Posted on 06/14/2025 7:19:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
'My mother coined an expression for casual sex: 'The 'zipless (explitive),' writes Molly Jong-Fast in her new memoir, How to Lose Your Mother.
'Now think about being the offspring of the person who wrote that sentence. And pour one out for me.'
Molly's mother is 1970s feminist icon Erica Jong.
Best known as the author of the seminal, semi-autobiographical novel Fear of Flying - a book that caused a scandal at the time, thanks to its uncensored portrayal of female sexuality - Jong was wildly celebrated, with appearances on Johnny Carson, a Newsweek cover and friendships with the rich and famous.
Now, Molly's memoir reveals not just the reality of growing up in the orbit of a glamorous, sexually uninhibited woman, but her heartbreaking descent - and slow disappearance - into the prison of Alzheimer's.
'She would always say that I was everything to her,' Molly writes in the memoir. 'She would always tell anyone who listened that I was her greatest accomplishment in life.'
But, she adds, 'I always knew that wasn't the truth… I found her disinterested. Impossible to connect with.
'I wish I'd asked her why, if she loved me so much, she didn't ever want to spend time with me.'
Now, it's too late. While Jong still recognizes her only daughter, Molly says she doesn't remember much else - not her grandchildren, and sometimes she doesn't even remember that she was once a famous writer.
As her mother slips away, Molly finds herself faced with a terrible dilemma: How can she come to terms with losing her mother when she never really had her in the first place?
Married four times, Jong was not really a woman's woman, her daughter now admits somewhat guiltily (and ironically, considering her place in the second-wave feminist pantheon).
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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I think it was fear of flying that I read by her.
Sounds fascinating. The books will be flying off the shelf /s
I think it was a bestseller in the 70s.
How was it?
There’s ‘Saints and Ain’ts’
in this
Upholstered Sewer.
If you listen carefully, you can hear Michael Jackson’s surviving siblings shaking their heads in disapproval over someone exploiting a family member for personal gain like this.
Erica Jong is still alive.
A “feminist” who just couldn’t get enough of men.
Who?
Seriously, who?
I don’t recall, some of the feminist books didn’t stay with me.
The zip less f@@k
Boring.
The zip less f@@k
Boring.
Funny...I just had her pop up in my memory a couple days ago. I read Fear of Flying but don’t really remember it...just that it pushed the limits at the time...but actually probably turned me off to a lot of feminist stuff.
This seems sad for all involved.
Definitely.
At the time, other disordered Leftists felt validated by her work. They don't talk about it much because even reading it made them worse after the initial hoopla died down.
Who?
Seriously, who?
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1. do you have dementia?
2. My dad had dementia, but he was never as bad as Joe Biden, and he never forgot how to get mad. When he’d yell, I’d be glad, for that part was still with him. He even forgot that he drank beer.
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