While this isn’t sufficient space to summarize all Moran says, hers was a feminism that struck me as being utterly new and timely. She argues for both an honesty about the ways in which women have been and are still our society’s “losers”—forced to wear heels, wax our pubes, have wombs—and a reformation of the notion that feminism should be about loving women above loving men. Feminism, she reminds, means equality. One of the things I have appreciated about my years of being the only female editor of this magazine is that I have never been regarded as such. Perhaps because this magazine was born of friendships rooted in love and comedy, creating something alongside these individuals, I am free to be “one of the guys.” At the end of her book, Moran argues that so being is the ultimate goal of feminism, at least for her. This sentiment thrills me.

So to that concerned reader, I hear you. I think about these things some. But Wag’s Revue is never going to consider a contributor’s gender above the quality of his or her writing or the originality of his or her vision. In this issue, it’s worth mentioning, we have roughly the same number of female and male contributors. This didn’t occur by design. Lucky number thirteen, I guess.

Enjoy,
Sandra Allen
Managing Editor,
Wag’s Revue