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Shit, Actually by Lindy West
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Literally laughed out loud more than once. Satisfactorily entertaining, although by the end I was ready for it to be over and had kind of lost interest in her mocking American Pie. I think there was only one or two movies I hadn’t seen, but I can see this book not landing at all if you haven’t seen the majority.

“Of course, it must be acknowledged that The Fugitive is a movie all about men, where women don’t do very much except die or sometimes hold a clipboard. It’s all men who are the boss, but who is the most boss of the men??? Is it the Harrison Ford kind of boss or the Tommy Lee Jones kind of boss? They’re both your dad, but which is the best spanker????? This is allowed because in 1993 it was still okay to make movies all about men, as their contract wasn’t up yet.”
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Reading Progress

October 20, 2020 – Started Reading
October 20, 2020 – Shelved
October 24, 2020 – Shelved as: 2020
October 24, 2020 – Finished Reading

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message 1: by Phrodrick (new)

Phrodrick vague sense that this is about politicizing something else
Then again I go to a movie about 1 time a year.


Laura Noggle Phrodrick wrote: "vague sense that this is about politicizing something else
Then again I go to a movie about 1 time a year."


It was mostly attempted satire, tinged with modern day reflections on what "used to pass" ... so yeah, a bit politicized, but in fairly good fun.


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