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Burnout by Emily Nagoski
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did not like it
bookshelves: at-your-own-risk

This book is such a disappointment. Buckets of crazy feminist bs in it. This sucks as a help book.

It started out pretty good but turned into an annoying tirade about patriarchy and an obesity glorifying mantra.

I was stressed out just reading it. The messages are a copy&paste from girls magazines: find joy, not happinness, connection and passion are key, etc. etc. The villain is the patriarchy only, and being overweight is awesome, because we are all such special snowflakes. I hear you, dear author. None should be discriminated because of their appearance. But why, not once do you mention the medical issues overweight entails. I wonder why, dear overweight author.

This particular part of the book annoyed me to no end, because Nagoski does not talk about the real issue at hand, that being the fact that most societies discriminate people because of their appearance and maybe try to see the reasons for that. The Nagoski sisters just are just stuck at the point hammering into your head that you're awesome, no matter how unhealthy your lifestyle may be to your own body. It feels like this book is their message board to all those who bullied them because of their weight. Well, that's not what I was paying for.

#The world changes! The nonsense of discrimination towards women is NOT status quo anymore everywhere. I just need to ask about the gender quote in an interview for a new job, and the male interviewer starts sweating immediately. We get pampered just because of our sex. That is not equality.
There's nothing eye-opening in this book. None of the promised helpful advice. Not a recommendation from me.
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Reading Progress

January 31, 2019 – Shelved as: to-read
January 31, 2019 – Shelved
January 31, 2019 – Shelved as: at-your-own-risk
April 4, 2019 – Started Reading
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April 7, 2019 – Finished Reading

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message 1: by Kirsty (new)

Kirsty THANK you! I stopped reading at the weight chapter. It was so dangerously misleading.


message 2: by Anna (new) - rated it 1 star

Anna It was!


Angela McConachie I agree. Not a good book and definitely not ground breaking!


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