Caitlin Moran, white feminism and unacknowledged privilege.
Right, I am probably just adding fuel to the fire here, given my past encounters with Caitlin Moran, her book and the utterly desperate and downright baffling level of defensiveness my negative review of her book caused, but given her recent outburst of privilege and ignorance, I feel the need to say something.
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Caitlin Moran isn't as popular over here as she is over there and frankly, that sounds like a good thing.
Also, I may be the only person on Earth who has a problem with this, but I have SUCH a problem with stuff about full-grown women using girls in the title. 2 Broke Girls, Girls, etc. They're adults in the eyes of the law, so don't reduce them to silly little kids by saying girls.
BUT YES, ABSOLUTELY, BASICALLY YES TO ALL OF THIS. I've always grown up in a multicultural environment--more than 100 languages are spoken among the students in my K-12 school district, my college graduates more black graduates than many HBCUs, my college has the kind of diversity where the same minority student doesn't have to be pictured twice on the pamphlets--so I am always just noticing lack of diversity in media. Sometimes I notice it aloud, sometimes I don't, but it doesn't reflect how America looks, simple as that. (Or the UK, for that matter.) Basically, you're completely right.
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