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Fundamentally, I think this author and I agree on many things, and she has some really good messages about body acceptance, empowerment, and sisterhood. However, what kept me from truly enjoying this book and recommending it as a good feminist read is that it is written with such vitriol and in such inflammatory language that it became hard to relate with many times. I recall when I read Muscio's near exaltation of Aileen Wuornos as a kind of feminist folk hero, I truly balked. While I think the intensity and rage at a patriarchal system resonates with a lot of women (including me), the extremism of this book really put me off and distracted me from all of the valid points that Muscio makes. I was also put off by Muscio's views on birth control pills and the fact that she asserts her opinions as hard and true facts.

Reading some of the reviews on this site, I see that this book has lead some people to discover/identify their own feminism, and that's great. I, however, just could not relate to the undercurrent of extremism and separatism, it did not mesh well with me.