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Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!
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my lovely, trim, glamorous little sister received this book as a Christmas gift this year. its suspicious cover and title got the better of me, and i tore through the text in no more than two hours and needing a paper bag to breathe into. it was almost exactly what i expected. the emotionally and mentally abusive text - replete with cussing and pejoratives at least 4x per page - is nothing more than an obvious promotion of veganism. while i haven't anything against choosing to eat however one would like, what alarms me is the seductive manner this book immediately fashions itself to be - the chick-lit looking cover with the starred "#1 New York Times Best Seller!" gives it off like some trendy book about health choices told through singleton-esque faux-witted tones. what the book actually contains is a violent script calling women "fat pigs" and "slobs" as well as "pussies" for eating meat products, drinking alcohol, milk, coffee, soda, and basically anything short of water and eating only what has naturally fallen off a tree limb. i would have been more impressed had the women hand-written it on dead bark.
an entire chapter was tugged from Eisnitz' "Slaughterhouse" - it includes excerpts from interviews with slaughterhouse workers describing in horrid detail the gravest of their sins. it claims, thusly, that eating meat is like eating anger, fear and terror.
tough-love this most certainly is not. if eating figs and berries is a call to love and saving the world one bite at a time, these women shouldn't be filled with such bile and spite.
an entire chapter was tugged from Eisnitz' "Slaughterhouse" - it includes excerpts from interviews with slaughterhouse workers describing in horrid detail the gravest of their sins. it claims, thusly, that eating meat is like eating anger, fear and terror.
tough-love this most certainly is not. if eating figs and berries is a call to love and saving the world one bite at a time, these women shouldn't be filled with such bile and spite.
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December 1, 2007
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December 27, 2007
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Jan 31, 2009 12:17PM
Right on, Kristin.
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Do you really think that veganism is wrong, or is it that you are uncomfortable making that choice for yourself? Any book entitled Skinny Bitch is bound to have rough language on it. That seems like a no brainer. If anything this should help you to reflect on the choices you make and how they affect more than just yourself. You think that advocating the consumption of more vegetables and grains and less soda and meat is really unhealthy? Stop kidding yourself.
Mac, I am with you!This book is fantastic.
True!Only people who don't want accept the necessary facts about meat-diary industry don't like it.
mac wrote: "Do you really think that veganism is wrong, or is it that you are uncomfortable making that choice for yourself? Any book entitled Skinny Bitch is bound to have rough language on it. That seems lik..."Mac,
Tactfully said. I read reviews like this all the time about this topic, and I always question whether or not to respond, or if it will make any difference at all. I think you summed it up pretty well.
Becoming vegan, or at least trying to slant your lifestyle away form meat and dairy, is a personal journey that often takes something a little bit different for everyone. Food is such an emotional subject for people because it speaks to personal choices, tradition, and how they grew up. Books like this, I believe, are intended to ruffle some feathers, to get people to investigate, think, and challenge what have grown up with, what they are used to, or what is marketed towards them as "truth".
Unfortunately some people don't react with an open mind, but rather pick out the small, inconsequential details such as the vulgarity (which is clearly intended and obviously included, given the title), and generalize the entire text and all the research (which honestly, for such a small book, was a lot) down to "violent" pro-veganism. Which this book is not. It's just... honest.
While I can understand how some people would be turned off by the language, I also wouldn't think those same types of people would choose a book entitled Skinny Bitch, nor finish the entire thing if they were so offended. For readers who don't enjoy the frankness of this book, I would recommend The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World for an extraordinary explanation about how what you eat affects you and the planet. For the son of Baskin and ROBBINS to turn down an ice cream empire, I would think he has some damn good reasons why.
I agree with the last 4 posts, I thought this book was ace, although it validates what I already believe and made me chuckle. x
I read this at Borders and caught on to that too. I am allergic to most veggies. SEVERELY allergic and so have to be very careful.
Loved the book. Useful parts . Diet anything , high fructose corn syrup and other things you would never eat if you knew what it was and what it did to you . Reference book for me. And it worked . NOT a diet , lifestyle.I'm healthy. Works.
