Megan Peters's Reviews > Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
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bookshelves: america-n, audiobook, cultural-crit, essays, feminism, lgbtq, library, non-fiction, self-help, social-justice
Oct 17, 2023
bookshelves: america-n, audiobook, cultural-crit, essays, feminism, lgbtq, library, non-fiction, self-help, social-justice
I want to give this five stars for Gay’s thoughtful approaches to difficult subjects and her clear and direct and compelling style, but man, I had already read most of the pieces in this book at the time they were published. Only the actor/artist portraits and self help were new. That’s not to say it wasn’t great to reread some of those short opinion pieces again but they are just always already dated for me. If you haven’t read her work before or kept up with her recent writing religiously like I have, then this would be EXCELLENT, but I guess I was hoping for more new work.
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October 1, 2023
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"I’m going to run into the same issue I had with Bad Feminist (not a bad issue, per se, but an issue!) in that I’ve read a lot of these pieces before. Not bad to revisit them for sure but I guess I was hoping for new work this time, and that’s probably on me for not reading the cover more closely!"
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