Book Review: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud

I finished reading this book at 1.30 a.m. yesterday. Tucked in my bed, with the comforter wrapped around me, I wondered if such a book on men existed. One that analyses multiple men and how they talked, acted or rose to success, not from a charisma/ambition standpoint but from a gender’s standpoint.

In a woman’s world, success is often followed closely by scrutiny and the danger of backlash. The women in this book, from Serena Williams to Hillary Clinton all only have two things in common. One, that they are successful, famous women and two, that they have all been told they are “too …. ”. This book analyses how a woman in the public eye is vilified the moment she refuses to curate her image according to society.

I enjoyed some chapters in this book more than others. The women in this book are not flawless or without mistake, they’re simply human. Unfortunately, simply being is a luxury women often have to fight for. I long for the day where we no longer have to expend our energies analysing women like this.