Review: An outstanding look at female relationships
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 5, 2013
I have never identified more with a writer than I have with Alana Munro. Like her, I've never had many supportive, nurturing friendships with women, but I've certainly experienced a lot of the ugliness she talks about in the book, as well as run into the denial that so many women have about the horrid behavior our gender is capable of. Mom said it was just me, that I was being negative, or too harsh, or judgmental. The truth is that it was never "just me".Women are often unmitigated witches, and Alana Munro takes a courageous stand in pointing it out. From the jealousy and mind games to viewing every other female as competition (and instantly branding her the vilest of names if she's thinner, prettier, or younger), women are their own harshest critics, the first ones to step up to be their sister's keeper. The feminists can gripe all day long about the patriarchy keeping us down, but at the end of the day it's not a man who calls mall security on the pretty eighteen year old in the super short skirt, or who encourages you to wear the pants that make your butt look considerably larger than her own.This isn't a women bashing book, by any means, but it is a frank and truthful look at the relationships women often have with one another. Learning to recognize the behaviors of women who don't have our best interests at heart will help us to develop healthy, long lasting relationships with the ones that do.