6/22/2023 0 Comments Rage becomes her book![]() ![]() ![]() I wonder how long we’re going to have books like this for women, books in which we sing only a song of our own oppression and tell ourselves we are special and brave for having suffered for so long. ![]() When a woman is angry in these tracts, she is Elizabeth Warren, not Marine Le Pen. Chemaly would never guess that a majority of white women voted for Donald Trump in 2016. the possibility, even for the length of a sentence fragment, that one thing making some women angry might have been the insistence by a certain segment of elite women leaders that Hillary Clinton was the feminist choice despite her having made the lives of an entirely other segment of women unlivable. Perhaps it simply lets writers enter in a topic and then spits out all of the studies, statistics, uplifting quotations, and anecdotes they could need to fill 300 pages. another example of the classic publishing trend of market pandering, or else there is literally an algorithm that creates books like these, desperate to speak to a moment but not of a moment. ![]() But someone figured out there would be a market for books telling the kind of women who knitted pink hats for the Women’s March, posted a couple Facebook entries about their experience, and then went back to their cozy suburban lives that they were brave to do all of that. Real anger, the kind that contorts the face and bends the body, still makes women as ugly as it ever did. Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCH. Ch 7 describes the sexist and racist microaggressions that women (particularly of colour) encounter daily, including the shocking statistic that almost half of African American scientists reported being confused for cleaning staff or admin. ![]()
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