By the 80% mark I began to skim, which is never good. Yes, I get frustrated by sexism and ignorance when it comes to gender dysphoria in today's culture - but at times the pettiness and whining was over the top. At times their manner of speaking grated my nerves. However, the parents do tend to be a little overly snarky, a little condescending.
As well, I liked that it's never clear at any one time whether the mom or dad is the one tweeting or blogging - that way there is no chance for gender bias, only total consideration for what ideas are being explored. It made me reconsider my notions of gender, for sure the parents make several great points here. Basically, this one is a series of snapshots of parents' journey to becoming more aware, progressive, feminist parents. Their children are young the tweets and posts are about observations the kids (and parents) make about gender and how it enforces their worldview. This is a nonfiction volume comprised of live tweets and blog posts created by two parents of two children - a son and daughter. It's one I find endlessly fascinating, so when I saw this book up for request on Netgalley, I jumped on it. Thanks to recent progress in gender studies, there seems to be more books published on this topic than ever before. Gender - gender dysphoria, specifically - is something that has recently started fascinating me and I've adjusted my reading accordingly.
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