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Why is this book even rated as nonfiction?

Because it's what she thinks? Are our thoughts now marketed as truth?

Is there no genre for unmitigated opinion?

I don't know anything about him, he made facebook. The end. I have no judgments about his morality nor his personality because I don't know anything about them.

When did that admittance of ignorance become immoral? That the moral thing to do is to accuse people about whom you know nothing of every character flaw you can come up with?

I really don't like this book.

How is it that someone can read this many books and still be absolutely so certain in themselves?

How can she be so content with just calling people names?

Has she ever met zuckerberg? No. Then how can she be content with calling him 'personality-less'? How does she know? She doesn't. She just wants to demean him.

I had to go up to 1.5 speed, I just want to get this over as soon as possible. ...I may move up to 2x...

But, then I saw that the table of contents misspelled the title of this chapter and suddenly my amusement knows no bounds.

It wasn't just me that hates this book. I think the editors did too!!!!

"Houstonians gravitate to megachurches because by some metrics it makes them feel like they are in a small town."

....

I am flabbergasted by that statement.

I...don't think she's ever lived in a small town....

Because megachurches aren't anything like a small town.

Again. Go read a book written by an Asian in a primarily Asian culture. It's amazing. Things are completely switched! It's almost as if the majority culture rules who shows up in art! Wow. Mind blown.

Don't conflate your own lack of expanding your horizons with the belief that those horizons do not exist.

Let me give you the entire canon of Manga! It's amazing. You won't find ANY white characters! Who would have thought?!?!!? Same for Manhwa! Wow.

Or a Chinese cultivation novel. Or a Chinese classic a la 3 kingdoms. Or a Japanese classic like Genji Monogatari. Or you could explode your mind and read Yakumo Koizumi, an Irish Greek guy who wrote Japanese horror stories so authentic he dominates the genre to this day.

This woman frustrates me to no end.

'Most characters are white and straight.'

No duh. Most people are straight. 99.999999% of them. Imagine. What is most statistically likely will also be represented in art. Amazing.

And, again, no duh. You speak English. Only English. Why are you surprised that most of the characters represent phenotypes of people who speak English?

You don't like it? Go learn another language!

...relationships. There are economic difficulties, there are class difficulties, there are differences in education that have to be negotiated. Philosophies clash. How else am I supposed to describe that, except as existential?

....I think I need to take another break from this book.