No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️

I wanted to end up liking this book so bad. At the beginning it seemed genuinely funny and observant, an Internet Novel™ with actual commentary on the Internet and how it has been used both as a form of community for marginalzied people and a weapon by fascists. Instead, it sometimes fell into the same fallacies about wokeness we see from conservatives (that is, it says “look at these liberals being shallowly woke the answer is to be not woke” rather than “look at these liberals being shallowly woke the answer is to understand the material conditions”), rather grossly implied that both having kids and dealing with disabled folks should be the inspiration to be a better person, and ultimately was just part of the Gawkerification of cultural criticism. For a book that wants to criticize the Ironic Despair Industrial Complex, it sure falls into it.