tinahudak 's review for:

Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President by E. Jean Carroll

5.0

dark emotional funny inspiring sad fast-paced

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Following on the heels of this, I get a notice from my library that the e-book I had on hold is ready for check-out!  Yahoo! What timing.  This is NOT a book I would normally read, but for some unknown reason, which I am sure you can guess, I added my name to the long list: Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President by E. Jean Carroll. Unless you have been travelling on SpaceX when it actually gets off the ground, you know this is NOT a mystery; moreover, you are aware of the content/context of the book. Reality smacked me in the face on page 33 with “The juries don’t care about #MeToo. They don’t care.” I understood this to be true historically with juries, the public, even friends of the victims. Men were to be believed; women were hysterical. Yet, reading Carroll’s account (which has a great deal of wry humor, by the way!), I was slammed up against the same prejudices and cultural stereotypes in 2019 in these United States of America. Yes, in this case, Carroll, like our heroine Lady Petra, was rescued. Carroll had a plethora of brilliant lawyers and a decent jury, and won her civil case based upon sexual assault and defamation. But what about all the women who do not have these resources? At least here, one can say the bad guy got his comeuppance. Or did he, our President of the United States of America?