Classy: Exceptional Advice For The Extremely Modern Lady (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Even one star seems generous.TRUST NO MAN, especially a man who writes an entire book telling women how they should act and dress.This book is LOADED with problems. One of the biggest ones is Blasberg's continuous use of terms like "tramp," "skank," and "slut." Like, throughout the whole book. According to him, women are either ladies, or tramps/whatever derogatory term he's in the mood for. All of this is awful and maddening enough, and then I get over 100 pages into it, and there is a section about intelligent insults or some shit. In the FIRST paragraph, he says he hates hearing women call other women "bitches" and "sluts" during arguments, and that they should get a thesaurus. He THEN proceeds to call above-mentioned women "tramps." In this same section, he writes that women calling other women "bitches" and "sluts" as terms of endearment towards other women gives men permission to call them that. Which, okay, I could get behind this, if not for the fact that THE GUY WRITING THIS HAS BEEN USING DEROGATORY TERMS TOWARDS WOMEN THE ENTIRE BOOK. I think Blasberg needs more than a thesaurus, he needs a few courses in Women's studies, and maybe a good beating while we're at it.I was forcing myself to finish this book just so I could get it off my TBR shelf, but it made me so irate at the following part that I almost couldn't keep going (which is saying a lot, considering how much I hated it up till here):"It's probably just a good idea to avoid hooking up when you're trashed. (This might be hard. There's something about drunken girls that just says "Make out with me." Unfortunately, it's a language in which middle-aged truckers named Jimbo seem to be most fluent.) Being drunk is never an excuse for bad behavior."Did you notice that entirely-not-subtle implication that it is the woman's fault if she is taken advantage of while under the influence? Yeah, Blasberg REALLY stepped up his dickishness there.Besides all the problematic stuff, Blasberg reaaaaally loves name-dropping. All the space he didn't spend calling women derogatory names he spent bragging about how fabulous his life is and all the famous people he knows and the fancy parties he has been to. Basically, Derek Blasberg is no better than the scum I wipe off the bottom of my shoe. In fact, I like the scum I wipe off the bottom of my shoe a lot better than Derek Blasberg.Don't read this book, please. (And apparently there's a follow-up book, which, beyond not being able to fathom how this book got published, I CANNOT fathom how someone decided it would be a good idea to publish a second book by this ass) A fun, silly, tongue-in-cheek primer on being "classy" from fashion editor Derek Blasberg. As for what prompted him to write a book like this, he says it best in his epilogue: "Too often the girls I see put on society's pedestal - worshipped and photographed and given TV shows - are standing up there for the wrong reasons. (They're probably slouching up there with their girlie parts hanging out, unable to differentiate between Austria and Australia, but that's not my point.) Sloppy sluts, sex tapes, bad table manners - it's terrifying. I grew scared that if girls weren't instructed in at least a tiny bit of decorum, the skanks would only continue to grow in number."
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