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Cargando... The Witches Are Coming (edición 2019)por Lindy West (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I’d read a craigslist ad if Lindy wrote it. West is a hometown hero for me. I'm a fan. I was always going to like this book. But I will say SHRILL sort of rocked my world because it really changed how I felt about how pervasive and acceptable anti-fat ideas and policies are. WITCHES is confident, funny, true and feminist, but it didn't have much for me that was new. The same is true of TRICK MIRROR, which I also liked a lot. I feel like Lindy and Jia are writing on some level for posterity. I didn't need to read their books to understand that Trump is the worst, that climate change is an emergency, that feminism has issues, etc. Still, I enjoyed reading their books. Soooo... I feel like I'm betraying my feminist, Trump hating, self by giving this three stars. But, there was just something not enjoyable about this book. I have zero idea what it was but I just found myself reading it as fast as I could to get done with it. I love the TV show Shrill so I know that I can like the author's stuff. Maybe it was all just to... preachy? I think the issue I was having (and it probably is not an issue with the book, the author, etc.) is that what's the solution here? Here's a book screaming at me what I feel internally but with no help. And, it's just another book that only like minded people will read. So, what's the point. Maybe I just feel so hopeless with the current world that the book brings me down. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"This is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you. From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series Shrill, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've got one. In a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and sometimes tragic, politics of not being a white man in the 21st century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice, and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics -- and that delivered us to this precarious, disorienting moment in history. West writes, "We were just a hair's breadth from electing America's first female president to succeed America's first black president. We weren't done, but we were doing it. And then, true to form -- like the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing, 'If I can't have you, no one can' -- white American voters shoved an incompetent, racist con-man into the White House." We cannot understand how we got here -- how the land of the free became Trump's America -- without examining the chasm between who we are and who we think we are, without fact-checking the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and each other. The truth can transform us; there is witchcraft in it. Lindy West turns on the light."--provided by publisher. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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