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I was in the midst of reading this when I heard Dax Shepard's interview with Jonathan Haidt on Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast. I wholeheartedly agree with Dax's opinion about the white-male problem which I paraphrase as this: the problem is not actually white males specifically. If you eliminate all the white males, the same problems will occur because some other demographic will do the same things. The problem is with the power structures themselves and not the demographic that has all the p
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Fascinating concept - what would the world be like if women were all of a sudden given a power that made them infinitely more powerful than men? The story is primarily told through four points of view, Allie (a mixed race foster child), Roxy (daughter of a crime boss), Margot (mother and politician), and Tundae (a journalist). Sadly, the most consistently interesting of the characters was the male journalist, Tundae. He was probably the most interesting since his job was to report on the events
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The Power is about what happens when a twist of nature makes women stronger than men. I heard about this book on the Overdue podcast and was intrigued to learn it was one of Pres Obama’s best of 2017 books. It’s a page turner. Hard to read some parts, in the way that dystopian fiction is just too close to reality. I don’t think I’ll be able to stop thinking about it for a very long time.
A. Well-written and interesting. Women suddenly have electrical powers and the power balance of the world shifts to women instead of men. It’s a little heavy-handed at times. And it’s borderline YA at times as well.
Mar 21, 2021
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