Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death Audiobook (Free)

Through the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host from the ‘Throwing Shade’ podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary perfect for fans of Lindy West and Roxane Gay.

Since women earned the proper to vote just a little under one hundred years ago, our progress was not the Olympic sprint toward gender equality initial wave feminists wished for, but more of a sluggish, elderly shopping mall walk (with regular stops to Cinnabon) within the 500 million about Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Information to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Loss of life hurdles we still encounter. Some of these hurdles are obvious-unequal pay out, under-representation in federal government, reproductive restrictions, insufficient floor-length mirrors in hotel rooms. But a lot of them are harder to identify. They’re the white noise of oppression that we’ve accepted as female business as typical, as well as the patriarchy wants to keep it that method.

Erin Gibson includes a singular goal-to create a utopian future where females are recognized as humans. In FEMINASTY-titled after her nickname over the hit podcast ‘Throwing Shade’-she offers written a assortment of make-you-laugh-until-you-cry essays that expose the concealed rules that make life as a woman unnecessarily hard and deconstructs them in ways that’s striking, provocative and hilarious.

Whether it’s shaming women for having their intervals, allowing them into STEM fields but never treating them like they truly belong, or dictating strict rules for the way they should clothe themselves in every situation, Erin breaks down the organized chaos of old fashioned sexism, intentional and in any other case, that systemically keeps women down.