Feminasty - Erin Gibson

Feminasty

By Erin Gibson

  • Release Date: 2018-09-04
  • Genre: Humor
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 32 Ratings

Description

From the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host of the Throwing Shade podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary perfect for fans of Lindy West and Roxane Gay.

Since women earned the right to vote a little under one hundred years ago, our progress hasn't been the Olympic sprint toward gender equality first wave feminists hoped for, but more of a slow, elderly mall walk (with frequent stops to Cinnabon) over the four hundred million hurdles we still face. Some of these obstacles are obvious-unequal pay, under-representation in government, reproductive restrictions, lack of floor-length mirrors in hotel rooms. But a lot of them are harder to identify. They're the white noise of oppression that we've accepted as lady business as usual, and the patriarchy wants to keep it that way.

Erin Gibson has a singular goal-to create a utopian future where women are recognized as humans. In Feminasty -- titled after her nickname on the hit podcast "Throwing Shade" -- she has written a collection of make-you-laugh-until-you-cry essays that expose the hidden rules that make life as a woman unnecessarily hard and deconstructs them in a way that's bold, provocative and hilarious.

Whether it's shaming women for having their periods, allowing them into STEM fields but never treating them like they truly belong, or dictating strict rules for how they should dress in every situation, Erin breaks down the organized chaos of old fashioned sexism, intentional and otherwise, that systemically keeps women down.

Reviews

  • Perfect feminist book!

    5
    By Defend ruins
    Erin is at her best when she is taking down the patriarchy! She is witty, smart and funny as hell! Read this book now our future may just depend upon it!
  • Feminism 101

    5
    By Powerbottomforjesus
    More books like this one should be out on the market and given to boys and girls from a very young age so both genders learn from a very young age what feminism is all about. To start off, Gibson opens the book with an “To Women; You are not my competition.” If that doesn’t do it for you, then I suggest you keep reading because Gibson takes her readers on a hilarious journey of anecdotes depicting what is like to be a woman. All and all, this book is outstanding and unapologetically a master piece of feminism.

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