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A review by grannywitch
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry
3.0
The author and I are the same age, our experiences are similar, and we know all the same pop culture references (though she didn't mention Batman Returns and Girls Next Door which were my "enamored with the leads" repeat watches).
This was fun to read in the same bittersweet way that reminiscing about teen years that weren't actually that fun is. The author was likeable and it felt like catching up with someone you ran with in high school that had all the same experiences as you. If you're a slightly cringe millennial. I think that's the problem with this collection of essays--the experiences are not universal so the audience is super narrow. Millennials were coming of age smack in the middle of a weird transitional phase where young people suddenly, blessedly, were becoming socially and politically aware. This manifests in the way the author both overcorrects in some places (policing the way queer artists express themselves) and remains a bit problematic (clinging onto the accursed L Word as a pillar of queer womanhood by her fingernails).
This was fun to read in the same bittersweet way that reminiscing about teen years that weren't actually that fun is. The author was likeable and it felt like catching up with someone you ran with in high school that had all the same experiences as you. If you're a slightly cringe millennial. I think that's the problem with this collection of essays--the experiences are not universal so the audience is super narrow. Millennials were coming of age smack in the middle of a weird transitional phase where young people suddenly, blessedly, were becoming socially and politically aware. This manifests in the way the author both overcorrects in some places (policing the way queer artists express themselves) and remains a bit problematic (clinging onto the accursed L Word as a pillar of queer womanhood by her fingernails).