What Jill Fillipovic said… Well, maybe not

Excuuuuuuse me ladies, for liking the cover of Jessica Valenti’s book. Yep, liking it. Not tolerating it, or excusing it on grounds of potential marketability, but actually thinking that it was both funny and fun. As a person in love with book cover pop-art, as someone who regularly browses the “new arrivals” shelves just to see how certain material will be advertised – I say that the cover fits the book’s tone and target audience almost perfectly. I enjoy looking at pretty pictures of the female form, as well as giggling-good sexual innuendo, almost as much as I enjoy the peddling process itself – that certain bit of strange voodoo magic that inspires an individual to pause, and possibly shell out money. So yeah, I like the cover. And no, I’m not going to pay lip service to the idea that, all issues of fun aside, we live in a weird, imperfect, quite possibly sick society (as most human beings do). I suspect my readers aren’t drooling idiots – they can figure that stuff out for themselves, and challenge it or explore it as necessary.