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A review by torts
Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation by Leora Tanenbaum
2.0
Incredibly dated narratives of "sluts," centered around the author's own experience as a "slut" but too personally invested to have the proper distance for insightful representation of these narratives. Overall a simplistic, self-indulgent, repetitive, and disappointing read. Full of misplaced (stereotypical "feminazi") reactionary feminist rhetoric.
It would be a suckysuckybook, but Tanenbaum is self-aware enough that the book seems aware of some of its anecdotal/reactionary flaws (if not how utterly crippling they are to the fundamental message...). Also, I appreciated the Mean-Girls-applicable discussion of girl-on-girl crime (not called that by Tanenbaum, but still acknowledged in Tanenbaum's repetitive, not-quite-getting-to-the-real-point way...).
It would be a suckysuckybook, but Tanenbaum is self-aware enough that the book seems aware of some of its anecdotal/reactionary flaws (if not how utterly crippling they are to the fundamental message...). Also, I appreciated the Mean-Girls-applicable discussion of girl-on-girl crime (not called that by Tanenbaum, but still acknowledged in Tanenbaum's repetitive, not-quite-getting-to-the-real-point way...).