Tabitha’s Reviews > Ayesha at Last > Status Update

"Among us atheists, it's still the man's job to drop to his knees."-talking about proposal. Um, no. No it's not? Does the author of this book know any atheists? Also this atheist character is blatantly talking over Ayesha's perception of fundamentalist men, which is super gross.

The casual discrimination and marginalization Ayesha and Khalid face is much better written than Khalid's workplace discrimination. Evil Feminist Lady does attack Khalid's appearance and raises concerns that he might be a t*rrorist, which is true to life, but this is still portrayed as being rooted in her feminism, which really bothers me. Most feminists I've met are not Islamaphobes, myself included.

Already I'm having a problem with this book. The cartoonishly evil villain, Khalid's boss, is basically a "crazy feminist" stereotype. She is offended when Khalid refuses to shake hands with her due to her gender, then goes on a long rant about how men hate women in power in the workplace. Which is true. Then she asks her subordinate to investigate him. There's an extreme lack of nuance here.