A review by culpeppper
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

reflective slow-paced

2.5

Overall, this essay reads as outdated and basic. It fails to dig deep, which is fine, but tends to re-tread itself with similar ideas being explored, mainly boiling down to woman = man but society thinks woman < man. Also, a lot of her understanding of gender is restricted in thinking sex assigned at birth is your gender and her language reflects that, so I do disagree with her on some fronts from that perspective, while also understanding there are differences in the way we've experienced the world. 
Adichie is saying things that would have been radical to hear an African woman say on a stage in 2014, maybe, but it doesn't hold up in 2024 unless you're looking specifically for a Nigerian-American woman's thoughts from around the 2010s. 
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