Bad Feminist

A collection of essays about pop culture, feminism, race and so on. The Finnish edition is couple of essays shorter than the US edition, which was fine – none of the topics felt particularly unfamiliar, I knew what she was talking about. She's funny, sharp and generally quite interesting.

Did I learn something new? I'm not sure. Did the book rub the poor state of things for women and people of color in the US in my face, repeatedly? Yes, and for good reason, I suppose. I've never understood the attack on women's reproductive freedoms in the US; it makes zero sense to me that a bunch of men want to control all the things that relate to sexual health of women. Fortunately it's not as bad in Finland, even though there's plenty of misogyny in the structures here as well, making this a necessary book.