Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death

by Erin Gibson Narrated by Erin Gibson

Overview

From the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host of the Throwing Shade podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary perfect for fans of Lindy West and Roxane Gay.

Since women earned the right to vote a little under one hundred years ago, our progress hasn't been the Olympic sprint toward gender equality first wave feminists hoped for, but more of a slow, elderly mall walk (with frequent stops to Cinnabon) over the four hundred million hurdles we still face. Some of these obstacles are obvious-unequal pay, under-representation in government, reproductive restrictions, lack of floor-length mirrors in hotel rooms. But a lot of them are harder to identify. They're the white noise of oppression that we've accepted as lady business as usual, and the patriarchy wants to keep it that way.

Erin Gibson has a singular goal-to create a utopian future where women are recognized as humans. In Feminasty -- titled after her nickname on the hit podcast "Throwing Shade" -- she has written a collection of make-you-laugh-until-you-cry essays that expose the hidden rules that make life as a woman unnecessarily hard and deconstructs them in a way that's bold, provocative and hilarious.

Whether it's shaming women for having their periods, allowing them into STEM fields but never treating them like they truly belong, or dictating strict rules for how they should dress in every situation, Erin breaks down the organized chaos of old fashioned sexism, intentional and otherwise, that systemically keeps women down.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

10/08/2018
In her edgy, fierce, and funny debut essay collection, comedian and Throwing Shade podcast cohost Gibson serves up scathing wit and graphic observations on the “insane ways people try to control” women. Part memoir, part consciousness-raising handbook, the 18 essays repackage “lady sadness into digestible comedy.” In an essay about common types of gender traitors (everyone from Phyllis Schlafly to “Your Mom’s Worst Friend, Deborah”), she opines, “Women make life (more) terrible for other women because they haven’t gotten the memo about it being retrograde as fuck.” In another, she urges women to divest from male-owned makeup companies and stores and dispenses tips about women-owned makeup products to switch to. Elsewhere, she addresses a profane and funny open letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, schooling her on statistics around campus rape and asking her to reinstate protections against it. Several entries reprise commentaries from her podcast, but Gibson adds context with tales of her Christian upbringing in Texas and misspent early adulthood. The result is a bubbly acid bath of clever invective encouraging her fellow women to make the world a better place. Agent: Hannah Brown Gordon, Foundry Literary + Media. (Sept.)

From the Publisher

We dare you to find a more relatable book title. Comedian and Throwing Shade podcast host Erin Gibson gave us the gift of this collection of omg-I'm-literally-dying level hilarious essays that tackle the 'hidden rules that make life as a woman harder.' Not only will you learn sh*t, but you'll also laugh a lot. What could be better than that?"
—Betches.com

"The rhetorical purposes of the work are clear: Gibson seeks to lift up women at every opportunity, especially by changing the gender balance in political power."—Kirkus Reviews

"Gibson uses her very presence as an act of defiance-she's a loud Southern lady with size-11 feet who grew up poor white trash-and readers will be grateful that she can't keep her mouth shut."—Booklist

"Erin Gibson—one-half of the crazy-popular Throwing Shade podcast—is as sharply funny as she is unabashedly feminist. Damn smart, too. Each of the essays in this book is an eye-opening lesson in how the patriarchy is working against us, and how to fight back. #themoreyouknow"—Cosmopolitan

"In her edgy, fierce, and funny debut essay collection, comedian and 'Throwing Shade' podcast cohost Gibson serves up scathing wit and graphic observations on the 'insane ways people try to control' women...The result is a bubbly acid bath of clever invective encouraging her fellow women to make the world a better place."—Publisher's Weekly

"Feminasty is laugh-out-loud funny. But it'll also make you seriously mad. Erin Gibson, co-host of the podcast Throwing Shade, sheds light on niche women's issues that aren't at the forefront of the news but desperately need our attention."—HelloGiggles.com

"Gibson blazes across the page like a firework shooting over a landscape of ALL CAPS and italics for emphasis...Feminasty is a Best-Friend Book. Reading it feels like having a feminist hype-woman in your corner. She's taking patriarchal bullies apart with the catty, flippant venom they deserve. She's pouring you a glass of something bubbly. She's making you laugh til it runs out your nose."—Portland Mercury

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170348824
Publisher:	Hachette Audio
Publication date:	09/04/2018
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	1,164,906

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