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Her observations about gender and her own feelings about herself are interesting. But there’s so much here that is sad and horrible to read- knowingly soliciting sex from married people, purchasing services from a young Filipino boy, musing that “art has looser morals than regular life” to justify the inappropriateness of taking pictures of unknowing subjects.

I’m blown away by Meredith’s hypocrisy. She laments throughout the book how assumptions are made about her based on looks that both benefit and hurt her, but she also literally states she is disgusted by her mother’s lack of beauty and judges prospective sexual partners and even friends with single glances.