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Article: Love Women or Die: Are We An Endangered Species?
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- May 1, 2000
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"Women are versatile, tough and contain within their variability all that falls within the range of normal... Women's lack of choosiness about who may be called a woman strengthens the impression that women do not see their sex as quite real, and suggests that perhaps they too identify themselves as the not-male, the other, any other."
Germaine Greer in The Whole Woman
Whether you're shaking your head in disbelief or nodding in recognition depends on how closely you've been paying attention to mass media and the other signifiers of pop culture and taste.
Shocking, but not surprising, absurd and yet appalling, persistent and unambiguous evidence ...