Or it’s possible that Caitlin Moran meant the title literally, as in “how to be *a* woman (not *all* women)”.

I know it’s a little self-defeating to be using sex as the message. Lots of men have a problem with being seen as feminists, when there’s so much scope for them to be received positively, and I was half playing it for laughs. It works better in Moran’s book, because she balances it with a strong focus on how sexualising all relations (mostly for advertising reasons) is really not helping any of us.

I don’t get it. It’s not okay to lie about being a feminist to get into girl’s pants…but it is okay to be a ‘real’ feminist, even if you’re still doing it because ‘it’s hot’ to the ladies? Do men have to be encouraged to do anything by implying they might get more pussy? I don’t think so.

Yeah, I’m halfway through it and have found it hugely entertaining, but initially when it came out I was reluctant to read it because of the title! Also the Marian Keyes style posters, which say things like “tiny pants and Lady Gaga? This book has being a woman TAPED” – as someone who’s never given a crap about either enough to need a How To at any rate, it looked from the marketing like a real life Bridget Jones memoir – which it isn’t. I think it could’ve been better marketed in some ways. Can’t quite decide at the mo. (Maybe when I’ve finished the book I’ll be clearer…)

This book may be titled “how to be a woman”, but it’s written by a single woman in the form of a memoir. A more appropriate title would have been “how to be caitlin moran”. There will be plenty of women on this planet who do not feel their lived experiencies can be accurately portrayed by Moran’s life.

Language is important. Moran may be, on the one hand, refusing to engage with politics. But on the other, she’s titling her book “how to be a woman”. That’s a political statement in itself.