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Ken Not Included: A Survival Guide for the Plastic Age
📺 KEN NOT INCLUDED
Part satire. Part self-help. Part social post-mortem.
Ken Not Included is a sharp, genre-bending cocktail of commentary, comedy, and cringe-worthy memoir—written for the modern woman who’s breaking the mold before it breaks her.
💄 It’s Cosmopolitan if they actually told the truth.
👠 Carrie Bradshaw with a tinfoil hat.
👩💻 A cultural roast wrapped not wrapped in plastic.
This book unpacks how women have been manufactured like Barbie dolls—shaped by fairy tales, tampon ads, pop stars, body image standards, and boardroom-approved “empowerment.” Author and podcast host Jennifer Carmody (aka JK ULTRA) pulls no punches as she dissects the programming and dares readers to change the channel.
Inside the Book — A Few 🎬 “Commercial Break” & “Skip This Ad in 3…2…”
How consumerism rebranded feminism and sold it back to us.
👑 “Prince Charming Is a Creep” & “Unhappily Ever After”
Deconstructing romance myths and rewriting the fairytale.
🎤 “The Teen Dream” & “Lolita & The Prince”
When pop culture becomes propaganda—and teen girl pay the price.
🏢 “Sugar, Spice & Market Price” & “Manning Up”
Gender roles, career traps, and the cost of corporate equality.
💋 “Mascara and Machine Guns” & "Battle of the Sexes"
The gender games we never signed up for.
📝 “Write Your Own Ever After” & Assembly (of self) Required"
The plot twist where you take the pen.
Part satire. Part self-help. Part social post-mortem.
Ken Not Included is a sharp, genre-bending cocktail of commentary, comedy, and cringe-worthy memoir—written for the modern woman who’s breaking the mold before it breaks her.
💄 It’s Cosmopolitan if they actually told the truth.
👠 Carrie Bradshaw with a tinfoil hat.
👩💻 A cultural roast wrapped not wrapped in plastic.
This book unpacks how women have been manufactured like Barbie dolls—shaped by fairy tales, tampon ads, pop stars, body image standards, and boardroom-approved “empowerment.” Author and podcast host Jennifer Carmody (aka JK ULTRA) pulls no punches as she dissects the programming and dares readers to change the channel.
Inside the Book — A Few 🎬 “Commercial Break” & “Skip This Ad in 3…2…”
How consumerism rebranded feminism and sold it back to us.
👑 “Prince Charming Is a Creep” & “Unhappily Ever After”
Deconstructing romance myths and rewriting the fairytale.
🎤 “The Teen Dream” & “Lolita & The Prince”
When pop culture becomes propaganda—and teen girl pay the price.
🏢 “Sugar, Spice & Market Price” & “Manning Up”
Gender roles, career traps, and the cost of corporate equality.
💋 “Mascara and Machine Guns” & "Battle of the Sexes"
The gender games we never signed up for.
📝 “Write Your Own Ever After” & Assembly (of self) Required"
The plot twist where you take the pen.
280 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 26, 2025
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July 21, 2025
I learned a lot from this book. Programming is deeply sewn into the capitalistic society we have built. It’s everywhere!
Bare with me as I never write reviews. I am adding a spoiler while I point to some of my favorite things in this book.
*It touched on how some of women’s biggest criticisms come from men’s failures. “Daddy issues” being an example. Something I hadn’t thought of and was sort of an “ah ha” moment for me.
*How teen girls are the future and they need us to guide them instead of criticize them. Society today, wow, does it criticize and so harshly! TEEN girls! Children! (And our boys too!)
*That men are taught to protect by conquering, while women are taught to protect with self sacrifice.
*Page 217. “We owe it to ourselves not just to adapt to society but to redefine it”. “Real change starts from the inside out”.
This 100x’s this!
*And lastly when she said in her last chapter that, “nothing happens on the timeline we envision but everything happens right on time”.
I’m thankful for this book! The funny stories, as well as the sad, tragic ones. As a daddy’s girl, I get really upset reading about fathers who aren’t fathers at all. How can there be such terrible dads! I felt her sadness, and anger on these pages and I sympathize, but I’m also so proud. She’s grown so much and used her healing to help others learn and heal too.
Thank you JK Ultra for sharing part of your story with us!
Bare with me as I never write reviews. I am adding a spoiler while I point to some of my favorite things in this book.
*It touched on how some of women’s biggest criticisms come from men’s failures. “Daddy issues” being an example. Something I hadn’t thought of and was sort of an “ah ha” moment for me.
*How teen girls are the future and they need us to guide them instead of criticize them. Society today, wow, does it criticize and so harshly! TEEN girls! Children! (And our boys too!)
*That men are taught to protect by conquering, while women are taught to protect with self sacrifice.
*Page 217. “We owe it to ourselves not just to adapt to society but to redefine it”. “Real change starts from the inside out”.
This 100x’s this!
*And lastly when she said in her last chapter that, “nothing happens on the timeline we envision but everything happens right on time”.
I’m thankful for this book! The funny stories, as well as the sad, tragic ones. As a daddy’s girl, I get really upset reading about fathers who aren’t fathers at all. How can there be such terrible dads! I felt her sadness, and anger on these pages and I sympathize, but I’m also so proud. She’s grown so much and used her healing to help others learn and heal too.
Thank you JK Ultra for sharing part of your story with us!
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July 18, 2025
I absolutely loved this book. Part memoir, part social de programming, part survival guide. I really loved Jennifer’s voice in the book. I have seen some of her YouTube videos but now I will definitely start tuning in more regularly. I almost cried at one of the short chapters at the end where you kind of caught us up on your journey over the years writing your story. Bravo!!
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