User Profile

Did not finish this book, got perhaps 25% in. Absolutely disliked it. I just don't have the stomach for 2d wave feminism. -at all-. Main gripes:

• I have a huge issue with this white author to consistently want to use Black women as the vessels to make her point or something. I have since had a quick look at academic analyses that mention the book and am not the only person who sees this as problematic.
• Didn't like the style at all, too many descriptive terms with too little point, while also seemingly trying to be as brutal as possible with it. Only two other books have aggravated me this much style wise and those are de Sade's "Justine" and Salinger's "The catcher in the Rye". I think this books is in the same vein linguistically and I just don't like it

So far I -really- dislike it. We'll see how it goes.

It's a good book though very emotional, I cried much more than I expected reading it. Can't really say much more about it without spoilers.

Good reminder of the tactics of women social media influencers in the alt-, extreme right, and identarian scenes in the late 10's. I'd definitely recommend it to people who would like to know more about this particular topic. It's extremely well referenced but it doesn't lose it's readability.

The author responsibly debunks a lot of the points of the people discussed and also shows where they are being inconsistent but of course if you are familiar with these people sometimes it makes reading slightly tedious event though I think it's important to do considering the topic and if the audience is perhaps someone new to this topic.

It was a little heavy on the personal anecdotes for me, I am very much an academic reader when it comes to this sort of thing. Having said that, a lot of my friends are the absolute opposite to me when it comes to digesting this type of topic and I think they would enjoy the writing style of the book a lot.

It does read easily and I think it is actually nice to highlight language use and the role it plays in our lives. I can recommend it for that.

Just really curious about this book on language since language plays such a big role in our day to day.