Hermione Starts a Feminist Book Club

If you’ve been thinking for some time now how you’d love to see that cute chick from the Harry Potter movies start an online feminist book club, today’s your lucky day. Since being named U.S. Ambassador For Things Important to Women last year, Emma Watson has been Tweeting and sitting down with HuffPo and giving speeches to packed houses of Asian ministers imagining what she’d say to letting them tag her while watching Sorcerer’s Stone and pretending she’s still twelve. Maybe not so likely since they devalued the yen.

Some time back when absolutely nobody noticed, Watson announced the formation of an online book club for feminist literature and asked her followers to help pick out the name. I submitted Sheaf of Queefs. I think I got second place. Emma settled on Our Shared Shelf. Try saying that three times in a row fast while ordering Chinese and plunging a dildo into your cunny while watching a documentary on Georgia O’Keefe. Tough. And boring. Watson explained her inspiration for the book club:

As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading as many books and essays about equality as I can get my hands on. There is so much amazing stuff out there! Funny, inspiring, sad, thought-provoking, empowering! I’ve been discovering so much that, at times, I’ve felt like my head was about to explode… I decided to start a Feminist book club, as I want to share what I’m learning and hear your thoughts too.

With all those exclamation points how can you not be excited? I mean, excited! Five minute warning before your head explodes, please. Scanners. Mmm.

Already Gloria Steinem and Abby Wambaugh and other people that remind you why you’d never want to belong to a book club have signed up for Watson’s group on Goodreads. Sheepishly I admit I joined. Same reason I do voluntary janitorial work at Planned Parenthood. Go where the loose ladies are at. Essays on equality make me hot. I don’t care if that’s wrong. Let’s masturbate together while watching different porn.

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