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3.71 AVERAGE
It was just what I needed, and I strongly recommend it for both men and women, whether you perceive your workplace to be sexist or not.
This has helped me grapple with the misogyny and casual sexism in my first workplace, and is going to travel with me wherever I go next because the fight for survival never ends.
I wish I could give it more but once I found the glaring error of saying that Penn Face is about Penn State students (not an Ivy League school and a 2 second google search confirms its UPenn), I had to second guess all of the facts in the book. It had some good points but I quickly became not interested and got the gist for the second half.
I am so conflicted right now. I really don’t want to be, but I am kind of hating this book. Not because the content wasn’t good or legitimate, but because whoever designed the physical layout of the thing decided to sprinkle girly fucking glitter dust all over everything. The whole GD book is smothered in pink, frilly doodles and mindless diagrams that don’t actually make any sense. Empowerment? Please! It used to be empowerment until the girls’ toy aisle threw up all over it and turned it into #GRRRLPW3R!
This is all so disappointing because the content of the book was actually pretty good. Bennett made all kinds of valid points and observations about sexism in the workplace (yes, it still exists), but by packaging her ideas in the literary equivalent of a pink princess dress she pretty much lost me.
FEMINIST AUTHORS: It is not necessary and is, in fact, generally off-putting when you market your work as though it were being sold to a Lisa Frank-loving fifth grader. Let’s just collectively stop this, okay? Thanks.
This is all so disappointing because the content of the book was actually pretty good. Bennett made all kinds of valid points and observations about sexism in the workplace (yes, it still exists), but by packaging her ideas in the literary equivalent of a pink princess dress she pretty much lost me.
FEMINIST AUTHORS: It is not necessary and is, in fact, generally off-putting when you market your work as though it were being sold to a Lisa Frank-loving fifth grader. Let’s just collectively stop this, okay? Thanks.
I think this book is a good start into the topic of feminism. Since I have already read more in-depth and complex books about it, it felt a little too basic for me. Otherwise, as said, good.
Giving this book the rating (3.5 stars) that I would have given it if I had read it when I was 20. Most of what's in the book I already knew or I've learned (sometimes the hard way) by being in the working world for the last 25 years. But Feminist Fight Club provides younger women with a great set of guidelines for dealing with men in the working world and, more importantly, makes the case for developing the kinds of feminist friendships that will keep you from going crazy while you're there.
As someone who is about to enter into her first full-time professional job I was interested in reading this book. There were some helpful tips that I will remember but at the same time there were many that I thought would not be as effective. As well, as someone who has already read a lot of studies about women in the workplace (as I'm assuming a lot of women who found out about this book have) there wasn't all that much new information. I would be interested in rereading it once I have been employed for a period of time.
This is not just a survival manual for the workplace - this is my manual for living life as a bad ass feminist in a world where equal rights are not what they should be. My goodness, this book ROCKS. It is funny, it is real, it is well written, well researched, beautifully illustrated, awesome layout, riddled with good examples and good tactics to combat the sexist bullshit we come across every damn day. I will make sure my own FFC borrows this book from me and reads it. Spread the knowledge! Lean the fuck in! We are all warriors in our own ways and we CAN do it and we WILL do it by building each other up, staying present, and keeping our heads up.
A few years ago I was doing some web content editing for a law firm in downtown Toronto. As I was finishing up the contract, the partner who'd employed me mentioned that if I ever wanted to go into law, he could recommend some good paralegal programs. I didn't say anything, but I left thinking that if I ever wanted to go into law, I'd do it as a lawyer, thank you very much. I doubt he would have made the same comment to a man. (Not to mention the fact that communications is a perfectly respectable vocation, and obviously the lawyers couldn't do it properly for themselves.)
Now, I'm lucky enough to work in an environment in which I don't experience much ingrained sexism on a daily basis. Nonetheless, Feminist Fight Club was truly enlightening and should be mandatory reading for young women entering the working world. It highlights so many behaviours to watch for (your own and others') and tips both subtle and obvious to push back against insidious workplace sexism. There's also tons of advice related specifically to helping women succeed in the workplace, like how to ask for a raise, and info about how women's typical behaviours and speech patterns are often perceived as inferior to their male counterparts'.
Even if you think your workplace is amazing and there's no sexism to fight, Feminist Fight Club will make you so much more aware of your own tendencies and help you figure out what you need to do to be successful -- whether or not there are men around.
Now, I'm lucky enough to work in an environment in which I don't experience much ingrained sexism on a daily basis. Nonetheless, Feminist Fight Club was truly enlightening and should be mandatory reading for young women entering the working world. It highlights so many behaviours to watch for (your own and others') and tips both subtle and obvious to push back against insidious workplace sexism. There's also tons of advice related specifically to helping women succeed in the workplace, like how to ask for a raise, and info about how women's typical behaviours and speech patterns are often perceived as inferior to their male counterparts'.
Even if you think your workplace is amazing and there's no sexism to fight, Feminist Fight Club will make you so much more aware of your own tendencies and help you figure out what you need to do to be successful -- whether or not there are men around.
This book changed how I looked at work, interactions, and my own behavior, habits, and thoughts about what is “appropriate” for me to do and say at work. It came at the time I needed it most.