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Metro-Goldwin-Myra. First time in reading this that I have zero context what she’s talking about. I sort of grabbed on something near the end when Long Chu pinpoints the want Myra represents, since want is a recurring thing in her writing. I’ll probs read this book’s wiki and try again.

No One Wants It. This is the way I wanted to write about Sarge Lacuesta

Psycho Analysis. Today I found out Bret Easton Ellis is a garden variety Trump-supporter, “centrist” right-winger. And that he sympathizes with Patrick Bateman. Go figure.

China Brain. That was the most adventurous so far. Uhhhh I’m a psych grad so this is 100% supposed to be in my wheelhouse but instead I’m just awed by how far the “experimental” treatment that white psych professionals are allowed can go

Pink. Complicated tryst through the idea of womanhood, transness and feminism. The physical descriptions of the surgery made me feel things. Putting this out in 2019 is truly bold

Bad TV. Long Chu implicitly pushes back on the idea that #Metoo was itself a wave of feminism, by casting it instead as a performance of justice, based on how Hollywood centric it was and how publicly it happened. I didnt like it as a reading experience but it unexpectedly helped me reconcile my own conflicted feelings about #MeToo as a blip of a political moment

On Liking Women. Prescient, challenging, and confrontational. I liked it

Cunt. I’m really impressed with her bravery because I’m pretty sure criticizing Maggie Nelson this hard is inviting the book-world equivalent of Swiftie ire