Sarah's review
Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me
by Ben Karlin, Nick Hornby, Andy Selsberg
Sarah's review
Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me by Ben Karlin, Nick Hornby, Andy Selsberg
Sarah's review
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This "eh" of a book, weirdly, is a really good example of a particular, baffling sort of thing that pops up culturally from time to time: a thing, usually a "text," that the career feminists (on feministing.com, for instance) get really riled up about and assume that all thinking women must ipso facto deplore the execution, content, and existence of, but whose feminist significance I... just... totally... miss. I'm all ready to get rambunctious with them, as usual (Down with the imposition of repressive Hindu customs regarding widows! Up with 15-year-old girls protesting abstinence only education!), but then I actually pause, with a question mark in a bubble over my head, and feel like I don't understand what the problem is (and therefore inadequate). I often agree that the thing in question is kind of silly, stupid, ill-advised, or pointless, but -- for these things in particular -- I'm missing the vast misogynist consipiracy. I'm not even talking about me perp...more
