I kind of amazed how many reviewers were completely aware of the controversy surrounding this author.

For those unaware- let me summarize. She is the daughter of a famous Second Wave feminist, and has spent her career bashing feminism for being "sexually conservative". She made her name in the 90s by writing a book in response to the Take Back the Night movement by basically laying out that college feminists were exaggerating rape statistics because they are anti-sex. She is known less for her writing then for being a dick, and most of us are just hate-reading.

And God knows, this book does not disappoint. Katie has trouble being friends with women; she slept with one of her few friend's bfs, and the girl had the square audacity to get pissed (it is spelled out that this girl is un-modishly fat); liberals hate her because they are prudish about her being a single mother, and the primary plight of single mothers is not getting invited to couples only dinner parties on the UES; Philip Roth and Norman Mailer are just joshing with that whole woman-fucking-cucumber business can't you take a joke?; incest is so passé; Austen readers are just the upper-middlebrow version of women following "The Rules"; andonandonandon.

I'll give this book two stars because there was nothing awful about date-rape or HIV. But the incest chapter came close. I had more fun hate-reading Caitlyn Flanagan and Maureen Dowd, who each take punches in this book, which is saying something.