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Meh. Not terrible, but not all that great either. While the premise is interesting, and the author’s experiment is certainly unique, in my opinion tha
Meh. Not terrible, but not all that great either. While the premise is interesting, and the author’s experiment is certainly unique, in my opinion that failed to translate into insight. Lots of storytelling, very little analysis or reflection. She all too often gets stuck in how guilty “deceiving� people around her made her feel, or gleefully describe the events around her repeated “coming outs�, neither of which add anything of value to the narrative. I expected more insights and self-reflection, I wanted to learn what she had learned, and to be faire there were some good tidbits there and there. But many pages are spent recounting anecdotes rather than reflecting upon them. And at times there’s some pretty blaring lack of self awareness. For example: “I felt sadness for the damage done to [boys and young men] in those rites of passage we all condone and inflict to make them into men�, judging it as “damaging� fails to realise how those rituals are positive adaptation to the expectations society (and women) have from men. While the author and I both share a distaste for strip clubs, her cliché description of it lacks analysis, and doesn’t go much further than “how cringe and depressing�. There are very astute observations about the socialisation of men in the monastery chapter (mostly at the end), yet I’m a little bit disappointed with the generalisation to “men in general�, without an attempt to deconstruct how much of it � esp. the homophobia � was actually specific to a Catholic monastic setting. To her credit, she recognises the artificiality of the setting. Nevertheless, the author occasionally shares some interesting discoveries about power distribution in the dating scene and about her (limited and bias-selected sample) female dates, which I guess could be valuable to women reading this book. It’s a quick read, stylistically she’s okay but uneven. You could easily thing you’re reading an anthology with different authors having written each chapter.
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