{"id":663,"date":"2008-04-02T16:05:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T06:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/02\/blog-posts-about-that-book\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T16:05:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T06:05:48","slug":"blog-posts-about-that-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/02\/blog-posts-about-that-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Posts About “That Book”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"That<\/a>I told myself I wasn’t going to write about the Porn for Women book<\/a> anymore because I’m sick of feeding their first page Google ranking while my blog languishes in purgatory for this particular term. But I can’t help it. Today I found the Chronicle Books blog<\/a> which has a number of posts by the authors of “that book.”<\/p>\n

One asks women to submit “fantasies” for future books. Readers have happily responded with more apparently unattainable dreams about men being nice to them.<\/p>\n

What’s more interesting is that they’ve responded to the feminist criticism<\/a> in their Amazon reviews and at Feministing. I’m not sure the response is as comprehensive as it could be, but it’s nice to hear their point of view nonetheless.<\/p>\n

I’m still not sure where I stand with this whole thing. Yes, it’s a joke, I get it. And yes, it does play on stereotypes and maybe that’s a bad thing. Yes, I’m frustrated that “porn for women” is now associated with housework, when I’ve been trying hard for years to get people to take it seriously.<\/p>\n

And I’m definitely pissed off that there’s a top ten spot in Google for a certain search term that will forever belong to “that book.” Yes, I know that’s kinda petty.<\/p>\n

Here’s my previous post on the topic.<\/a> I’ll try and leave it alone now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I told myself I wasn’t going to write about the Porn for Women book anymore because I’m sick of feeding their first page Google ranking while my blog languishes in purgatory for this particular term. But I can’t help it. Today I found the Chronicle Books blog which has a number of posts by the authors of “that book.” One asks women to submit “fantasies” for future books. Readers have Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[138,621],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-popular-culture","tag-books","tag-porn-for-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t