True Story Quotes

“We learn about the core features of society by looking at the extremes.”
― Danielle J. Lindemann, True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us

“One thing it tells us is simply that the justice system is a large part of our lives. The US houses one-quarter of all inmates in the world, even though we’re only 5 percent of the global population.28 We incarcerate more people per capita than any other country; currently, nearly 2.3 million people are being held within our criminal justice system.29 This system has also become more a part of our lives in recent years. The number of people in US prisons and jails has increased 500 percent over the last four decades. In fact, today the number of people in prison for drug offenses alone exceeds the total number of people who were locked away for any crime in 1980.”
― Danielle J. Lindemann, True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us

“Myths about meritocracy are central to our national discourse.”
― Danielle J. Lindemann, True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us

“While it may seem obvious that parents are able to pass on their social advantages to their kids, many of us may not understand the full extent of this process. It certainly runs afoul of the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
― Danielle J. Lindemann, True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us

“many reality TV women fail to grab the brass ring of intensive motherhood.”
― Danielle J. Lindemann, True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us