Reviews

• Great read. Very funny.

  This book was funny as hell and I had a lot of "ooohhhh so that's not just me then" moments. Also a lot of passages I wanted to shove under feminism-haters' noses, like "see she explains it so well it's not the misandry party you think it is!!!" I think I might have to reread this every couple of years to remind myself basically how few rules there are to being a women :) A word of caution though: the book can get pretty crude at times so if you're easily offended by language and somewhat grotesque imagery this book might not be for you.

• What a gem

  I couldn7t put this down so much in here for women it should be required reading for anyone over 30

• Really good

  The book is cool. It arrived really fast and i picked up on a convenience store.

• O Livro veio em ótimas condições e foi entregue dentro do prazo determinado. Foi impresso em papel de jornal, o que o deixa leve! Vale a compra!

• A friend of mine had recommended this book to me and I have not been able to put down the book even for a moment. Caitlin Moran is humorous, brilliant and inspiring. This is a book, every woman must read. The moment I finished reading my friend's copy, I decided I need to have this book in my collection. All in all, amazing read.

• I liked this book very much. I know many reviewers found it patchy and not very good at being on message about what it is to be a woman. I disagree. I think the title leads you to believe there is more to this book than there is, but that is not necessarily the author's fault, and she does express reservations about the title in the book itself. I found Moran's reminiscences about growing up hilarious, and her blunders into the world of puberty and understanding her own body made me weep with laughter in places. I agree with other reviewers that the book is at its strongest here, and I definitely would not have been sorry if the whole book had been more of a memoir and less of a manifesto. On the other hand, the more politicised areas of writing were also entertaining in their own way. I loved the fact that Moran engages with popular culture and that she talks about icons of modern society and powerful women like Katie Price and Lady Gaga. It is easy to dismiss people who follow, read and are interested in popular culture as crass or shallow, but Moran knows her stuff. There are a lot of ordinary women out there who are way more interested in what makes Lady Gaga tick than they are about Germaine Greer. Whether this is a sad indictment of our culture or not is irrelevant. The fact is that Moran engages with material that is relevant to large numbers of our population and which ordinary women know and talk about. She is accessible, she is interesting, she is funny. Sometimes she writes with poignancy and sadness. She engaged my interest throughout. I am not saying that I agree with everything she writes. Sometimes i don't know whether she does herself, but at least she is standing up and being counted. i read many reviews where people got angry with her attitudes and opinions and what might be seen as glibness, particularly when she writes about abortion. I read these sections of the book very carefully, and it seems to me that Moran is generally quite careful to qualify her more outrageous pronouncements with the statement that these are her own experiences and opinions. Yes there is the odd rallying cry to what she calls feminism, but she is quite clear that her feminism is an all inclusive everyone together type place where you are pretty much free to do and think and say what you like as long as you have respect for others and don't do any harm. I can't see what's so terribly wrong with that. It's what I bring my children up to believe in. Respect yourself, respect others, don't be a doormat and do as you would be done by whilst trying to squeeze as much juice out of life as possible. Right?

• Justamente el libro que me faltaba. Me reía mucho y sobre todo la autora es capaz de poner los pensmaeintos más importantes sobre las mujeres y el feminismo en las palabras exactas. Creo que si más gente (también hombres) podrían leer este libro, muchas concepciones erróneas de ideas feministas podrían ser resueltas y comenzaría un nuevo diálogo que sobre todo en este país hace mucha falta.

• "When the subject turns to abortion, cosmetic intervention, birth, motherhood, sex, love, work, misogyny, fear, or just how you feel in your own skin, women still often won't tell the truth to each other unless they are very, very drunk." Caitlin Moran is right. Nowadays, you DO have to be drunk. The last time I heard a female friend relate anything even remotely personal was when L. had too much wine at book club and really tore into her deadbeat ex-husband. (Seriously, you earn $98,000 a year but can't pay child support? You JERK!) older women who were returning to finish degrees that had been nudged aside for marriage and family. Those broads rocked my world and led me away from the path of righteousness, and I THANK THEM every day for doing so. Thirty years have slipped by, and I've yet to find another group of women to whom I can say ANYTHING and not be judged. And, man, do I ever miss that! Now, if you talk about S-E-X, it's deemed T-M-I. Why is wanting to talk about something we all do too much information? Why does no one wants to go there? Well, Ms. Moran GOES THERE. From pubic hair (Yes!) to high heels (No!), she lets it all hang out. And what fun it was spending time with her. Though a continent and more than a decade separate us, I may possibly have more in common w/ Moran than any woman I've met in real life. I found her let-your-freak-flag-fly message to be reassuring, entertaining and pants-wettingly funny. Not everyone will like her, or her book. And that's okay. If even thinking about the f-word makes you blush, if you've never concocted an imaginary relationship with a male celebrity, or if you've never touched yourself "down there," put the book down and back away. If you're like me, you'll love it. Being a woman . . . after all these years, I'm pretty sure I've been doing it right.

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