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Right out the gate just dunking on disgusting short men lol

The Fog man is a very good short story.

The ruffian at the bar is named Bill Bailey? For real?

I am falling behind my goal for the year, but this book remains fascinating! (I just got a new job and I walk to work now and I keep getting looped into social lunches. Not making enough book time.)

I can’t find the book! It belongs to the library! I am stressed.

A great premise, but early on, Plank seems to try to get us laughing *at* some men’s insecure behaviour over the masculinity of our bodies.

I find otherwise progressive writers can be brutal for this, ie: thinking jokes about short, fat, etc. men are harmless as long as the subject’s a named bad guy like Trump.

That’s a misconception, and alienating to readers affected by the subject matter.

Picked this up because a book I was specifically looking for got borrowed between me leaving the office and me arriving at the library. Suffice to say, the qualitative study pursued here seems to absolutely defy a lot of preconceptions we hold as a society. I love when a book/study does that.

Tore through the first quarter of this and am eager to hear more.

Hey, uh, if you’re gonna get a book about the internet, maybe check what year it came out. Gonna keep reading for a while but not confident in a lot of takeaways beyond what we thought was going to happen.

My summer of fiction begins at last. And already, 37 pages in, I fall into the trap of “I should reeeally run an RPG in this universe.”

Partway through and it seems that Johnson’s framing of feminine psychology in this is entirely rooted in the relation to men and marriage. A little more skeptical of this one.