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3.28 AVERAGE
3.28 AVERAGE
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
I can't decide if I liked this book most when at its most hilarious ("Not every single one of my thoughts/tweets/breaths/farts is like, Mediated Through My Gender Identity) or its most poignant ("Analyzing why these men don't love you is beneath you"). Roberson's writing was so funny and unabashedly honest. This will definitely be a book that I recommend to all my clever, badass feminist friends.
informative
you can hear roberson from our thirdfloor landing when i'm listening to how to date men when you hate men on audiobook in the secondfloor kitchen which is this book's own bizarre talent. i'm not sure this is a self help guide, or a parody of a self help guide -- i vote for circuitous memoir. occasionally, i thought O WOW YES THIS ISN'T IT COOL IT ISN'T JUST IN MY THOUGHTS, but mostly i thought ... when do the repetitive loop de loops end and also why can't i stop listening after initially not wanting to listen to anymore at all??
I laughed out loud at many of Roberson’s quips. This book is in some ways a light-hearted wide brush feminism intro, and parts were very fun to read. Some of the essays were boring, or confusing, or out of place, which made the book hard to finish - it dragged in a few places. Overall, I enjoyed it and will read future offerings.
I finished this book, and found it entertaining at times. However, I don't agree with large swaths of Roberson's perspective on life and relationships, so reading this book was more educational (as to what some people/she believes) rather than validating.
I wanted to love this book so much, and there were some parts I really did love! Parts that made me want to clap and cackle and shout "RIGHT???" But the parts between those parts were disjointed and felt like kind of a slog to get through.
quitting while i'm ahead because i can't take anymore.
this concept of this could have been really good if it was executed properly. it is set up to be a look at how to navigate dating men within a patriarchal society where men have all the power. WHICH IS INTERESTING RIGHT. however, it just ended up being random dating anecdotes of the author that don't connect to any interesting point. at the point where i was at (around the 80-page mark) it moved into almost self-helpy BuzzFeed guides on how to navigate modern dating which was what ultimately lost all my interest because:
a. i don't necessarily think the advice was that good
b. tbh i don't need or care about dating advice because there was no one in my vicinity that i want to date
i don't mean to invalidate the author but the overall tone was quite 'woe is me' without providing reasons for the reader to feel bad or sympathise. maybe i will feel more sympathetic when i'm older and the experiences are closer to my heart but, from a general sense, it was a bit tiring.
i wish the title was addressed more since i really did enjoy the small sections where she actually wrote about different issues when it comes to this heteronormative society.
things i wished she brought up but should have dived deeper into:
- what people mean when they say they 'hate all men'
- boybands and female sexuality
- the economic necessity of getting married
- dating apps and capitalism
..yeah out of the 80 pages i read these were the only interesting things i picked up on the rest was dating self-help like: 'way to make it clear it's a date' or 'good analog places to meet men'
congrats first dnf of the year
this concept of this could have been really good if it was executed properly. it is set up to be a look at how to navigate dating men within a patriarchal society where men have all the power. WHICH IS INTERESTING RIGHT. however, it just ended up being random dating anecdotes of the author that don't connect to any interesting point. at the point where i was at (around the 80-page mark) it moved into almost self-helpy BuzzFeed guides on how to navigate modern dating which was what ultimately lost all my interest because:
a. i don't necessarily think the advice was that good
b. tbh i don't need or care about dating advice because there was no one in my vicinity that i want to date
i don't mean to invalidate the author but the overall tone was quite 'woe is me' without providing reasons for the reader to feel bad or sympathise. maybe i will feel more sympathetic when i'm older and the experiences are closer to my heart but, from a general sense, it was a bit tiring.
i wish the title was addressed more since i really did enjoy the small sections where she actually wrote about different issues when it comes to this heteronormative society.
things i wished she brought up but should have dived deeper into:
- what people mean when they say they 'hate all men'
- boybands and female sexuality
- the economic necessity of getting married
- dating apps and capitalism
..yeah out of the 80 pages i read these were the only interesting things i picked up on the rest was dating self-help like: 'way to make it clear it's a date' or 'good analog places to meet men'
congrats first dnf of the year