“Comedian, star of the Netflix special Everything’s Fine, and Trump lip-syncing sensation Sarah Cooper illustrates how women can achieve their dreams, succeed in their careers, and become leaders, all without harming the fragile male ego.”
Basically, this is a tongue-in-cheek “advice” book that tells women to be quiet, put up with the patriarchy, and hide any kind of competency in order to accommodate inferior men. The advice is purposefully over the top, and ridiculous, but unfortunately still pretty relevant today.
Chapters like, “Authenticity – How to Bring Your True Self to Work and Then Hide It” and “Harassment-How to be Harassed Without Hurting His Career” left me more disgruntled and frustrated than amused.
Don’t get me wrong – it is funny. But with what’s happening in the world these days, I found it hard to laugh. This is coming from someone who likes their humour as black as my heart.
I really wanted to like this. I’m a woman suffering a particularly dim view of men as a whole these days (#notallmen). But this was just not for me. Each chapter just had me saying, “hah!” and then getting a little more depressed.
I do think this book would probably be better served cut up into bits, like SNL skits or TikToks. In audiobook form (or presumably a physical book format), it didn’t work for me. After the first chapter or two, it became a real slog.
Your mileage may vary! 🙂
