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3.28 AVERAGE
3.28 AVERAGE
I started out fully prepared to dislike this book given the title and my general thought that the only proper response to the title is "Don't?". But, it ended up making me laugh out loud several times and isn't really about the title in a direct sense, so IDK.
"I thought I was suffering from not being loved and yet it is because I thought I was loved that I was suffering. I lived in the complication of supposing myself simultaneously loved and abandoned."
"My opinion on all literary schools of thought is now, 'Oh hundreds of years of white men thought about this subject? Let me throw all of that out of the window and do whatever I feel like.'"
"But men like to look down and blink a lot and say in an extremely pained way that, 'You deserve better' because they're trying to act like you're both victims. He is the one breaking up with you which is his choice and what he wants, but by saying it's for your good, he's positioning himself as deserving of your sympathy. He can't even let you have your pain because this is for you and he's being self-sacrificing. It's really fucked up and a little gaslight-y. Alanis Morrisette screamed that it is not cool to give her a cross to bear and then deny it and folks, she ain't wrong."
"I have literally said the phrase, 'I'm pretty sure he didn't know what he wanted, so I'm going to give him another chance.' As in, I, the person who got dumped, am going to give another chance to the person who dumped me. In my mind, I'm giving them a chance to pretend like they never broke up with me but in reality, I'm giving them a chance to break up with me again."
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." - Audre Lorde
"I thought I was suffering from not being loved and yet it is because I thought I was loved that I was suffering. I lived in the complication of supposing myself simultaneously loved and abandoned."
"My opinion on all literary schools of thought is now, 'Oh hundreds of years of white men thought about this subject? Let me throw all of that out of the window and do whatever I feel like.'"
"But men like to look down and blink a lot and say in an extremely pained way that, 'You deserve better' because they're trying to act like you're both victims. He is the one breaking up with you which is his choice and what he wants, but by saying it's for your good, he's positioning himself as deserving of your sympathy. He can't even let you have your pain because this is for you and he's being self-sacrificing. It's really fucked up and a little gaslight-y. Alanis Morrisette screamed that it is not cool to give her a cross to bear and then deny it and folks, she ain't wrong."
"I have literally said the phrase, 'I'm pretty sure he didn't know what he wanted, so I'm going to give him another chance.' As in, I, the person who got dumped, am going to give another chance to the person who dumped me. In my mind, I'm giving them a chance to pretend like they never broke up with me but in reality, I'm giving them a chance to break up with me again."
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." - Audre Lorde
blythe cracked my skull, psychoanalyzed me and said "time to write your new favorite book." this book it's as good if not better than the entire one direction discography. blythe if you're reading this i literally love you, you are my queen.
challenging
funny
informative
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
funny
reflective
fast-paced
funny
informative
reflective
fast-paced
Title of the book does not go with the actual narrative
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This book had me laughing out loud and made my morning commute that much better. However - it’s not for everyone. I happen to fall into the specific demographic the author is in and targeting. It felt like I was reading my own stream of consciousness but better articulated and with more references.
Largely vapid. Saving grace is the ever so brief portion on systemic sexism, but quickly devolved back to nothingness. 1.5/5