


So begins Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory, a book that has been exalted-and criticized-for its provocative text and insight into femininity and womanhood. “I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the old, the bull dykes, the frigid, the unfucked, the unfuckable, the hysterics, the freaks, all those excluded from the great meat market of human flesh.”
