Femlandia

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Such a twisted turn of events - over and over and over I found myself screaming at the pages, feverishly turning until I found out what would happen. After a violent encounter, Miranda does the last thing she would have expected: she seeks sanctuary at Femlandia, the all-female colony established by her estranged mother. There was a lot of conflict, bad decisions and Miranda getting into trouble or being put in isolation that you struggled to empathise with Emma at all and as a reader you never felt taken in by the place. Looting and rioting begins to intensify and for Miranda and her daughter - there is no where that is safe.

Then we drove home, got to business for the first time as husband and wife, and cozied up on the sofa with popcorn in time to see my mother on the television. It is boring, predictable and just shows how disconnected she is from whom I am fairly certain will be many of her readers. It's my bed, the one I shared with Nick for almost twenty years, a queen-sized mattress now in the hands of two burly men with tattoos and ponytails. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. We should hit the road soon, Emma and I, to get a start before the crowds turn our local Safeway into a kind of organized human zoo.The streets are already out of control, people are killing each other and they are afraid of taking their own lives. When I think of last year, of Nick bringing me breakfast in bed and showering me with two dozen yellow roses, I die a little on the inside.

Fuck this book and its harmful depictions of feminism, insulting portrayals of men, rampant transphobia, and boring one-dimensional characters. I kept waiting for Miranda to have some kind of revelation, some kind of compromise or reconciliation with the women of Femlandia, but chapter after chapter kept hammering it home: Miranda is right, and her mother is wrong. But upon learning this, our protagonist barely quibbles and the subject is brushed past never to be addressed again.cut off from the rest of the world, they have been thriving on their own for years, so this little societal collapse is just another day in the life for them. Unfortunately, I counted a little too long-by the time I worked up the courage to ask for a quote, no one had any cash left.

Gender dystopias and utopias are a long-standing thought experiment, and increasingly popular of late—worlds of only one gender, worlds where women (or men) are nearly extinct or second-class citizens. But that was before the country sank into total economic collapse and her husband walked out in the harshest, most permanent way, leaving her and her sixteen-year-old daughter with nothing. Another one of the many self-plagiarising ideas that we see used in all 3 of these novels is the idea of the "easily indoctrinated child". However, after losing her husband at the time that the world started breaking down Miranda was left to defend herself and her daughter and decided to take her daughter to Femlandia for protection.

Tonight she was on some stage in San Francisco-her excuse for not being there for me when I tied the knot-opining about all things Femdom. Of course, this is not a utopian society and, before long, Miranda realises that things are very wrong indeed. So Miranda can never take these realizations to their obvious conclusions, and the book ends up feeling like a thematic soup that doesn’t know what it wants to say. I don't think I ever realized until now how uptight we city women are—or were—how we constantly, incessantly protect ourselves by keeping our heads bent down at our phones or by examining an imagined hangnail, our subconsciouses expecting danger lurking around every corner.

With no where else to go and absolutely no one to take them in for shelter, they begin a long, hot walk to Femlandia — a womyn only community in nearby Virginia hidden deep in the woods. I did not like all the misandry which I felt was a bit extreme and left me wondering if there is such a thing as being too feminist. And those XX chromosomes identifying one as ‘female’ turn up frequently through the rest of the story.Women know why we are scared of men, what men can do but sometimes we forgot that women are just as scary. which, hey—your compound, your rules, but since there is no mention of trans men or nonbinary/genderqueer people anywhere in the book, it feels like dalcher just didn't want to have to bother with the complexities of gender identity, and dispensed with the matter, shutting it down in one short paragraph.