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Bad Lawyer: A Memoir of Law and Disorder
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DNF @ pg. 190.
Though I enjoyed the writing style for the memoir, I could not tolerate the privilege that oozed from the writer. Undergrad & law school paid for by family all for a profession she didn’t want to get into in the first place. She has constant need to want to feel like a minority and it’s invalidating to intersectional identities.
At one point, she said it was exciting to feel hate-crimed as a lesbian as if the trauma and struggles of minorities, let alone queer people of color are something to be glamorized by white people.
In the end, I’m sad and angry because I thought that I’d enjoy this book more. Maybe I’m just bitter that I don’t come from a wealthy multi-generation lawyer family who paid for everything.
Though I enjoyed the writing style for the memoir, I could not tolerate the privilege that oozed from the writer. Undergrad & law school paid for by family all for a profession she didn’t want to get into in the first place. She has constant need to want to feel like a minority and it’s invalidating to intersectional identities.
At one point, she said it was exciting to feel hate-crimed as a lesbian as if the trauma and struggles of minorities, let alone queer people of color are something to be glamorized by white people.
In the end, I’m sad and angry because I thought that I’d enjoy this book more. Maybe I’m just bitter that I don’t come from a wealthy multi-generation lawyer family who paid for everything.
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Sep 04, 2024 11:45AM
I kind of agree with this review....I felt conflicted at times for the reasons you stated. I am sitting on a mountain of student loan debt for law school so I can certainly not relate to that level of financial privilege, but I kinda detached myself from this and looked at it more objectively...sans my own frustration with not being bankrolled....and I think it was somewhat clear throughout the progression of the book that she kinda grew up as she moved through her 20s and 30s. I can relate to the apathy that the legal field can extract upon being pummelled by the realities of it, and I think maybe that comes across as oozing privilege...and I guess in a way it is evidence of just that. But she did front a lot of these realities instead of ignoring them, so I can't attack her too much for being born with the opportunities she had. It's a bummer she didn't appreciate it tho....but I guess that's how it always goes......
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