Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

by Anne Helen Petersen

Of course complexity is better than simplicity; of course you should qualify your enjoyment of anything that is not on the highest rung as a “guilty pleasure”—as if you were momentarily afflicted with bad taste and, as such, risk outing yourself as not just less intelligent, but less deserving of your own class.