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Saying the chindo business network rivaled that of the CIA is in pretty bad taste since the CIA historically orchestrated to mass murder them. But also as passionate as the feminist critique of this book is, it's lacking religious and a certain racial context. Yes the misogyny is specific to chindo culture, but the writer monolithically portrays them as a rich class and not an ethnic minority.

Oh NOW you want to talk about smartphones and apps becoming popular around 2008. What happened to the teens and young women texting in the 90s?

Grandma please stop talking about your sex life to a minor and telling her she's prude for being grossed out by it. But also can we not have this joke EVERY SINGLE TIME something sexual happens?

Followed immediately by Nainai chindo-splaining to her chindo granddaughter about how single mothers are bad in chindo culture.

THIS IS THE ONE TIME SO FAR, the narration exposits indonesian culture while acknowledging that canonically Izzy knows this already. By saying "you know as well as I do, Izzy" some stuff about marriage not being between two people but between two families and clans.

"Never before had I felt so betrayed, not even when Ellery told me she was leaving for London" Is "this woman who hung out with a minor didn't tell me, the minor, every college she signed up for" really comparable to your parents defending spousal abuse and victim blaming your sister who was physically assaulted?

"even in the western media, there is so much toxic bullshit" way to ruin a really strong scene with the juvenile language again. Misogyny isn't a media problem, it's a systemic and cultural one uuuggh you've demonstrated that adequately and now you're spoon feeding feminism 101 at me

Nainai teasing her 16 year old minor chindo raised granddaughter for not wanting to hear about her grandma fucking her grandad by calling her a "prude" could perhaps metatextually be read as foreshadowing that the grooming did not stop with James but continued with Ellery. But I know it's just treated as her being quirky progressively horny! So appropriate!

See, if this went through more considerate edits I wouldn't have to read the phrase "At the end of the day," every 5 minutes

See, if this went through more considerate edits I wouldn't have to read the phrase "At the end of the day," every 5 minutes