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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
For me, there was nothing new or groundbreaking in this book. I've heard these arguments before, I believe these things already. So it was good, but just a redundant read for me.
Kameron Hurley deserves all the awards, on top of the ones she already has. This is a must read for any woman in genre, in fact it should be a must read for anyone of any gender in anything. Hurley’s words have filled me with optimism and rage and her voice is going to be ringing in my ears for a long time spurring me on, I love her work so much
I could not put this down. I felt like I was listening to my much more eloquent twin and had an "I KNOW, RIGHT?" moment every few minutes but also gained some interesting perspective on issues I haven't thought about. I must immediately run out and buy all of Hurley's books and have signed on as a Patreon supporter because I. Need. More.
Kameron is a very readable writer, and she certainly gives you a lot to think about with the short essays on feminism, sci-fi-dom, geekdom, writing, her own personal journey. If there's a criticism it would be that yes, sometimes there'll be a core idea and she iterates, stretches and re-iterates that.
Some solid, quick-read essays; reads predominantly like an autobiography, which I didn't necessarily mind but def didn't expect.
Slay, queen.
There truly wasn't a bad essay in this entire collection.
There truly wasn't a bad essay in this entire collection.
Very, very good. Made me think of all the tiny ways in everyday life that the narrative is skewed and needs to be pushed and changed and moved forward. And, how my own thinking excuses things and how that's BS and I need to examine and question more. For the last month I've been thinking on narratives in fiction that I've liked and that I've hated and really looking at my thinking about what parts made me uncomfortable. Was it me or was it the story or was it????
I will be thinking and questioning things much more closely and looking for more reading experiences that keep me thinking and questioning.
I will be thinking and questioning things much more closely and looking for more reading experiences that keep me thinking and questioning.
Picked this up from listening to her being interviewed in the podcast Geeks Guide to the Galaxy. This was so much stronger than what I was expecting- and I’m simply blown away. She knows how to put words to the things most of us can only think about. I’ll be reading God’s War soon as well- can’t wait.
First, I think this is a good and important work that breaks down a lot of issues in a smart, thoughtful, and engaging manner. This is not Tumblr activism.
My one criticism is the chapter she where she draws a parallel to the larger world with how she yelled at a three-year-old not to hit his mother. Her point is sometimes you have to yell and people don't like it but oh well. All I could think of was that the moment you are yelling at a three-year old (which I do on a daily basis, since I have a three-year-old) you've lost. Yelling doesn't work. Yelling is a bad strategy. No one reacts well to being yelled at. Yelling compounds the problem, it doesn't resolve it. Yelling makes it about the fact that you yelled, and not about whatever dangerous thing the three-year-old was doing. If you can stay calm and reach the three-year-old at their level, you more often than not have a better outcome. But that is hard, because you are angry and you want to yell, and besides they are being a jerk so why should YOU have to be nice?
I see this on the internet all the time, and its the reason I've disengaged online. So much of it is just yelling back and forth and it's not helpful and no one is learning from it.
Being wronged doesn't make you right.
My one criticism is the chapter she where she draws a parallel to the larger world with how she yelled at a three-year-old not to hit his mother. Her point is sometimes you have to yell and people don't like it but oh well. All I could think of was that the moment you are yelling at a three-year old (which I do on a daily basis, since I have a three-year-old) you've lost. Yelling doesn't work. Yelling is a bad strategy. No one reacts well to being yelled at. Yelling compounds the problem, it doesn't resolve it. Yelling makes it about the fact that you yelled, and not about whatever dangerous thing the three-year-old was doing. If you can stay calm and reach the three-year-old at their level, you more often than not have a better outcome. But that is hard, because you are angry and you want to yell, and besides they are being a jerk so why should YOU have to be nice?
I see this on the internet all the time, and its the reason I've disengaged online. So much of it is just yelling back and forth and it's not helpful and no one is learning from it.
Being wronged doesn't make you right.
I loved this book, and even though I wish I had read it when it came out, I also feel like reading it right now, with all the things going on in the news, was really cathartic.