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3.36 AVERAGE
3.36 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Great use of research balanced with story telling
I enjoyed it in general. But (although I've found the reasons she mentioned for which some women rejected good partners unreasonable) I do not agree on the main point of the book that women are "demanding/picky" and that's why they remain single!
If men are "not demanding" because they look for low maintenance wives who can just keep their homes warm, then women should be "demanding". Men do not need to consider matters like financial stability for instance when they look for potential wives, women need. Men do not need to pay much attention to qualities like being responsible, women need.
It's a matter of needs rather than wants; women just have different and more needs (most of them are triggered by the fact that we do live in a male-dominated world)!
If men are "not demanding" because they look for low maintenance wives who can just keep their homes warm, then women should be "demanding". Men do not need to consider matters like financial stability for instance when they look for potential wives, women need. Men do not need to pay much attention to qualities like being responsible, women need.
It's a matter of needs rather than wants; women just have different and more needs (most of them are triggered by the fact that we do live in a male-dominated world)!
I haven’t thought as much about any single book I’ve read this year but overall— this book is the biggest proof of the tragedy of heterosexuality I’ve ever read in my life.
As in, I finished it and immediately started reading the tragedy of heterosexuality. Which seems like, a necessary counterpoint to this depressed, subservient book
I am VERY GLAD I read it (speaking as a 22 year old ) and I truly will try to get all my peers to read it, but not as guidance. It’s genuinely far more useful as a meditation on the obsession of society with a) marriage and b) mediocre men.
More thoughts to come but they’re gonna have to be like a doctoral thesis because this book is DOUR and PASSIVE
As in, I finished it and immediately started reading the tragedy of heterosexuality. Which seems like, a necessary counterpoint to this depressed, subservient book
I am VERY GLAD I read it (speaking as a 22 year old ) and I truly will try to get all my peers to read it, but not as guidance. It’s genuinely far more useful as a meditation on the obsession of society with a) marriage and b) mediocre men.
More thoughts to come but they’re gonna have to be like a doctoral thesis because this book is DOUR and PASSIVE
This popped up on Libby and I gave it a go since I really like the author's work on some podcasts I've listened to. While there were sentiments of this book I really liked, there was a lot I didn't. It was very depressing and made me even more grateful for my relationship...at several points I paused my reading to hug Drew a little closer
Read this after ‘Maybe You Should Talk To Someone’ which I LOVED and was quite disappointed
reflective
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Interesting, too long, but made the point without, I thought, being misogynist.