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A review by themodvictorian
Ok Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind by Jill Filipovic
1.0
I really wanted to like this, and I agree with much of what Filipovic states about certain topics—such as housing and money—but the writing is unfocused and sloppy, and the organization and flow of the book is poor.
The back of the edition I read claims that Filipovic draws on “data, history, and deep reporting,” but besides presenting some data—often accompanied by arbitrary little graphics that take up 1/3 of the page and add nothing to the text—she skimmed over any tidbits of history she mentioned, and the surface level, sometimes juvenile-like writing hardly presented evidence of deep reporting.
It should also be noted that Filipovic offers no real references, sources, or citations to back any of her claims, outside of the occasional name-dropping of a publication or a research center. This essentially makes the entire book more of an overlong opinion piece rather than a work of serious non-fiction.
I also must also confess that I was quite disgusted that she brushed off young people’s destructive porn habits and porn addiction as simply a result of more “diversity” in pornography and that “much of the research on porn is highly idealogical” (pg. 244), which is simply not true. Take Fight the New Drug for example, a secular non-profit organization that seeks to educate people on the harm of pornography. In fact, nearly everything Filipovic states in this book about pornography and its effects is blatantly false and reeks of disdainful bias.
Overall, this book makes a lot of broad claims and offers little to no solutions and leaves an aftertaste of hopelessness.
The back of the edition I read claims that Filipovic draws on “data, history, and deep reporting,” but besides presenting some data—often accompanied by arbitrary little graphics that take up 1/3 of the page and add nothing to the text—she skimmed over any tidbits of history she mentioned, and the surface level, sometimes juvenile-like writing hardly presented evidence of deep reporting.
It should also be noted that Filipovic offers no real references, sources, or citations to back any of her claims, outside of the occasional name-dropping of a publication or a research center. This essentially makes the entire book more of an overlong opinion piece rather than a work of serious non-fiction.
I also must also confess that I was quite disgusted that she brushed off young people’s destructive porn habits and porn addiction as simply a result of more “diversity” in pornography and that “much of the research on porn is highly idealogical” (pg. 244), which is simply not true. Take Fight the New Drug for example, a secular non-profit organization that seeks to educate people on the harm of pornography. In fact, nearly everything Filipovic states in this book about pornography and its effects is blatantly false and reeks of disdainful bias.
Overall, this book makes a lot of broad claims and offers little to no solutions and leaves an aftertaste of hopelessness.