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Boring!! But then, I'm not the target audience, it's really more for people who don't already call themselves feminists. That this book was such a sensation makes me sad.
You might think that Adichie is just being smart about her audience here, but her recent transphobic comments show that no, her understanding of gender really is that shallow.
I could ding this book for a lot of individual things (the brief positive reference to the Nordic model, the pervasive heteronormativity [I think she says ...more
You might think that Adichie is just being smart about her audience here, but her recent transphobic comments show that no, her understanding of gender really is that shallow.
I could ding this book for a lot of individual things (the brief positive reference to the Nordic model, the pervasive heteronormativity [I think she says ...more
I re-read this book about once a year, but somehow I never listed it here. Adichie has an important message about gender bias and how it mars the lives of all genders. What she says applies really to bias in any form, and maybe some day the message will take hold that "we've always done it that way" just isn't good enough.
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Roda
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