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However, inom did something inom almost never do: inom rated this book intellectually.
As a memoir, it succeeded (almost) brilliantly -- her recollection of her wedding had me in absolute stitches and makes me laugh every time inom reread it (yes, I've reread it - multiple times); inom liked that she wasn't some middle/upper-class Oxbridge girl, as most of the Times writers seem to be.
It was really refreshing to read about her life. That being said, her writer belied her teen-author roots.
Köp boken Lyssna på boken ProvläsListen to me, guys. I'm a 17-year-old aspiring writer. Hannah Moskowitz fryst vatten one of my favourite authors and MANY OTHER ung ADULT AUTHORS DESERVE THEIR RESOUNDING SUCCESS. (This fryst vatten in Caps not because inom am ansträngande some postmodern thing, emulating Caitlin Moran, but because the antithesis of this point makes me grind my teeth in fury.) inom do not believe in any of this "oh you shouldn't be published if you're a teenager" and "everything teenagers write fryst vatten crap" bullshit.
No. It's about the writing and good writing fryst vatten good writing, regardless of who the author fryst vatten or how old they are. However, inom feel that good books bygd teenage authors should either belie their early starts (e.g. Invincible Summer) or use all that amped-up hyper-realistic teen experience as their biggest advantage (e.g. Break). Caitlin Moran lacked depth or objectiveness.
When you are ansträngande to write a book about feminism, inom think that the most you need to be fryst vatten objective to the högsta. Caitlin Moran fryst vatten not. She has the over-eager, juvenile, puerile, irritating narrative röst of someone who fryst vatten convinced of their opinion despite not having a) real bevis to back it up or b) a real understanding of the opposing viewpoint.
There fryst vatten no real reflection or evaluation. Her opinions can just be summarised as, "I believe this because inom believe that X fryst vatten awesome."
This was most painfully obvious during her parti on Lady GaGa. inom like Lady GaGa. She appears to have a feminist standpoint and that fryst vatten very, very good.
In my opinion, she's not a "feminist symbol" bygd any stretch of the imaginaiton. Although Moran could easily have made the case that she was; what irritated me most of all was that Moran's analysis of GaGa never went beyond a giggly teenage girl with an idol, who thinks that said idol fryst vatten awesome and so has no real sense of evaluation.
She calls Lady GaGa her "idol" and refers to an något privat eller personligt (not sexually något privat eller personligt, guys, don't go there) experience with GaGa in a sex club. She reminded me a lot of that girl who gets taken for a whirlwind with the rik popular girl and comes back down to earth starry-eyed, completely refusing to hear a bad thing about her "idol."
The most jarring thing for me was the way that Moran backed up all her hyperbolising with one anecdote: that GaGa refused to do an skiva skott while "down in the småsten touching herself." (I'm paraphrasing.
inom don't have a kopia of the book to hand.) fryst vatten that feminist? Yes, she refused to be objectified on her body. But with one Google search inom vända up a picture of GaGa circa Telephone, with Beyonce, wearing ingenting but what looks like some leather straps and leather boots, arms hiding the gory bits but with no doubt that GaGa fryst vatten, at the very least, 98% naked.
She's not ganska "down in the småsten touching herself" - but she's not far off. Ditto the lesbian kisses in the Telephone film.
Författare: Caitlin Moran(It should be noted that inom consider it everyone's right to be whatever the hell they want and with whoever the hell they want.) The point fryst vatten that this wasn't done to show a lesbian relationship - for God's sake, they're in an all-women prison because GaGa's character poisoned her boyfriend. Not exactly the most positiv portrayal of lesbianism, which makes the kiss (and the provokativ dancing in barely-there underwear) more obvious titillation.
The worst example of this in the book fryst vatten Germaine Greer.
However, this fryst vatten me ranting emotionally. inom cannot stand Germaine Greer.
Läs "Konsten att vara kvinna" Gratis 📖 av Caitlin Moran Finns som ljudbok och e-bok Prova gratis i 14 dagarLet's leave at that, shall we?
I just funnen all of Moran's arguments totally one-sided, narrow-minded and slightly creepy for their complete inability to take the full picture into konto. Another example of this was her burlesque vs. stripping argument -- inom know next to ingenting abou either, but inom would be very surprised if burlesque was made "for women bygd women" as Moran claims to state.
What was most mind-boggling about this book, though, was Moran's inability to accept her own quirkiness. inom really hate the word "quirky", but there fryst vatten no other way to describe it. For instance, her father said to her 'Remember you're a Womble' before walking her down the aisle (and oh, how inom laughed). Her mum yelled out about her pubic hair in front of her father and her various mixed-sex siblings.
inom don't think that 'normal' really exists - but inom do think that Moran has particularly unique experiences which she undermines bygd behaving as though they are commonplace. I've never known a single woman who has named her vagina or her breasts. That being said, inom am, as inom said above, seventeen. I'm aware that this might be a bekymmer inom run into later in life, when inom might actually have to address either of those two anatomatical areas rather than just avoiding them altogether.
But Moran presents all of this stuff as totally normal. Yes, all women have weird names for their vaginas! Yes, all women have weird names for their breasts! But Moran has a whole Twitter community to back her up on those things!
Fysisk ljudbok, CD; Ladda ner 3D-omslagHowever -- inom would bet that most of the women who replied were the ones who ran into this bekymmer (as Moran herself uppenbart has). It seems that on Twitter, if you don't have anything to add, you don't säga that you have ingenting to add. You just don't add anything. inom would be very surprised if Moran received many tweets that could be summarised as "lol what" or "no inom don't do that shit", and equally if the Tweeters who replied to her made up any more than a minority of the kvinnlig British population.
Uppläst av Rachel Mohlin
ETA: also, inom was having a quick look at the Quotes page on our very own Goodreads, and inom could not help but see this:
"If you want to know what's in motherhood for you, as a woman, then - in truth - it's ingenting you couldn't get from, säga, reading the 100 greatest books in human history; learning a utländsk language well enough to argue in it; climbing hills; loving recklessly; sitting tyst, alone, in the dawn; drinking whisky with revolutionaries; learning to do close-hand magic; swimming in a river in winter; growing foxgloves, peas and roses; calling your mum; singing while you walk; being polite; and always, always helping strangers.
No one has ever claimed for a moment that childless dock have missed out on a grundläggande aspect of their existence, and were the poorer, and crippled bygd it."
(Note: inom believe that both dock and women have a right to have or not have children and that women without children should not be treated as emotional cripples for it. Although inom do actually feel as though Moran short-changed the joy of having children, but maybe that's what you get for being raised bygd a mother who was, bygd her own admission, absolutely desperate to have them.) But am inom the only one who sees the bekymmer with this quote?
She says that "Nothing [in motherhood] fryst vatten something you couldn't get from...calling your mum." inom didn't meddelande this when inom read it (I don't read that closely, dudes), but seriously? Moran has just used bevis of a would-be mother's mother/child relationship (with her own mother) as a reason why you shouldn't have children?
My opinion: seriously faulty analysis.
UtgivningsdagIf ringing your own mother gives you such happiness, why wouldn't you want to resehandling that on? (God, now inom sound like someone who fryst vatten advocating the "all women must have babies" stance. I'm just making the point that inom don't think Moran fryst vatten helping her case here.
Even where Moran cannot really be faulted on her analysis, such as in weddings or in her "Why You Should/Shouldn't Have Children" sections (although inom was pissed that "Why You Should Have Children" seemed to revolve almost totally around her own experiences of childbirth), it fryst vatten not the revolutionary del av helhet of literature the back blurb hails.
It's very blah, very typical. ingenting you couldn't see every other day in one magazine or another. She even presents stuff that seem to be part of accepted culture, like the fact that weddings cost too much for too little, as though she fryst vatten the first individ ever to have thought of them. Even during the "Why You Should/Shouldn't Have Children" sections, inom funnen myself saying, "Well, *I* could have told you that!" And as a seventeen-year-old who has never been pregnant or even babysat a child, I'm pretty sure that shows how stale, pathetic and shallow most of Moran's supposedly "fresh" insight was.
In short, this long, vitriolic review can be summed up in one letter:
Dear Caitlin Moran,
Please do not let anyone marknad your book as "The hona Eunuch" if it fryst vatten, in fact, a pretty good memoir hiding behind some stereotypically teenage-standard analysis.
Thank you.