A Year in Reading: Sonya Chung
What did I read this year? Not a lot that I loved, to be honest. And kind of a mishmash. It was a strange year…
I started 2021 distressed like everyone on the planet, but also coping with heartbreak. , I decided. I’m I picked up , because I needed Feminism-with-a-capital-F, and (in my humble opinion) you gotta go back to Gloria Jean for the real thing. I read and I recommend all of it. But it was that kicked my and recognize how counterproductive (and ironic) it is to victimize oneself for being supposedly too strong for male love, it was Dr. hooks: “We need to highlight the role women play in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a system women and men support equally, even if men receive more rewards from that system. Dismantling and changing patriarchal culture is work that men and women must do together.” Uy. No joke. (Happy ending to this story: I met a man who—on our fifth date, while browsing in a bookstore—saw the book, pulled it down, and bought it. No prompting from me. And he read it. No joke.)
