Feminasty

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From the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host of the ThrowingShade podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary perfect for fans of Lindy West and Roxane Gay.

Since women earned the right to vote a little under one hundredyears ago, our progress hasn’t been the Olympic sprint toward genderequality first wave feminists hoped for, but more of a slow, elderlymall walk (with frequent stops to Cinnabon) over the four hundredmillion hurdles we still face. Some of these obstacles areobvious-unequal pay, under-representation in government, reproductiverestrictions, lack of floor-length mirrors in hotel rooms. But a lot ofthem are harder to identify. They’re the white noise of oppression thatwe’ve accepted as lady business as usual, and the patriarchy wants tokeep it that way.

Erin Gibson has a singular goal-to create autopian future where women are recognized as humans. In Feminasty — titledafter her nickname on the hit podcast “Throwing Shade” — she has written acollection of make-you-laugh-until-you-cry essays that expose the hidden rules that make life as a woman unnecessarily hard anddeconstructs them in a way that’s bold, provocative and hilarious.

Whether it’s shaming women for having their periods, allowing them into STEM fields but never treating them like they truly belong, or dictatingstrict rules for how they should dress in every situation, Erin breaks down the organized chaos of old fashioned sexism, intentional and otherwise, that systemically keeps women down.