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A review by amxlia
If Women Rose Rooted: A Life-changing Journey to Authenticity and Belonging by Sharon Blackie
medium-paced
0.75
An excruciatingly read made only barely palatable by the folktale inclusions, which were very interesting in their own right. Blatant bioessentialism aside, I don’t believe I’ve ever read anything as cloyingly self-serving as this in my entire life, and I hope never to again.
I’ll leave this with an unbelievably relevant Ursula K Le Guin quote,
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
I’ll leave this with an unbelievably relevant Ursula K Le Guin quote,
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
Content Warnings
Moderate: Transphobia