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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Strange but true?

This article about Sheila Jeffreys from the Guardian is great.

I am amazed by facts quoted such as,

"a Home Office paper [claims] that BSE can be transmitted through beauty products because [they] many contain bits of dead animal"

"Breast implants can contain brain, fat, placenta and spleen"

It also describes Jeffreys as citing "one example of a porn actor who sold bits of her genitals to "fans" over the internet after a labiaplasty operation."

2 comments:

Joel said...

Sound of one jaw dropping re: the porn star.

I think Sheila is an extremist, but ~we need extremists like her~, especially since things are leaning hard, very hard, in the other direction. Society is about compromises and negotiations. If someone like Sheila doesn't exist, we will get a different kind of extremism governing our lives.

Interesting article. Thank you for sharing it.

TP said...

Thanks for the offer Laurelin, but after reading the article I dashed straight over to Amazon and bought myself a copy (plus two other feminist text that totalled about £3, bargain!).

Now I'm all excited!