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supitslois's review against another edition
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
sprouter's review
4.5
- Love this type of academic/layperson hybrid reading
- Liked her ethnographies of those dating coach things and analysis of not just feminist texts but the self help for straights throughout the decades
- Lots of fair criticism of the fact that her analysis still trended to feel binaristic (eg queer v straight)
- I do wonder who exactly is the audience for this to hit the sweet spot
extemporalli's review against another edition
3.25
This hovered uneasily between non-fiction and academic text. I felt it didn’t offer a searching enough account of what heterosexuality even *is*, had a troublingly binaristic approach to straight versus queer, man versus woman (it didn’t have a lot to say about cisness or transness which honestly seems like an oversight given how much gender reveals parties figured into her account of heterosexuality), radical vs. non-radical queers. It also drew a Lot, both materially and sensibility-wise, on like… Facebook groups titled like “are the straights ok” of the 2010s. In general she worked on this during the 2010s (a time when there were vast and sweeping changes wrt attitudes toward gender and sexuality) and you can… kinda tell
unluckycat13's review
IDK I just wasn't feeling this one. Will give it another chance one day. Interesting perspective but a little sketchy sometimes.