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DID NOT FINISH: 25%
This is a book exclusively written for a) heterosexual b) neurotypical c) women who are d) experiencing sexual shame and e) do not have any significant personal trauma around sex.
… I struggle to refrain from adding “not that there’s anything WRONG with that!”
So, with that out of the way, here are my complaints even if we assume that premise, which is itself kinda disappointing.
1. The tone is insufferably infantilizing; I’m not convinced Emily Nagoski actually respects women’s ability to read without being condescendingly praised for “sticking with it.”
2. It is endlessly repetitive.
3. It unquestioningly reinforces gender essentialism, even when it doesn’t seem there’s any cause to do so.
4. It repeatedly oversimplifies information enough to render it functionally useless.
I made the mistake of thinking that even if this book is directed towards women, it must really mostly be about non-normative, patriarchal conceptions of sexuality and therefore useful to a broad audience. I don’t think that’s the case at all, and in fact as I said I think this book does women themselves multiple serious disservices. It’s deeply boring.
… I struggle to refrain from adding “not that there’s anything WRONG with that!”
So, with that out of the way, here are my complaints even if we assume that premise, which is itself kinda disappointing.
1. The tone is insufferably infantilizing; I’m not convinced Emily Nagoski actually respects women’s ability to read without being condescendingly praised for “sticking with it.”
2. It is endlessly repetitive.
3. It unquestioningly reinforces gender essentialism, even when it doesn’t seem there’s any cause to do so.
4. It repeatedly oversimplifies information enough to render it functionally useless.
I made the mistake of thinking that even if this book is directed towards women, it must really mostly be about non-normative, patriarchal conceptions of sexuality and therefore useful to a broad audience. I don’t think that’s the case at all, and in fact as I said I think this book does women themselves multiple serious disservices. It’s deeply boring.