![]() “If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. Here is just one example of Duke not being like other girls: Either way, thanks for insulting my gender, John Green. If you’re having to use one of your other characters to convince us, the audience, of how amazing, how special, how unique she is, then, and stay with me for this one, maybe you should invest more time on developing said character. Duke does not feel like a complex character. ![]() WELL WHAT ARE THE REST OF US, JP? JOHN GREEN, YOU MASTER OF WRITINGS FEMALES, PLEASE TELL ME? “She was much more like a person than other girls were.” I shit you not, an actual line from this novel (drivel) is: Do you know how I know this? Because not only is it in her characterisation (tomboy, but just the right amount of girly and pretty, but also not enough to be seen as a weak girl, because you know, she is one of the lads really) but JP HAS TO REMIND US EVERY TWO SECONDS THAT DUKE IS NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS. She is our special, not-like-other-girls type of girl. It tells girls that their bodies are not their own and they are something to be gawked at, judged. It contributes to the discourse that women lose value when they’ve enjoyed sex. It adds to the narrative that women confident in their bodies are slutty. It was a snide comment made at the expense of Lindsay Lohan (I genuinely can’t believe the book named her) who the media has branded as this party animal, wild child, promiscuous woman… Like? Legs: always open? What sort of slut shaming shit is this? Like this was not meant as a compliment in any sort of way. what in the heck? For one, this is a disgusting comment anyways. “I forgot that Waffle Houses are like Lindsay Lohan’s legs: always open.” There were many instances that really, really irked me and I found so incredibly offensive. Whether it was engaging in stereotypes such as: hot cheerleaders are just there to serve your sexual fantasies, as they are nothing more than a dumb, walking sexual object to be admired and then participating in creating those “you’re not like other girls” characters. ![]() This book shamed women in pretty much every way imaginable, one way in which is that it engaged in slut shaming. Slut Shaming! Yay! Because why mind your own business when you can constantly shame others? I genuinely could not believe some of the stuff I read. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger, three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House (and the hash brown spoils), and the fate of a teacup pig falls into the hands of a lovesick barista.Ī trio of today’s bestselling authors – John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle – brings all the magic of holidays to life in three hilarious and charming interconnected tales of love, romance, and kisses that will steal your breath away.īefore I begin this review, I’d like to thank (and apologise) to Hayley and Emer for putting up with my rants about this for the last couple of days. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train and sets off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives. Let It Snow is a collection of three moving holiday romances by John Green, Lauren Myracle and Maureen Johnson.Īn ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos.
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