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A review by ms_smith
What Would Boudicca Do?: Everyday Problems Solved by History's Most Remarkable Women by Elizabeth Foley
1.0
I've never been this glad to finish a book... This was something else, and not in a good way; this book is an extremist feminazi 'piece of literature' and I really wouldn't recommend it to anybody but especially not for young girls/women who are learning how to navigate in life's troubled waters. Most of these women we really shouldn't consider as role models, because they are clearly not. The double standard really, REALLY bothers me regardless of gender. E.g. According to the book, Mae West said 'A man should take as good care of his body as a woman does.' about bodybuilders she performed with. This slip of the tongue says a lot about her, that a man whose body is not worked out is not good. It's really ironic since she clearly wasn't a skinny-malinky herself, but it bothered her if somebody else was plumpy, and she felt she had the right to judge them but if she was the talk of the town she threw a tantrum. So she wasn't okay with her body then. This is clear text book double standard in my understanding.
Then there's Phoolan Devi and Cleopatra who were terrorists, sad but true. Both are presented with this 'bad b*tch' image who we should look up to, because of their strenghts. Like seriously?! They killed people (one of them even family members) and this is, not in any circumstances, okay to do!
Just to name a few of these 'incredible' women of the book (because there's more I could be talking about, but then I should just write a book about it and even that would be better than this piece of sh**). The book is just full of this double standard crap that just boils my p*ss to the max. Not to mention that the 'advices' weren't even offering any kind of guidance, if they had anything to do with the women at all they were listed next to. And then there's the language...The authors thought it would be a good idea to call these women nicknames throught the book, I think it supposed to be hip and cool, but it really was just cringe. Don't read this 'masterpiece' people, this book is a shame to us women.
#dontcultivatemoresnowflakes
Then there's Phoolan Devi and Cleopatra who were terrorists, sad but true. Both are presented with this 'bad b*tch' image who we should look up to, because of their strenghts. Like seriously?! They killed people (one of them even family members) and this is, not in any circumstances, okay to do!
Just to name a few of these 'incredible' women of the book (because there's more I could be talking about, but then I should just write a book about it and even that would be better than this piece of sh**). The book is just full of this double standard crap that just boils my p*ss to the max. Not to mention that the 'advices' weren't even offering any kind of guidance, if they had anything to do with the women at all they were listed next to. And then there's the language...The authors thought it would be a good idea to call these women nicknames throught the book, I think it supposed to be hip and cool, but it really was just cringe. Don't read this 'masterpiece' people, this book is a shame to us women.
#dontcultivatemoresnowflakes