Witches Are Coming

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Lindy West, the author of bestselling feminist memoir Shrill performs a cutting feminist reading of late-20th-century pop culture in her new book The Witches are Coming. With her characteristically surgical insight, she argues the often misogynistic, narcissistic, privilege promoting messages we have been haplessly absorbing for years while watching television, films and surfing the web have helped form ideologies of discontent, hostility and political instability. We all need to wake up to 'poli-tainment' so we can start demanding more. Her witty and thought-provoking arguments take in iconic figures, concepts, and moments in current and past pop culture, such as:Why Are Hobbits White: why is it that when white people write their "fantasies, " everyone in them (or, at least, the good guys) happens to be white?Was Adam Sandler Ever Funny? Adam Sandler is the beneficiary of millennia of patriarchy. He is the epitome of average white men failing upward. Every Abortion Ever: the way abortion has been portrayed in popular media: from not at all, to a shameful secret, to the dangerous punishment for a fallen woman.A "Fun" History of Rape: why is the concept of female autonomy so alien and objectionable? (Revenge of the Nerds, Porky's, Weird Science, Sixteen Candles.)