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Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves | Sophie Gilbert

On the aughts.

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Floresj

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves | Sophie Gilbert

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This historical book covering the late 1990s-now was both nostalgic and helped connect dots for me in regards to the Tradwife/ anti-feminism vibe that I see resurfacing. The tentacles of those ideas were placed in so many pop and cultural touch points that it was interesting seeing the connections come together.

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readingjedi

Hard Work: Life in Low-pay Britain | Polly Toynbee

Yes! I have finally made it to 300 reviews on NetGalley and, seen as you don't get a badge for 300 and it might be a looooong old while before I get to 500, I will have to blow my own trumpet 🎺🎺🎺

Please disregard the fact that my feedback ratio is a disgrace ... disgraceful 😳

vlwelser 80% is fine 3mo

EKonrad You don‘t even want to know my Feedback Ratio then. 🫣 3mo

readingjedi @EKonrad It's the recommended level...unfortunately my level is the much lower figure 🫣 3mo

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everlocalwest

I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual | Luvvie Ajayi

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Sadly dnf'ing this one that I bought years ago and apparently waited too long to read. Maybe I gave up before the subjects got deep but what I did read was just the slight petty kind of judgments told with flair and wit sure, but I expected more. I follow Luvvie across social media and she's a great writer and thinker - this one just didn't do it for me.

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Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves | Sophie Gilbert

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I finished this one up on today‘s #audiowalk. It explores the pop culture effort over the past 30‘years or so to undermine women and girls, encouraging self-hatred and internalized misogyny. I found myself nodding along to a LOT of it.

Leftcoastzen Looks interesting!👏🐶 4mo

squirrelbrain Stacking! 4mo

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Chelsea.Poole

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves | Sophie Gilbert

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Gilbert dissects the biggest of events/content of pop culture, as it pertains to women, during my coming of age. The treatment of Britney Spears, the raunchy films, the sleazy magazine articles and paparazzi all sent us a message that girls and women were subjects to judge and criticize. Purity rings and porn are covered. The creepy way the 2000s made mean girls to pit against each other was all for the benefit of men. Great audio!

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Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves | Sophie Gilbert

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Millennial ladies, there‘s a lot to unpack here. Atlantic journalist Sophie Gilbert thoroughly explores early-aught pop culture influence, and how we were conditioned to treat ourselves and one another. Fascinating and a bit devastating. A must-read!

TheBookHippie Not a millennial- however I‘ve been saying this for years… 6mo

britt_brooke @TheBookHippie It truly has affected generations. 6mo

TheBookHippie @britt_brooke if women were United we‘d rule the world and they know it, thus anything to makes us enemies. 6mo

britt_brooke @TheBookHippie You are 100% correct, my friend. 6mo

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PaperbackReader

Brain Droppings | George Carlin

“Those who dance are considered insane by those who can‘t hear the music.”

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Robotswithpersonality

The Invoice: A Novel | Jonas Karlsson

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Nope. When I go into a book knowing there's a semi-absurd premise, something where you're going to work extra hard to suspend disbelief and not think too hard about the details, I'm looking for the result to be charming or meaningful. I feel like this book didn't manage either.
Started out thinking it could have been a novella, now convinced that amount of plot and original rumination minus the redundancies would have fit in a short story. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? And even at 200 pages, I'm not sure you have a completed text. Case in point: The consequence being built to was just removed at the last minute without a clear picture of what it actually would have been!
I think it's among the scientific literature nowadays that people's natural happiness level varies person to person, something to do with genetics and brain chemistry, beyond what outside factors could modify it, and this story felt like a 7mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/?cul-de-sac, a dead end just proving that point. Where we find this one person who's outlook/personality makes them more content with their life.
The text just barely grazes against the whole, 'many types of privilege, reasons why he's actually very lucky even if one might not rate his life spectacular' which at this point feels so well covered in attempting to gain a more intersectional understanding in non-fiction of how various minorities 7mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? are attempting to navigate the limiting systems in place, that it just made me tired to read the surface-level acknowledgment here.
And really most of this book, wherein one might assume the author wants us to recognize the many sources of contentment and simple joys in our lives, is chock-full of anxiety-generators: a large unpaid expense coming out of the blue, the idea that 'the best things in life are free' is no longer a reality, and you 7mo

Robotswithpersonality 5/? might not get to enjoy them anymore, and then there's this guy who once he gets a customer service contact's direct number feels entitled to call her at all hours of the day and night!
Maybe there's an unconvincing romantic thread that's supposed to be blossoming in those phone conversations but for most of it he's being a whiny, entitled ass.
7mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 [Sidebar: If you want an all night phone conversation that actually rests comfortably within a burgeoning relationship, watch Elizabethtown.]
I just - if the author was sincere then I'm sorry I didn't receive whatever he was trying to get across. If this was actually a cynical cash grab in the YOLO/self-help adjacent/contemporary feel-good genre than I'm not surprised and also very comfortable with the fact that I basically just roasted it. 🔥 (edited) 7mo

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