Female empowerment or the opposite?
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Female empowerment or the opposite?
While the book seems to be intentioned at taking a progressive stance on sexism in the modern world, do you think it succeeds in its mission?
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I couldn't have said this better myself. I completely agree that, while the author may have been trying to promote strong female characters, it seemed to get lost in the translation with these descriptions of the various females in the book. I kept wondering why the male characters weren't described in the same fashion.Karlee Berrios wrote: ↑04 Aug 2021, 11:50 I actually felt like the book had misogynistic undertones throughout. Every single woman was talked about with sexual undertones. Even the future MIL, “Her smooth golden thighs wink from underneath her dusty rose tennis skirt, complete with a white spaghetti-strap shirt”. And Makayla is portrayed as a caricature of a person, as if being successful and still being a good person wasn’t possible for women. To me, this book felt written by someone who sees women as one-dimensional and doesn’t have a very high opinion of them.
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