Um, yeah, hyperbole, that's it. Sure was! (heh. Yeah, it was. The book annoys me, but so do teenyboppers, and I wouldn't ban them either.)

I read MoA at just about the only moment when it would have resonated for me- my brief preteen foray into neo-paganism (which was fun, but just wasn't for me in the end). So the whole goddess worship/woman power thing, stuck in Renn Faire dress, was really fun. But like I said, I was thirteen. I can't get into that mindset anymore, and the flaws in the writing and the research (not to mention the whole Mystical Shamanism/womyn power thing that got me in the first place) wrecks any fun that was left. And the medieval historian in me can't take it- it's not my period, it's not my field, but even so, the mistakes and modern mentalities are glaring. And annoying.