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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
It's difficult to review a book of essays written by multiple authors. Some of the essays were less engaging than others, but there were a handful that stood out to me as excellent, informative, and engaging. There are six specific essays in this book that I would recommend wholeheartedly and without reservation:
X Cuntry, Randa Jarrar
Refusing to Numb the Pain, Sarah Hepola
All American, Nicole Chung
As Long as It's Healthy, Sarah Michael Hollenbeck
The Pathology of Donald Trump, Sady Doyle
Dispatches from a Texas Militarized Zone, Melissa Arjona
X Cuntry, Randa Jarrar
Refusing to Numb the Pain, Sarah Hepola
All American, Nicole Chung
As Long as It's Healthy, Sarah Michael Hollenbeck
The Pathology of Donald Trump, Sady Doyle
Dispatches from a Texas Militarized Zone, Melissa Arjona
I appreciate the diverse voices of the women whose essays are included in this collection, especially those of women previously/simultaneously involved in the Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ movements who feel marginalized by white cis feminism. I had not realized this divide existed.
well... it was a bit depressing to live through the election all over again, to remember the hope and excitement only to put the book down and step back into reality. made me proud to call myself a fellow nasty woman, but going back to the beginning of the election season still bewilders me... how did this pos become president? apparently it's Hillary's bday today, as John Lewis put it, "happy birthday Madame President"
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
dark
Let's see, one compiler from the very beginning points a very negative finger at white working class women and calls us privileged, ignoring the numerous problems facing us such as chronic poverty, sometimes chronic homelessness or temporary, rampant domestic violence, abuse of her children by their partners, no access to certain services or decent nutrition due to long working hours of often having to work two or more retail jobs she claims are mostly populated by people of color, despite that they are mostly older white women if your area is not that diverse, etc. Sounds like the compiler is speaking from privilege instead, one from easy access to higher education and to a big city, never having to experience firsthand the lifelong problems of growing up in a more rural area that has negative expectations for poor white women.
And both compilers point fingers at all women who looked objectively at the facts and recognized that Clinton is not an upstanding human being. If you want her to represent all potential woman presidents you aren't using critical thinking. And just because she ran against one of the worst human beings doesn't make her a great person by default. That is illogical. And getting pissed because not all women voted for her just because she has the same genitalia as they do? And these are feminists who probably cry sexism when they are told women are emotional, irrational, illogical, etc. Well, verbally abusing women who used their brains and decided Clinton sucked too and can back that up with facts, and stating those facts and then telling women that you are going to ignore them and then say women who didn't vote for Clinton are hateful meanyheads is all those things; emotional, irrational, illogical. We don't need feminism like this. This is why women say they aren't feminists and it's actually why some rural women who like a more traditional lifestyle went and joined alt-right, because minorities have started using poor white women as target practice and silencing us through shaming and manipulative guilt tactics using our lack of skin color and non-existent supposed privilege.
And both compilers point fingers at all women who looked objectively at the facts and recognized that Clinton is not an upstanding human being. If you want her to represent all potential woman presidents you aren't using critical thinking. And just because she ran against one of the worst human beings doesn't make her a great person by default. That is illogical. And getting pissed because not all women voted for her just because she has the same genitalia as they do? And these are feminists who probably cry sexism when they are told women are emotional, irrational, illogical, etc. Well, verbally abusing women who used their brains and decided Clinton sucked too and can back that up with facts, and stating those facts and then telling women that you are going to ignore them and then say women who didn't vote for Clinton are hateful meanyheads is all those things; emotional, irrational, illogical. We don't need feminism like this. This is why women say they aren't feminists and it's actually why some rural women who like a more traditional lifestyle went and joined alt-right, because minorities have started using poor white women as target practice and silencing us through shaming and manipulative guilt tactics using our lack of skin color and non-existent supposed privilege.
The theme of this was pretty clear but it started to feel a little repetitive - white feminism is not inclusive (surprise) and majority of white women voted for trump. I appreciated having essays with different voices but some I found myself skimming more than reading. It’s also not a topic that just pulls me in, it (politics and people) just makes me mad.
inspiring
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