Nasty Woman Reads discussion

Though it's been a while since this bookclub was reading this, I wanted a thread to give everyone the opportunity to discuss this book.

This book was undoubtedly tough to read for me, if only because the material presented was difficult to digest. Certain facts were ones that I had already known (like how the number one cause of death for pregnant women is being murdered by their partner); but reading statement after statement, example after example, made it hard for me to get through it. I kept having a visceral reaction, and would have to stop reading to calm myself down.

I think this book did a great job of pointing out all of these different statements and facts, which enabled Solnit to build this case that women do not experience full equality as men do. I did also notice that even in this book, Solnit wrote that "not all men" consolation several times.

What were your thoughts / reactions to this book?

I also noticed her repeated clarification that she didn't mean "all men," and that "obviously men can be raped/abused/murdered by women too." I actually lost count of how many times she says it in the first essay.

What I really had the strongest reaction to was her essay about the Isla Vista shooting, because I remember following the news on it the day it happened, and reading the resulting #YesAllWomen stories on Twitter. And, obviously, because I have my own #YesAllWomen stories.