'I write from the realms of the ugly for the ugly the frigid the unfucked and the
unfuckables all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh and for all those
guys who don't want to be protectors for those who would like to be but don't know how for
those who are not ambitious competitive or well-endowed. Because this ideal of the seductive
white woman constantly being waved under our noses - well I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist.'
Powerful provocative and personal King Kong Theory is a candid account of how the author of
Baise-moi came to be Virginie Despentes. Drawing from personal experience Despentes shatters
received ideas about rape and prostitution and explodes common attitudes towards sex and
gender. King Kong Theory is a manifesto for a new punk feminism reissued here in a brilliant
new translation by Frank Wynne.
