A review by beneatthetrees
Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas by Jenny Allen

1.0

I was not prepared for the barrage of petty grievances found in this book. I was not prepared to hear [so and so] "looks a little gay" as a sly aside???? I wasn't prepared for an entire chapter dedicated to an imaginary interview with Elmer Fudd??? I wasn't prepared for list after list after list of: things wrong with her house, things she doesn't like that other people do, things she'd borrow from an imaginary friend (very detailed). And the whole time there were wildly ableist overtones for truly petty reasons-- being on a help line ends with her imaginary self ending up in the "looney bin" or when she said everyone should walk with walkers all the time to help stop themselves from ever falling before quickly scoffing and saying that would be "pathetic." Pathetic was used a lot, ironically.

Overall this truly felt like "Jenny Allen's Shower Thoughts" that should've just stayed in the shower.