unlikeableFP
gimme an unhinged female narrator and a seasonal latte and my weekend plans are complete.
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Knowing that the Joe Rogan podcast is credited as one of the reasons that Trump got so many young male votes, and now hearing that this is how it went down is super disheartening. We do have to take it with a grain of salt because there are conflicting accounts coming from Harris‘s team and Rogan‘s team, but if this is truly how it happened, I wish we could know what the outcome would have been if all sides played fairly. 
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I was confused why it’s taken me so long to get through this book, but I really think it’s because after every ~20 pages or so the despair of what we have instead of Harris sets in
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What a raw chapter about the realities of not only married life, but also how much strain the stress of a job can place on personal relationships.
I found myself thinking “Doug wtf??” throughout this chapter but his response to their fight was exactly the point of being married. “We can’t turn on each other.” Even when times are hard, you are a team. You’re both going to royally fuck up from time to time and hurt each other the way Doug did to Kamala in this chapter. Especially in a situation as stressful as they are in. But how are you going to come together after that happens? How are you going to fix the problem?
I’m so glad she included this vulnerable look into her life.
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what a RIDE these last two chapters have been. The most painful thing is to be an insignificant footnote in someone’s story, when they were the entire chapter for you.
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Two pages later: CONFIRMED Ethan is pissin me off 😤 And Simone is a goddess. What she sees in him is to be determined
Ethan: “There’s something stunted about her. Maybe about all moms? Like there’s a limit to how much you can grow as a person once you’ve made a person.”
Simone: “that’s insane Ethan. She’s been through things we can’t imagine. Our lives involve nothing approaching that level of responsibility. Were the ones for whom growth is limited.”
“He was never able to predict when Simone would side with another woman over him. Her sporadic allegiance to her sex always took him by surprise.”
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It was rumored he once told Billy, “No woman has ever written a truly comic novel” This line making me cackle is the best, most enjoyable irony I’ve encountered in a long time!!
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“The way he ordered a coffee, you knew his Dad had never loved him” I love it and I’m laughing!
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Seduction Theory
Emily Adrian
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Trans people: Less than 1% of the population Less than 10 played on women’s college sports teams in 2024 2 federal prisoners have received court ordered gender affirmation surgery 350 transgender people were murdered in 2024
I appreciated this stark set of facts that clarifies how trans rights are being used as a political issue when what we are really talking about only adds up to a handful of cases that could be solved individually depending on individual circumstances. The likelihood of a trans person’s rights being in conflict with the rights of cisgender people is so small (even in this handful of cases, was it affected cisgender people pushing or political motivation?) compared to the danger transgender people face from assault and murder.
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107 Days
Kamala Harris
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I spent most of the book waiting for the pieces to fit together so I could see the whole picture. Finally, I asked in the forum, and someone explained to me that it was more symbolic, and not meant to stand as a story where every element made literal sense. She is a tree, or maybe the environment. She wants to be still and non-violent, but everyone is using her for their own benefit. Okay. It does make a lot more sense, but it didn't make me enjoy the book that much more. I feel like the plot should hold itself together and make logical sense in the world the author creates, even without knowing what stands for what in the symbolic language of the work. I did some cursory research to refresh my memory; parable, fable, allegory, and--yes, the ones I have the strongest memory of are stories for children that absolutely make sense, even to a child, without understanding the symbolism. The example most people will be familiar with is the Wizard of Oz. Makes perfect sense to a child, and still has obvious symbolism ("Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"). And if you want, you can google it and find out what 1890's political figure is represented by the Cowardly Lion. And then someone reminded me of the movie Mother! (Jennifer Lawrence) that made zero sense until I understood what each character "stood for" and then it all fell into place with a thud, and the movie was revealed to have all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Now it could be that I am not refined or intellectual enough to "get it" with these high brow allegories. I wouldn't fight anyone making that charge. But doesn't it require more of a work of art to both appeal to children and casual consumers while also revealing subtle layers of hidden meaning to anyone willing to delve deeper and study the piece?
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