A Feminist Ideologue's Very, Very Bad Book
For Throwback Wednesday, the blatherings of a stupid girl
Passed by a Little Free Library a few days ago, and while rummaging around, I found a copy of a book I reviewed back in 2016. It’s a colossal piece of garbage, written by a horrible person. Enjoy!
We’re living in Rebecca Traister’s world, and she’s loving it.
The author of All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation (Simon & Schuster; 339 pages; $27.00) is delighted that “in 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.” Unattached females are “upending everything; their growing presence has an impact on how economic, political, and sexual power is distributed between the genders.”
Marketed as a data-rich, insightful analysis of a sweeping, if little-discussed, phenomenon, Traister’s wretched book is actually warmed-over feminist whining (“many workplaces don’t have rooms where new mothers can breastfeed when they come back to work”), with a mélange of banalities that editors mistook for profundities (“it’s an error to assume all marriages are good marriages”) and a sprinkling of TMI (“for large portions of my twenties, I was having exactly no sex”).
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