A feminist critiques movies by and about white guys – but why?
Dec 12, 2020
3 minutes
CAETLIN BENSON-ALLOTT
WHEN a new book by Lindy West comes out, I clear my schedule.
Alongside Roxane Gay and Samantha Irby, West has become one of the most popular and influential feminists of her generation. In 2016, she published , a charming and widely praised collection of personal essays that explore and condemn 21st-century misogyny, fat-shaming, white privilege and kindred forms of oppression. Her 2019 follow-up, expanded her range of topics, a collection of 23 short essays in which West “rewatches successful movies from the past to see how they hold up to our shifting modern sensibilities”.
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