BITCHING

by Marion Meade ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 3, 1973

Bitching, according to Ms. Meade, is the way in which females have through the ages saved their collective sanity, that is by ""gleefully removing the imperial male chauvinist's clothing."" From the comments of friends and family, she's bottled a witch's cauldron of venom under such striking headings as ""Sex and the Single Six-Year-Old,"" ""Gothic Abortion Tales"" and ""Sieg Heil!, Daddy,"" in which assorted Medusas get in as many digs and low blows as they can dredge up from their storehouse of grievances on masculine vanity, lust, bravado, stupidity and arrogance. Incidentally they are all talking about the socialization process -- internalizing the rudiments of male-female gamesmanship -- how the ""Little Darling"" on daddy's knee learns to be a dumb, cute, manipulative sex object because ""unfortunately, playing a little girl works."" Ail the observations are unflattering whether on male plumbing or office manners and any man masochistic enough to look through this may very well require the immediate ""ego transplant"" which Ms. Meade doesn't supply. Her specialty is the flip quip -- Daddy (""the sap""), the Bullying Boss and the Lousy Lover are all impartially flayed. Splenetic.

Pub Date: May 3, 1973

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Prentice-Hall

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1973

Categories: NONFICTION