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If I had a daughter, I would buy her this when she turned thirteen. Moran is irreverent and so spot on - what a refreshing voice - Caitlin Moran is my new girl crush!
This was just fun. I love my feminism with some light hardheartedness and some bawdy humor.
This book is a recounting of her life, but with a markedly feminist overlay now that she can has the distance to see it all truly. Some of the visits to her childhood were so honest and raw that you just wanted to hug her young self and tell her that it would all work out. Her discussions of her confusion when she went out into the world as a young girl in the office and dealing with sexism for the first ...more
This book is a recounting of her life, but with a markedly feminist overlay now that she can has the distance to see it all truly. Some of the visits to her childhood were so honest and raw that you just wanted to hug her young self and tell her that it would all work out. Her discussions of her confusion when she went out into the world as a young girl in the office and dealing with sexism for the first ...more
Sep 21, 2014
Melissa
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it was amazing
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Honest. Brutal. And so funny I damn near peed myself (there's an anecdote about spiders and hoo-has that comes after a really rousing paragraph about being a feminist and I lost it for about 5 minutes).
Read it ahead of reading How to Build a Girl this next week. ...more
Read it ahead of reading How to Build a Girl this next week. ...more
Oh, fuck yes. Everything about this book is yes.
Everything I heard about How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran indicated that I would enjoy the book: funny, strong feminist perspective, and a quick read. The book was picked for a book club that is no longer in existence, but I still wanted to finish the selection. When I read the prologue, I was immediately struck by the line "zero tolerance on all patriarchal bullshit." As I dove into the first chapters, I started to struggle. The references to pornography started to bore me. The framework felt
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I really really wanted to love this. I wanted to laugh out loud, learn things, and be moved. While parts were really interesting, I was neither moved nor humored. This is supposed to be a funny book about feminism, told in part through examples from the author's life. I really liked the biographical parts of this, but was left cold by her theories of feminism. I even agree with her about most of her dogma, but was also insanely grated by some of her assertions. I was unfamiliar with Moran before
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Ugh. This book was touted as the British version of Tina Fey's Bossypants.
It was not.
I had an amazingly hard time identifying with Caitlin Moran. I did not, in particular, think that she was/is funny. While she seemed like a smart lady, we would not get along if left to our own devices. The chapter on abortion was incredibly hard to read and I found my physically cringing b/c of it being overly descriptive. Ha ha real funny...no thank you.
Maybe I should read her next book. I didn't like Cheryl ...more
It was not.
I had an amazingly hard time identifying with Caitlin Moran. I did not, in particular, think that she was/is funny. While she seemed like a smart lady, we would not get along if left to our own devices. The chapter on abortion was incredibly hard to read and I found my physically cringing b/c of it being overly descriptive. Ha ha real funny...no thank you.
Maybe I should read her next book. I didn't like Cheryl ...more
A very good read. I enjoyed her views on feminism. They are similar to mine in that feminism is about being able to have choices, not about HAVING to do something. There were some laugh out loud parts that had me in stitches.
I enjoyed this book. Although I didn’t align with all of her views, I found her tone refreshing. Honest.
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