Myrtle’s Reviews > Women Don't Owe You Pretty > Status Update

“If we can learn to view other women as opportunities for inspiration and empowerment in our own lives and realise that there is enough room for all of us to be happy.”

It’s a good point that sometimes we dislike other women because they are making choices that we ourselves are too afraid to me

I think it is true that in relishing in other people’s flaws we hope to minimise our own or to avoid dealing with our insecurities

When you settle for crumbs it sends a message to that person that that’s all you think you deserve. Interesting.

She finally put the heat on! “Single doesn’t mean waiting for someone”

We’ve hit some interesting concepts “most of the time the thing we are insecure about aren’t about our dislike toward them but what we think others will think when they see us”

Amazing concepts have been discussed about desirability politics and how rejecting beauty standards is only a privileged afforded to a specific few

Some key takeaways:

- guilt is an inactive emotion, you need to use it for something!
- access to information is a class privilege!
- I am really enjoying the illustrations in the book!

But she’s eating with how much space take up on public transport! I was sitting by myself and there were a bunch of empty seats and this man chooses to sit next to me and MANSPREAD! When he moved I cheered!

Also hating chick-flics PERSONALLY isn’t a sign of feminism, I see where she is coming from, but I think the 2025/2026 reclaim of women-targeted media might flag her point here