Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

Like a few reviews I've just read, for some reason this book didn't call out to me as much as some other feminist literature that had been suggested over the last year and a half. I don't know why, and it would seem others don't know either. Is it because we've been repeatedly told that shrill women are shrew-ish, have annoying voices or are aggressive? If so, it highlights how ingrained misogyny is into our lives and our beliefs.

Either way, if this book is what being shrill is really all about then we should all want to be more shrill. She takes on fat-shaming, rape jokes, internet trolls and not allowing society to keep pushing women back into the seen-but-not-heard box.

Fat or thin, shrill or otherwise, this really is a must-read. Hell it even got me writing this review! Not only that but it got me thinking about how I really need to change my attitude towards my own fat body away from one of loathing and disgust.