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A review by annereading
Even If You Beat Me by Sally Rooney, Sally Rooney
4.0
"Must so many male speakers really use rape as a metaphor for something else?"
"The most ambitious debaters go out of their way to absorb information about sexual violence, racial profiling, police brutality: issues many of them will never experience firsthand. I did the same thing. Did it make me more empathetic and self-aware? Or did it just continue to affirm the idea that if I were smart and competitive enough, I could speak for anyone I wanted?"
"I thought about things only as hard and as thoroughly as my grades required. Maybe I stopped debating to see if I could still think of things to say when there weren’t any prizes."
Yeah, I’m boring, I know. I’ll be coming back to that, it was so damn good. Read this essay, it’s worth it and an amazing time investment.
"The most ambitious debaters go out of their way to absorb information about sexual violence, racial profiling, police brutality: issues many of them will never experience firsthand. I did the same thing. Did it make me more empathetic and self-aware? Or did it just continue to affirm the idea that if I were smart and competitive enough, I could speak for anyone I wanted?"
"I thought about things only as hard and as thoroughly as my grades required. Maybe I stopped debating to see if I could still think of things to say when there weren’t any prizes."
Yeah, I’m boring, I know. I’ll be coming back to that, it was so damn good. Read this essay, it’s worth it and an amazing time investment.