A reminder of how much work is left to do

In the year 2023 it can be easy to fall prey to the idea that women in the western world have reached such a stage of equality and self determination that feminism is no longer required to improve or help the human race; more specifically women- to evolve.

Susan Sontag brilliantly reminds us with biting dry wit and intellect how far we really have to go.

It’s not easy being a young woman in the 21st century and listening to words written almost 50 years ago that have not dated or aged a second since they were put to the page. Sontag brilliantly deconstructs the harsh truths of the patriarchal, classist and racist society we lived in then, and still live in now.

So little has changed and yet we believe that somehow in 50 years we have evolved beyond the time when Sontag was just explaining basic concepts to the masses.

We are still collectively asleep at the wheel and so few of us truly grasp the gravity and severity of how toxic and self mutilating our consumer society is.

‘On women’ is required reading for all women at any stage of life. It should be mandatory for all people to read in high school, and if it were I think we would just pierce the iceberg of inequality that plagues our complex and ever evolving human world.

With narration that brilliantly captures the fatigue and frustration that comes with Sontags observations ‘On Women’ will leave you feeling like you just learned how to open your eyes, and like your stomach had never been fed- hungry for more knowledge.

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