Avoid this book. I agree with one of the reviews of this book. This is clearly a work of a person with an agenda, and it feels distorted and out of proportion.
Many advertisements knowingly make fun of social norms and values. In addition, by bringing them into focus like this, they can serve as an example of what not to do/be. I grew up with distorted media, but you have to realize that things don’t define us. We have to define ourselves in life, and constantly question ourselves as new information comes to light.
This author is clearly an educated and passionate person about the topic. However her own issues with alcohol which she shares makes this less of an indictment of the industry, and more of an expose of her own life. It would have been incredibly powerful if she had therapy and then wrote this book. Right now, its hard to separate the irony and lack of consciousness of her own kind of “selling”. Equality is a given by rational people. However you don’t achieve that with the methods she used in this book.
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