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Be More Chill
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Wow. I cannot believe how much I wanted to like this book and how disappointed I was by how misogynistic it is! Misogynistic, by the way, technically means "hates women" and, while I don't think Ned Vizzini (or the protagonist, Jeremy) hates women, I think this book INCORRECTLY represents high school girls as complete idiots. He presents the idea that if a boy simply wears the right t-shirt and says two "correct" sentences then she will instantly become sexually and personally attracted to him. Really?!?!? REALLY?!?!? (Can you tell this book made me mad?!?) I really liked the premise of the book, and it seemed to be a fairly accurate portrayal of adolescence in many ways, but the way that girls are portrayed was just too flat, simple, demeaning and inaccurate for me to be able to recommend this book. Argh....
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January 7, 2011
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January 7, 2011
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January 7, 2011
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January 7, 2011
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Jan 17, 2011 02:03PM
I started reading it and thought the same thing about "INCORRECTLY REPRESENTING" high school students.
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Wow. I'm actually relieved to hear that this book is NOT as accurate as I had thought (feared) in its portrayal of high school students. Whew!
Now a days, all girls act like that stop taking things so seriously!!!
I don't think the book did that at all. I think rather than categorizing all high school students I think he just based certain characters on people he knew in high school or saw in high school. Because high school students can be much like what he described in his book just not all of them.
It's supposed to be heavy satire...
Not many young adult or younger readers (to which the book is marketed towards) will understand the alleged satire.
