A review by julie8483
How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

1.0

Casually racist and transphobic. I'm confused by the critical reaction to this book and how "this is what feminism needs right now" (The Guardian) or how it "is precisely what feminism has been waiting for" (Times Literary Supplement). It's not feminism if it isn't inclusive, representing women that aren't white, straight, cisgender, able-bodied and middle-class. For someone that wrote a chapter on the harmful connotation of the word "fat", she's sure okay using slurs such as the r-word and the t-word to make a shitty joke. Also, she praises Rudy Giuliani's "Zero Tolerance" policy and how "crime dropped dramatically, significantly, and continued to for the next ten years" (pg. 13), a statement that is completely ignorant to the concept of mass incarceration. Little evidence supports the claimed effectiveness of zero-tolerance policies. It may seem to some like I'm being nitpicky or PC, but this woman has been heralded as a figure-head of feminism. This book is peak White Feminism.