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I'm legitimately surprised that, to the best of my knowledge, no one made a top-level post in any of the CWR threads about Lindy West's latest memoir, Adult Braces. For the last few weeks it's all that certain corners of the internet have been able to talk about.
I think I heard Louise Perry talking about it on her podcast, but that was the first I'd heard of Lindy West, and it wasn't clear why people care, or what West is known for. Surely she can't be known simply for being fat and abrasive?
She was a very prominent journalist when she wrote for Jezebel in its heyday. My understanding is that a previous memoir she wrote was adapted into a TV series, although I haven't heard of either before the recent kerfuffle.
Yeah, when I looked her up just now, an article that came up mentioned the TV show, which I had never heard of. Her website has her most recent articles in famous places like The New York Times and The Guardian, which look dreary.
What are the certain internet corners saying?
There's basically lot of rubbernecking and popcorn-eating over the fact that her husband convinced her to go poly so he'd be free to sleep with other women, and even got her to accept another woman moving in with them, and she claims that she's totally fallen in love with this other woman herself, but the way she writes about it in her memoir makes it sound like she really is quite unhappy with the situation but believes those feelings are wrong and un-woke so she's constantly trying to convince herself she likes it.
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