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Women Don't Owe You Pretty: The record-breaking best-selling book every woman needs

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Barrett, Amy (8 December 2020). "28 of the best non-fiction and fiction books we read in 2020" . Retrieved 20 December 2020. They also stated that while they worked with Chidera, they “relentlessly championed the importance of her voice and believed in her work” After discovering that this author lifted and plagiarized the work of Chidera Eggerue (theslumflower), i am taking my review down from a 4 to a 1.

The final chapter of the book really reaffirmed to me how important it is to reflect upon how far you’ve come and to recognise your achievements. I’ve spent a lot of time focusing on what’s coming next, so I don’t celebrate what I’ve achieved, healed from or should feel proud about.’Florence responded to Chidera saying: “You’ve outright denied my entire reality, multiple times in your messages.”

On 19th October 2020 Chidera ended her representation agreement with Diving Bell stating that our values no longer aligned. Nobody likes it when issues are deliberately avoided, like they are some kind of taboo. This is not the message to send out to people.

Chidera shared an email sent to her by her now-former publisher, claiming they dropped her

Since reading Florence’s work, I have learnt to follow her mantra of being the love of my own life, a lesson which is essential for women’s liberation in a society which values us based on our desirability.’ Quite frankly, the only issue I have with this book is that it’s not longer. From start to finish you are taken on a journey that continuously questions societal notions and their effect on you. Personally, I have never felt so connected to a book prior to this, and it really has raised the bar for me. Its tone is a good balance between assertive and reflective. Self-help: Honestly, this felt, most of all, like a self-help book. Meant to help you realise your full potential. Not a bad aim, sure. Just not what I wanted at all from this book. And it was not what I needed either, so it just didn't hit me in any profound way.

For example: Given thinks we should cut people out of our lives who makes a mistake. We're human, we all make mistakes, and anyway, isn't that how we can learn and progress? She speaks in command style writing, too. Florence Given hits on a lot of important issues - yet I feel she never truly delves into the subjects she touches on. She somehow said a lot without saying very much at all? I don't think I'm the intended audience for this book, as I already hold views as radical as the ones Florence expresses here. Therefore, to me, they weren't particularly radical at all and didn't break any fresh ground. Considering I was reading A Room of One's Own by Virgina Woolf concurrently, this book had an uphill battle to impress me as a feminist text. Florence spends far too much time talking about the male gaze. Yes, it's important and is basically the point of feminism. However, Florence is a bisexual woman, like myself, and I was disappointed to find that she doesn’t spare much thought for the female gaze. There was a brief mention of the "queer gaze" but she didn't really talk about what that enails/how exactly it differs from the male gaze. I think this could've been a valuable addition to the book, especially as it's constantly her being like "DON'T TAKE CRUMBS FROM MEN" (a valid notion). In 2018, she launched a petition to cancel Netflix's controversial fat-shaming series 'Insatiable', it gained over 300,000 signatures in a matter of days. The story became global news and she appeared on many news networks across the US and UK, as well as being interviewed for various publications including Huffington Post and Grazia.During our working relationship, we fiercely supported Chidera through good times and the bad and continue to wish her the best. The Slumflower captioned these screenshots: “Remember that Google’s algorithm is designed to show you what your own bias wants to see. So depending on your location, browsing data and internet usage habits, your search results may slightly differ but there is still something to be said in algorithmic bias and white supremacy.

Annotating the screenshots, Chidera said: “For everyone asking why I am only just speaking up now, I already spoke to Floss in June. She just carried on.Aspinall, Georgia (15 December 2020). " 'If You Need A Diversity Reader, You Need To Pass The Mic': The Slumflower Responds To Florence Given's Statement". Grazia . Retrieved 20 December 2020. But as it is, I am not - so I didn't enjoy this one bit. It just felt like an amalgamation of other feminist theories interspersed with 'feminist' self help tips. Nothing new or useful for me, but perhaps that's because I have spent years educating myself in this regard? Maybe, if I knew nothing about feminism, this would have appealed to me more? But as it is, that was not the case. At the stage I’m at in life it wasn’t particularly anything new, but reaffirming and empowering to read all the same. 16-18 year old me really needed it though and I’d recommend it to anyone.’

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