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

fast-paced

2.0

I really wanted to enjoy this essay, but I just didn't. While I agree with many of the things she said, Adichie's insistence on the binary sat very poorly at me. Initially, I thought it may be because it is a very old essay (I was thinking 90s), but no - We Should All Be Feminists was published in 2014 and based on a 2013 Ted Talk. This conversation is less than a decade old, and I can't excuse it. Not only is this piece exclusionary, it insist on biological markers more than once. Altogether, it left a sour taste in my mouth.

I concur with the sentiment that we need to stop being regimented in the way we train our children and the values we impose as a society. But I think the conversation needs to be wider, and we need to be inclusive.
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