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Cheating On Your Politics
In her new book, Spent, Alison Bechdel once again gives us people whose lofty ideas about society exceed their ability, or willingness, to change it.
Soon enough, Bechdel would discover that sex with other women was “merely the tip of the lesbian iceberg.” “What lurked beneath was a worldview, an entire logical system in which homophobia was inextricably linked to sexism and racism and militarism and classism and imperialism,” she has written. Meanwhile, down the road, Alison’s friends Sparrow and Stuart embark on a surprisingly sweet experiment in ethical nonmonogamy, supported by a familiar group of aging dykes whom Bechdel has grandfathered in from DTWOF. The reader of Dykes to Watch Out For will recognize Alison as a new, unimproved version of Bechdel’s comic-strip alter ego, Mo: a total drag who rails against the capitalist war machine but is too self-absorbed to picket a homophobic business.
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