want to actually read about what feminism really might be about at all.

“phds written in crayon” cheers me greatly, though, when all is said and done! :D

self-serving(156)
abuse of power(143)
illegal war(113)
evil(112)
worst prime minister ever(100)

And that’s after Amazon took “War Criminal” down from the 1st spot…

“Best PM ever” has 17 votes, just for balance. It’ll be skewed in favour of the part of the population who have access to the net and Amazon, but in general I think it’s a wonderful tool for showing real public opinion. Of the psuedo-science book, “My cat does better science” was my fave :D

Men and women have hardwired sexual cues analogous to our hardwired tastes-there are sexual versions of sweet, sour, salty, savory, and bitter. But men and women are wired with different sets of cues.

mostly because a) savory is not a taste category and b) that’s all they are, arbitrary categories of the spectrum of taste, and not “hard wired” at all. (They’d have been better off using the three colours, at least they are perceived descretely)