Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess
by Susan Jane Gilman
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Author: Susan Jane GilmanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-02-01
ISBN: 0446675776
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Book Reviews of Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess
Book Review: Worthless Outside of Satire.
Summary: 1 Stars
Susan Jane Gilman, the author of Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a Smart Mouth Goddess, manages to accomplish two very unique things in these 23 chapters. First, her insight about how women should live their lives is an unintentional best practice guide for how to "lose friends and alienate people." Second, the recommendations made are so glaringly unsubstantiated by fact that they border on being sinister so it will ensure readers of martyrdom as the only place it will lead them is into the abyss.
The book is actually radical feminist theory thinly disguised as self-help. In terms of relationships, one would be hard-pressed to dream up more counter-productive advice than Gilman's. Rather comically, she admits to not really understanding men at all which makes the rest of the work all-the-more tragic. Gilman claims that women really don't have to worry about being beautiful because it is not very important to men. Who knew? Furthermore, it seems that what we really want are girls we can feel comfortable with who allow us to pass gas around them. We also aren't concerned about a woman's age which glaringly clashes with the whole of human experience. Did you happen to know that "women who eat are sexier"? I didn't either, but Gilman jumps to the conclusion due to our not liking anorexics. Well, no logical leaps there. In the final analysis, women just shouldn't worry about male opinion because "men will f*** anything." Is this true? Nope. That doesn't matter though because stereotyping and lying are perfectly justified when one's goal is to make women feel good about themselves. Gilman also confuses the word nymphomaniac as being applicable to both men and women, but this could simply be due to the writing programs at Brown and Michigan being above such distinctions.
How should a woman get ahead in life? Interpersonally, they'd be wise to "Really b*tch," and refuse to calm down once they become angered. It seems that virtue and niceness are overrated while "PMS is a Power Tool." There really is a great deal here that is unintentionally hilarious. This self-proclaimed queen informs us, without a hint of irony, of a man's proposal to her consisting of: "`I can support you while you write your feminist discourse.'" Is she appalled by her suitor's patriarchal attitude? Did she scream, "Never! I'll work until I'm dead!" Hardly, she's hot for the deal because a chump is a chump, but what queered it was that the fellow hadn't known her for long enough. On aggregate, the book isn't as offensive as it is pathetic. Its narration is a testament to the type of ignoramuses produced by today's politicized universities. Everything your eyes and ears document as reality is wrong because theory and dogma offer up a more soothing and empowering interpretation.
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Irreverent, provocative, hip - this guide to power and attitude offers women an intelligent alternative to the negative messages we hear every day from magazines, TV and relatives. Gilman serves up advice on everything from sex to politics.Self-Help Books
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