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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well. I am glad I read the book (listened to the audiobook with all its extras, actually—including interviews with people mentioned in the book) because this forum made it seem like a gross disaster.

I found it measured and sincere. Funny at times and bittersweet. You don’t have to like her or agree with her deconstruction to recognize it as a well written book that is going to speak to a LOT of us—especially if you did grow up in a youth group in the 90s as a girl. Maybe some of you did not.[/quote]

I don't think anyone has made the book out to be a "gross disaster." If anything most of the comments are on the positive side with a couple of mentions of her sounding relatable and the major negative being how the book jumps all over the place instead of following a timeline.

I don't think I'd go so far as to say Jen is a "gross disaster" either. I think she's fake and annoying but I can't really point to an influencer that isn't fake, at least to some degree.

I did grow up in purity culture. It was part of the personality of the church I went to and although my parents were Bible believing fundies, they weren't as zealous in their views about those kinds of things at home. They'd sit and nod about how women should wear dresses and not trousers when the pastor thundered from the pulpit but I wore jeans and shorts outside of church. I had one bathing suit for church camp and another for swimming outside of church activities. I chose to approach modesty differently as an adult and with my daughter and I'm happy to see women advance as they have but fifty-something year old me isn't crying about the patriarchy and how demeaning it felt to be told to wear a shirt over my granny one piece when the boys were bare chested.

It's the "this is my marketing schtick" approach that I find distasteful and honestly, she's just not believable with this new relationship'

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