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I was thinking the exact same thing. What woman would refer to other women as females. Creepy. Whenever I hear that, my mind automatically includes females of all species.
"She could play with a MAN'S senses as well as any FEMALE." That line right there sums up the "female" thing so well. If the author had said "male's senses...any female" at least it would show consistency, but for some reason the man gets to be called a man but the woman is referred to as a female. Telling
Yeah that's literally it, to paraphrase. Men are thought of as human beings while women are female, whenever a woman acts like a human being she is considered to be imitating the man.
There's also a hint of terfism here. As I trans man I often find terfs, while being in a constant state of rage against trans women, actually forget trans men exist unless one is standing right in front of them,waving his hands franticly while screeming in their faces.
Readers: "Tell us you've never spoken with a feminist or person of colour without telling us you've never spoken with a feminist or person of colour" Liberty Adams:
Probably the most apt comparison I can make is Chick Tracts only replace God or Jesus with Trump (literally I mean, not just figuratively like so many conservative Christians do without even realizing it)
Liberty Adams is obviously a man. No photo except clip art? Writing about his bicep like bad authors write about women’s bouncing bosom? Authors plaster their photos everywhere and there are lots of Trump supporters so she has a base she could sell her book to (if they could read). Why hide?
A far lesser literary crime but to add onto that, "tell us you know nothing about how hair dye works without telling us you know nothing about how hair dye works" Seriously the amount of work it took me to just try out hair dyeing there is no way anyone in their right mind is changing their hair colour everyday without it being enormously enjoyable to them. Has Liberty never heard of wigs??
Hair crayons and cheap hair dyes do come out visibly with one wash. But we are talking about the ones that start to fade like 2-3 hours after application and will stain literally anything they touch. Washibility also depends on how much coats did you put on if you use spray, what is your natural hair colour and texture, what kind of shampoo you use and maybe even the water temperature. Also the brand.
@@psycher7 Can confirm. 13 year old me wrote some truly cringey fic about my favorite ship...but I'd be pretty confident putting it up against this crap!
The use of "female" (along with everything else) leads me to believe that Liberty Adams is actually a conservative man. Like A LOT of the stuff does not feel like something a feeemale author would write, no matter how delusional. Edit: stuff like how the male hero feels more like a writer self insert, and how the protagonist apparently switches her hair color EVERY day, like even with wash-out color that would be soooo time consuming. How she goes back and begs the hero to date her, which is such a typical incel revenge fantasy
When we were picking a name for the women's resource group at work I was amazed (and horrified) how many women submitted names with "female" in them - sometimes to make a fun-sounding acronym, but sometimes because they thought it was a good way to talk about a group of women.
@@margotmolander5083 I mean I’m a raging feminist, but if I got the chance to pick a group name, I would definitely pitch “Female Fight Force” and be a proud member.
There is absolutely no way in hell that ‘Liberty Adams’ is anything but a conservative guy. A lot of the language choices don’t feel like ones that women would make, even if they’re really conservative.
@@garibaldibritann1240 Both of those books are the most honest depictions of American conservatism as it actually exists that have ever existed. The worst thing you can do to conservatism is describe it as it actually is in the real world as opposed to how conservatives need it to be depicted in order for them to look good.
Dehumanizing women by repeatedly referring to them simply as "female" is what you expect from caricature characters like the Ferengi, not adult humans talking about one another. The rest of the book sounds awful too.
I have met an odd amount of people out in real life lately who refer to me as "female." Both men and women. Like in the context of saying, "You, as a female, must have experienced [x] thing," or "Could you give a female perspective on this," or "Men don't understand what us females deal with." One lady unironically called me a "fellow female," and I thought she was referencing the "fellow kids" meme and laughed, and she deadass stared at me with a "what's so funny." :/
@Artemis Rose - I can't help but read sentences that casually use the word "female" in a Ferengi-inspired tone of voice. I think that perfectly illustrates the sort of mindset underpinning it whether it's conscious or not.
I would like it noted that Edward Cullen also was just “following” Bella around in case she “needed protecting/saving.” Cool motive. Still stalking there, Liberty,
I would like to provide an extremely tepid defense of Edward: he could read the minds of everyone who had negative intent toward Bella, there were usually other vampires threatening Bella, the wolfboys were known to wolf out and randomly maul people when pissed off, and Bella's only character trait is that she is so clumsy she could trip and fall face-first into a sack of knives. So his paranoia wasn't completely unfounded. (still don't stalk people, stalking bad)
@@GoddoDoggo This is true too though. But, then again, that wasn't his real motive for following her either...those were really just all the excuses he dug up in order to make himself feel better about doing it even when he knew he shouldn't.👀😅😅🤦♀️
This is one of the only times I feel like I can’t use the phrase “Still a better love story than Twilight.” There is no way I could make it through a mess like this.
I mean, twilight isn't as problematic with not understanding terms. And stays out of political stuff (except the native american tribe in the book that it both brought attention to and provided some serious misrepresentstion about it). But mostly the love story in Twilight is better only because it's BLAND with two boring blandass leads. These ones just sound like stupid and damaging leads.
Twilight is a bearably twee Hallmark movie compared to this. Then again, given that Myers is a semi-competent wordsmith and E.L. James needs to be beaten with a guide to basic grammar (among other things) and I don't even know how to categorize this "author", Twilight is a freaking Pulitzer contender compared to either.
“ I as a black man....” cracked me up. That is clearly how we as black people start all our sentences. This book clearly shows how many people see those opposed to their views as one dimensional characters. I also can't get over the tattoo thing. It shows how clueless they are. I guess now one should tell them in Victorian England upper class aristocracy women would sometimes get small hidden tattoos.
When i see "man" and "female" in the same space, it feels like man/woman is socially based, and about the person, whereas male/female is anatomical/biological. It gives me the sense that the women in the space are being seen as another species or only defined by their anatomy, while the men are people participating in society and engaging with others
I don't, but sure, you do you. ... However, it is jarring to see man and female used together, or male and woman, mostly because I'm used to reading "male and female" and "men and women".
@@js66613 It is jarring. That it's man... but then... female. I genuinely wouldn't have a problem with my gender be referred to as "females", if people did the same for men and said "males". Maybe they do? But I honestly never see it as commonly as "females". That's why I don't feel odd when people say "males and females", or men and women, like you said. All over social media though, i see "man"... but for me, its "females". Even though u might not get the exact implication as Shira does, you've gotta admit that there's a difference in tone/intent.
@@user-oy5hb5nq5h About the only people who refer to men as "males" are radfems trying to prove that men are, in fact, basically another species from women...or cops describing a suspect. It's dehumanizing all the way down. Edit: Oh, and of course, aLpHa MaLeS trying to slot men into the omegaverse to dOmInAte the other males and females
Right? It very much feels that way. No one I know but asholes and vets regularly use the word "Female" like that. A dog is male or female, my friends are dudes and dudettes. My hamster is female, my co-worker is a women. It just feels dehumanizing
Funny you should reference 50 Shades, because this has got to be the first book since that franchise to earn the prestigious, highly-coveted "Genuinely Not a Better Love Story Than Twilight" award.
"Women of all [...] economic levels" - glad this was mentioned, since it's always 100% clear how much your income is simply based on what you look like!
id suggest that theyre all wearing little name tags that just have their annual income written on there so you know their economic level, but that seems too similar to pronoun pins for the author to write without having a fit
I'm glad other people commented on this too lol, like even if we take away all of the horrible ideas Liberty Adams spouts in the book, it's still objectively trash writing.
Re: "Females" and "Blacks"... Turning an adjective into a noun and then using it to refer to a group of people just feels derogatory. It reduces whole individuals into just one trait.
Precisely! Even with like less discriminates due to reasons groups such as many white people you really shouldn't pair down the entire demographic as 'the whites'. Not cool to reduce! People like to do that, simplify concepts for an easier understanding, and a lot of the time it's unconscious but hoo boy when it is on purpose you can _feel_ it in your bones.
question, how does woman not do the same, or technician, or american or christian? they are all terms that point out one specific trait expecting you to be aware, that that does not mean, you do not have any others. Not arguing we should use the words that upset people, I just do not get the logic behind the complaint
What are you talking about? An adjective doubling as a noun for people described by that adjective is _incredibly_ common in English. We can talk about "Muslim people", or just "Muslims". We can talk about "Italian people", or just "Italians". We can talk about "Asian people", or just "Asians". We can talk about "adolescent people", or just "adolescents". We can talk about "vegetarian people" or just "vegetarians". No one who hears someone described as "an Australian" is thinking "gee, I guess that person must not have any attributes other than Australian-ness".
@@NulonoIt's about associations. women are called females almost exclusively in negative and degrading contexts. You wouldn't call a female horse a woman, right? Cause it's a mare. Mare both specifies the sex AND the species of said organism. You wouldn't call a male chicken a man, as that's a rooster. Only the word woman actually humanizes them, as it means "female homo sapiens"
That bothered me too, and he also implied that the character changes her hair color everyday? I'm not convinced the author is a woman.... even conservative women know how hair dye works
True. That is another thing that convinces me the author is male. Because I don't think I know any adult women who have never colored their hair - they all would know that.
as a stright 40 year old man i know thats not how dye works. but then agin i have acctely leived in a houshold whit Females in i, mother, sister, wife, daughter ect
I feel totally inadequate as a feminist now, because I have never dyed my hair a crazy colour. I did use black dye as a teenager, but my hair is brown naturally, so it wasn't really a big change. Guess I need to get some pink and teal stripes for proper feministing.
I'm pretty heavily tattooed, and I'm also a *female*. The number of men I've had tell me that they don't personally like tattoos on women, completely unprovoked or asked for, is ridiculous. They always say the same thing: "I just don't find it attractive." I wasn't asking!
most good high fantasy is actually more attached to /some/ kind of reality than this mess -- the societies in it are fictional and the world is imaginary, but the characters live in that world, and they act like normal people could potentially act there given everything the author has made up about where these people live... i don't think this author really even knows anything about where he himself lives, which is disappointing because that was the bare minimum for writing fiction about contemporary people :^) doing any sort of writing research involving natural human behaviour would require occasionally leaving his henpecked, resigned mother's basement to witness it, which for this type of guy is a very high bar to clear
This book oddly gives me hope. Like, that feeling when you're driving a car and you make a small mistake and think "I'm the worst driver ever, I shouldn't even be on the road!" and then five minutes later someone changes lanes without their turn signal, cuts you off, and nearly causes an accident, and you think "huh, if they're allowed on the road, then I definitely should be. I may not be the best driver in the world, but I'm way better than them". Precisely that feeling. If this crap could get published, then there's hope for every aspiring writer of merely middling talent.
Sure, but for the record it wasn't published. It was SELF published. Anyone can self publish a book, for free, on Amazon or Smashwords. It is very easy to do, I recommend everyone do it at least once. ;) There are no minimum word requirements, no editing requirements, nothing. You can even publish a blank notebook if you'd like. You just can't steal from someone else.
True... Everytime I write and re-write some plot and think that this will never get accepted, I just think about the absurd amount of rubbish that's been published in the last two decades by seriously large publishers and I just know that I can get something published once I actually manage to finish a book.
@@RestlessThoughts Well that explains how terrible this book is, lol. Though to be fair, I've seen some traditionally published books that didn't seem much better.
As Bo Burnham said in his song "Straight White Male" Straight white male, I know the road looks tough ahead The women want rights The blacks want not to be called 'the blacks' Can't you just leave us alone? And also, no, to the things you asked for No Straight white male, I know the road looks tough ahead The women want rights The African-Ameri-it doesn't work for the rhythm of this song We used to have all the money and land We still do but it's not as fun now
The levels of delusion this book is on, is actually terrifying. We want to laugh because this book is terribly written with a ludicrous plot, but more & more people are revealing themselves to actually think like this.
Or, if you live in certain areas in the country, you knew they've been around for at least two decades. It's only recently that they've been able to find each other and organize. I'm going through rotations for medical school and had a patient the other day who was wearing a mask that said "Fraud 2020." One of the silver linings of universal mask requirements is no one could see the "shit-eating" grin on my face. But unfortunately, the situation didn't allow me to, subtly, prod him a bit. Unlike just doing errands downtown. Since I started wearing my KN95's everywhere, not just at the hospital, I've noticed an increase in people who either roll their eyes or actually attempt to "educate" me on how ineffective and bad for your health they are. Meanwhile, my mother (who is an ELCA pastor) is having issues with the church council that wants to break off from the ELCA. They fail to realize that doing so will, effectively, put an end to the church as a whole. Why, you may ask? Because the association allows LGBT individuals and people of middle eastern descent to join the congregation and to hold administrative positions.
Yeah. It’s one of those books that, if it were openly parody, I’d read for a laugh (if I found it free on Kindle etc), but I know I’d get angry knowing people are actually like this.
Like even if you look at who voted for Trump, you will know most of the people who voted for him were right. Yes Black, Hispanic, and Asian Trump voters exist but it isn't THAT diverse.
I mean to be honest, as I feminist I have to say that I do have a lot of rage inside of me at times. For example when somebody writes a whole book around the old „feminists just need some dick“ idea
Nooooo no no rebbi8548, feminists need dick AND pregnancy. That will put them back in their natural place as a woman. The womanly motherly female hormones produced by women during pregnancy makes them revert back to their natural state of being a robot only capable of loving babies, being feminine, and nurturing everything in sight. It's literally just biology 🙄 I want to kms after writing that
This is so ridiculous. Though, not gonna lie, I'm pretty into the idea of a group of feminists hanging out in lingerie and partaking in whiskey and cigars.
I was working on a campaign in 2018 and did in fact go “undercover” at a Republican fundraising and congressional campaign luncheon, and incredibly, no hunky MAGA man made me his female wife.
@@emilyrln I used some green spray on dye for my hair once. That stuff stayed in for a few days. It washes out but it shouldn't in one go, depending on how thick the MCs hair was...
you gotta bleach it first and THEN you put the dye in, right? i dunno, my hair is as spiky as a porcupine, i got a beard like cactus needles and sandpaper.
They do sell temporary wash-out dye, but if someone were actually changing their hair every few days they'd probably just wear wigs. Definitely not how most use dyes.
The snitching on the parents part falls right into the Christian rights’s view of patriarchy. Women, even adults,are the property of their fathers and must submit to their demands until the get married to their husband who they must also submit to.
@@JayaTea40582 Nah, that's just how conservative Christians are. All my teachers at school whose religion lessons I was forced to attend were super cool and chill. Accepting and smart. But my parents are bitter at how "liberal" Christianity has become and don't shy away from abusing me if I don't do what they want.
@@JayaTea40582 Hey look, you grasped the point of what I was saying, when one says the Christian right the person is indicating there's nuance. Nuance that you ignored when you pretended he hadn't said it was a specific type of Cristian he was speaking about.
Christianity or all the Abraham religions rather actually are crazy sexist. And people wonder why all of the religions in that umbrella seem to have serious issues.
Conservative wish-fulfillment. I come from a conservative family and town and listening to your summary of this romance was almost surprisingly unsurprising. Spot on about the denial of being a possible minority, the denial of liberals having a range of perspectives and the insistence that only conservatives are well-intentioned but misunderstood.
@@bookshopvampire Don't drag the political extremists into this, who just hold views that are far outside the current political status quo and which doesn't equate "violent" or "hateful". What you're describing is simply a lack of empathy towards an out-group, which sadly isn't unique to conservatives. I know plenty of people on government watch lists and they are nice people who understand they hold a minority opinion and that their ideological opponents aren't neccesarily evil.
Honestly if that's how hair dye worked I'd dye it all the time :P in this book's universe, you probably don't need to bleach dark hair to dye it brighter colours, either. The only thing that's utopian about this horrendous deluded book...
@@andreaslind6338 That's like saying "Temporary tattoos exist so it's ok that the book said all tattoos can be washed off" It's not the norm, by far, so it doesn't make since for someone to bring it up like it is unless the writer doesn't know any better
@@christopherjones8448 Wash out hair dye still doesn't wash out all in one go, which is why they added "still does not work that way". Liberty just doesn't get how hair dyes.
“Liberty Adams” either sounds like a hilarious drag Queen who has the amazing personality of Trixie Mattel OR A conservative stripper in a podunk Christian town that has entertained half the conservative Christian men in the town, including the pastor AND his wife. 😂😂😂😂
@@Mamaplusone it would be about the hat reforming and removing the stitching with erotica OR about how the hat is an awful selfish lover and gets dumped
"Rammed in the ass by the conceptualization of my future novel "My boyfriend, the sentient hunky badboy MAGA hat - a Chuck Tingle erotic love story" by Chuck Tingle" authored and coauthored by Chuck Tingle and Hideo Kojima
I'm noticing a trend in the comments about this book reading like it was written by a middle-aged man and while I also got that vibe, I make a point of not questioning someone's gender. If Liberty says she's a woman then she's a woman.
I don't think people are suggesting that Liberty is trans; more like that a cis man is shielding himself behind a female persona in order to excuse his rather hateful stance against feminism.
There definitely are right-wing women who think this way. In my upbringing i heard “feminazi” dozens of times before learning anything about feminism beyond the earning of voting rights (good) and reproductive rights (evil). If i had gotten married to a like-minded person before escaping this bubble, i could be Liberty Adams.
My grandfather was an SA Nazi thug so a guy bolstering to live his conservative grandfather issues like its a badge of honor is probably the most disturbing part in this book for me
@@annabellehe4307 The Sturmabteilung, or Brownshirts, were the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. They served as Hitler's bodyguards, provided security at Nazi Party rallies, and went around beating up Romani, communists, trade unionists, Jews, and anyone else the Nazis didn't like. After the 1934 Night of the Long Knives purge, they were effectively replaced by the more infamous SS.
I'm glad you learned not to emulate your grandpa. - That said,, you're probably thankful that he wasn't murdered alongside his peers by the SS Nazis during thr Night of the Long Knives.
@@SpukiTheLoveKitten75 Uhhh..."be grateful your nazi grandfather didn't die or else you wouldn't be alive"? Weird statement bruh, pretty sure the problem isn't whether the guy had descendants but the fact he was a nazi
As an active member of the romance community who saw this going around on Twitter, I definitely agree it’s a solid candidate for Worst Romance Book, although she’s sadly not alone in what she’s pushing. Nazi and slave owner romances pop up regularly, and this isn’t even the first contemporary “across party lines” romance that heavily leaned toward the conservative side…there’s others from pretty reputable publishers who also drew controversy, so it’s definitely not unique to self pub. It’s rare to find political romance written well, because of issues like this, but I do like the Political Persuasions series by Emma Barry. They’re recently republished version of books from 2014-2015, and in a lot of ways, the outlook is reminiscent of those times. But the re-release also allowed her to address some issues that have changed in the intervening years, particularly regarding the third book, now called The One You Hate. It’s about a political staffers working for opposite political parties, and the woman is the Republican. She talks frankly and reasonably about her issues with the Democrats, but also develops further awareness of the ways in which she doesn’t fully fit with the Republicans, especially as a person of color. And Barry is pretty up-front in all her content notes about the story (at least the new version of it) culminating with the heroine leaving the Republican Party.
@@UmbraKrameri I'm not familiar with the subgenre as a whole, but let us not forget For Such A Time. I expect there's a fair bit of more inspie ones like that for maximum redemption points, but honestly who knows. Haven't seen the recent slave owner ones, usually the ones I see are at least published decades ago.
@@pandoraeve9751 I can't imagine that many people, except Richard Spencer and Stephen Miller, would write a Nazi romance where the Nazi is in the right and not on some kind of redemption arc.
The fact that he goes to her parents instead of confronting her as a grown adult capable of taking responsibility for her own actions really just proves that either a) he doesn’t respect or acknowledge her as an equal, or b) he was unwilling to face her himself. Either one is strong evidence that he is not suited to pursuing any sort of romantic relationship or partnership with her.
Good God, the fact that the author doesn’t see how “the hunk” calling her parents to complain about her, isn’t the most Ken/Karen thing in the world explains this whole book. Even more, it was supposed to be this holier than thou move. W-O-W
My parents would absolutely laugh hysterically if some guy called them to complain about my behaviour. "She's an adult, dude, we don't babysit her." I'm disabled so people actually think I should "behave". My parents would be happy I was having fun. Plus, how did he get their number? My number was/is not the same as my parents'.
It’s a fundamentalist Christian mindset. Grown women are still treated as children under the supervision of their father until their father gives them away to a man.
ACTUALLY DOMINIC THIS BOOK CHANGED ME 😡 After I read this book I ran to the bathroom and started crying. I looked at myself in the mirror. I ripped out my septum ring and two nostril piercings. I threw all of my white foundation, eyeliner, and black lipstick into the trash. I deleted spotify. I erased my memory of The Sisters of Mercy concert i went to. I destroyed my phone to get rid of any pictures it had of me in trad goth makeup. I burnt all my black clothes and ordered a modest pink sundress. I ripped out my black box dyed hair and ordered a blonde wig. I killed my dog I named after my unholy crush on the vampire from TES 5 named Serana. I got married to the first man I saw at a Trump rally and we conceived our first that night. I gave up my hope to study ichthyology and became a preschool teacher. I go to church every sunday. I NEVER REFUSE TO GIVE MY OVERLO- I MEAN HUSBAND SEX. On the weekends I stay indoors and bake whilst bearfoot. I dont know what I was thinking. Im so glad I read this book and it reverted me back to my natural, feminine self controlled by my feminine hormones. I could never make it without my masculine, testosterone filled, alpha male. I am but a weak female who's body consists of bones and a uterus. Im so glad this book woke me up and put me in my place. LONG LIVE THE PATRIARCHY
@@woobiefuntime ? im kind of confused what point you're trying to make. 'the book would've been better if it hadn't been written by the author it'd been written by?' is that the take? because, duh? of course a book might be different if someone else wrote it. you could say this about any book. what is the point you're trying to make?
Romance novels are like the old woman's version of rule 34. If it exists there is a sub genre of romance novel that exists for it too. Heck that's double true if you want to count web comics as the modern day version.
The calling her parents strongly reminds me of during the Civil Rights movements and Vietnam protests parents would receive letters and phone calls from "helpful citizens" about what their rebellious little children were up to It definitely makes me think the author is an older male Also YAY for Jessie!!!!
@@familyberente1407 yeah, people would get phone calls and letters about the 'activities' their children were participating in. I think the theory was the family could shame them into not protesting
It's incredibly frustrating when they won't even take the time to understand what they're arguing against. Imagine if this author got into a collaborative project with someone who actually understood feminism and wrote Ricki accordingly. 'Isn't she going to be offended by him holding the door?' '? No? She's a bit annoyed he's making such a show of it, but it's a nice thing to do.' 'Isn't she grateful he saved her from the crowd??' 'No because he's clearly been following her around and now she's afraid for her safety.'
I am always flattered when someone opens the door for me, man or woman or any gender, because it's so hard to see positivity anymore that it's the little things that count. No one should ever be offended by someone holding open a door for them. That's like being offended by someone saying "thank you" after to compliment them!
@@Barnowl65 It's only offensive if the guy makes a big deal out of what a gentleman he's being for a lovely lady like you and expects some kind of extravagant thanks. Which is rare but it does happen.
It's so funny that so much of anti sjw crowd hatred comes in part from certain people having unnatural hair colors. like "UGH, this person's hair is purple, that means they must be crazy!"
It is a weird thing to fixate on. It appears to be a Baby Boomer fixation that trickled down to some of Gen X--the ones who clearly didn't participate in the punk counter culture of the late 70s-early 80s.
honestly it probably comes from people who associate non natural hair colours with stuff like punk movements, which due to their upbringing they always saw as 'evil'
I think its more basic than that. Somebody having unatural hair colours isnt conforming to (their view of) society. And they think anyone slightly differing from the norm is to either be cast out or "brought back into the fold".
My Silent Generation grandfather BUGGED OUT when my uncle grew out his hair in the '70s, because long hair meant you were gay. Of course, the '70s was the age of Castro clones and it was the sleazy heteros who had long hair.
"Her one cosmetic indulgence of black nail polish and lipstick"...Liberty that's uh...that's TWO indulgences. "Oh and the hair. Green..." So three...three indulgences then... ... ... It's like the Spanish Inquisition sketch but ya know...bad and wrong.
Whilst the notion of the novel is troubling enough, the execution of said story is even more troubling. Clearly the author not only has never met actual liberals before, but has views so repugnant that she should disqualify herself as a member of the human race. This is right up there with Kevin Sorbo's film God Is Dead as straw man arguments.
Judging by the quality of the prose, and the incessant use of "female" in place of literally any other word for woman, I'm betting the author probably hasn't met any women before either. It just reeks of white male stereotypes of women, and reminds me an awful lot of stuff I've seen written by young white men ostensibly from a women's perspective. All that seemed to be missing was the lead "female" character pontificating upon her own physical attributes.
I...kinda want to read the "arguing about socialism" part 'cus I want to see how horribly she got it wrong. Is it "cOmMieS" type of wrong or "socialists want everyone to live in barracks and eat only potatoes just to get a free bandaid" type of wrong. I'm both intrigued and horrified
@@cam4636 Well, "commies" can mean anything from "god damn stalinists want to kill my family, take away my toothbrush and collectivize my wife" to "these pinkos are teaching kids racism still exists and that it is bad". The strawman of big scary communists is nothing if not versatile. There's a wide variety of people who are progressive and left of the American center (which would be seen as a near sociopathic kind of right-wing in most other countries) and if you paint them as with the same red brush you'll end up calling a bunch of milquetoast liberals communist for thinking gay people deserve rights and legal protection.
I want to know too. I love seeing horrible misrepresentations of left-wing politics, and am genuinely curious what Liberty thinks socialism really is. It'll probably be a third-grade level of understanding to the tune of "socialism is when everyone is equal", with some more logical flaws and ideological inconsistencies added in to make the feminist character look dumb and allow her to be schooled by the Alpha Male MAGAman(TM), who will show her the way of all-American capitalism, but I want to know just how much the author'll manage to butcher the ideals of such a diverse yet clear-cut ideology.
I am with you there, I couldn't even get all the way through 'Picture of Dorian Grey'. I hit the point where he dumps a girl so brutally that she kills herself and had to stop. It is really hard to read a story you hate.
In a way, it's the terrible books that need to be read and known about. So that we can all know what we like in a book So, reading a bad book can have some benefits even if it's making you realise why you love other books more.
it's not like trump lovers are fascists! they just don't like it when the antifa get violent against people wearing swatikas and calling for white nationalism in pro-trump and qanon protests. which is a totally unreasonable thing to do. and being against that doesnt make you a fascist! and just because you have a lot of things in common with fascists and protest alongside them and let them be openly fascist around you and do nothing about it, and is actively against people fighting them, that doesnt mean you're a fash either! not to mention the antifa are way worse than them, they support throwing milkshakes at people 😱 imagine that
Yeah. It's nothing to do with the fact that they call themselves Antifa, as does the media who supports them and widely publisized their activities. ... On an unrelated note, I'm thinking of starting a movement / idea, called the Good Guys Movement, or maybe the We Never Do Anything Wrong Party. That way, I can be assured that my movement will only be full of good guys who never do anything wrong, because, DOI, it's in the name!!!!! ... I seriously hope that the basis of the Dom's comment and your supporting comment wasn't along the lines of what I just said as a satire, only you actually think that for real ... or else that would be incredibly embarrassing. ... Isn't it?
I told my girlfriend to buy this for me because I genuinely want to read this train wreck, but she refuses to give the author money on principle and told me to just pirate it. I love her
Or bans them. But this book is probably on a shelf somewhere while the book about a black girl loving her curls was banned. Just another conservative moment.
There is also Blanka Lipińska doing a “hold my beer” at 50 Shades but that still means EL James is still indirectly responsible for 365 Days and its sequels so there you go.
This sorry reeks of the author actually being "Mark" A name that sounds like an American dream for a "Female" author Clipart instead of an actual photo Not a single "Female" perspective issue actually addressed The White Knighting The over use of "Female" Seriously this book belongs in r/milady
The name Liberty Adams sounds way too fictional. The only likeness he could find of her was clip art. The repeated use of the word 'female'.... I'm sorry even conservative women use the word 'women'. The idea that you can just colour your hair every day (without it being like costume hair paint). It's not like we've never seen an incel pretend to be a woman to spew shit like this.
@@SeanStrife Yeah, sad, but true :=(. Of course if a human didn't write this it might have been written by a cat, no dog would write this, they're too nice :=)
The book reads like the stuff I used to see from how conservatives view feminism. They act like Trump is a savior and feminists are crazy hateful people. The conservative perspective believes itself to be benevolent pious people who are the beacons of good, when it genuinely lacks perspective of empathy to anyone outside of their belief group. It's entirely fueled by ego and pride. The book reeks of the conservative fantasy I've seen before. That and the degradation of women just expressing themselves outside of the limited cookie cutter range they allow. In short, its painful cringe and I salute you for slogging through this.
Yet this is also the exact way the left sees the conservatives as. Lefts never even see the conservatives as people. No feminist has ever given a shit what a conservative woman thinks or feels.
Even ignoring the misrepresentation of pretty much everything, conservatives seem to think, that you should be choosing your political position depending on how nice the people representing it are. And not on your actual beliefs. I've actually seen this a lot. Especially in fictional right-wing stuff.
And that's why respectability politics and tone policing are still alive and well. Because apparently it's okay to ignore the messages made by marginalized groups because they're rightfully angry about their situation because they're not being 'nice' and 'unbiased' about it.
@@tarotsushima3332 Yeah. It's also always conservatives who see it as you loosing an argument when you get emotional over debating literal human rights, or your own existence as a marginalized person.
And all this is ironic: given these standards are ones that Conservitive's and right wingers.... Interestingly and tellingly: don't hold themselves to. They can get as angry and unrespectible as they want and that's not a "loss" to them. Because they never play defense and the card say's moops and where good faith and intelelctual honesty are weaknesses to exploit. It's a series of tactics I have observed since 2003.
@@kingofcards9 That statement wasn't a strawman hoss: it's a flat statement of fact given my every experiance with right wingers over the course of my life. To a T: they all have the same bs arguments, the same bad faith tatics and the same suspect retorich; even my only right wing friend uses these dubious arguments and positions. All your doing: is gaslighting. And more importantly: a strawman is when a debater misrepresents their opponent's argument as a weaker version, sometimes intentionally, and rebuts said version - rather than their opponent's genuine argument. And given my thesis isn't a strawman and you are falsely calling that thesis a "strawman": you yourself are the one engaging in and presenting a strawman.
OF COURSE the author chose the pen name Liberty. Also, I just got to the part about the main character having green hair, and I'm calling it now that she ends the story a blonde with a Karen haircut, a Pandora bracelet, and mom jeans.
Your description of the girl riding off with a total stranger was particularly creepy for me because I just finished watching a video about an Oregon serial killer who killed girls foolish enough to ride off with him. All the Trump fantasy aside, that just struck me as so 1972ish...
"chooses to represent herself using clipart" So, is a man. Not saying anybody who uses clipart's got something to hide, but I get some serious "ah yes, fellow women, this is what we SHOULD want" vibes from this.
@@quynlanvuorensyrja5484 I will forever live with the possible delusion that the husband published under his wife's name, simply because, either the wife used her husband and/or husband's friends as her only guide on how men speak, or a man wrote the male leads povs
that's hilarious that they include "the people at the maga rally were SOO nice!" that sounds almost word for word how karlyn borysenko described herself becoming a trumpist
Anyone who claims they changed their entire socio-political viewpoint just because someone was nice (or mean) to them, is either spineless or a liar. It's like saying "I became a leftist because the people at the anarchist bookstore were so very nice". If I wasn't already a progressive and/or interested in anarchism, I wouldn't be at that bookstore in the first place.
"she washes off the green hair dye and makeup" if your romance novel shows a character's development by having her do the same thing the Joker does in continuities where Batman dies, you might have taken a wrong turn somewhere
Not to mention…nobody does this. Getting hair dye and lipstick off isn’t just about splashing water all over. And at a stranger’s house? Nobody of ANY political persuasion would actually do this.
It's possible that someone took a mangled tape of David Attenborough talking about rhinos and ran it through some really bad voice recognition software.
The author of this novel has never interacted with someone who wasn’t wearing a MAGA hat, have they. Wait, I should probably say “has she” because the author would probably assume I was calling her Non-Binary.
Honestly, I get the distinct feeling it's actually a man writing a woman. It just feels that way, it feels like a man writing a woman, or what they think a woman acts like. I'm a feminist, and this book just pisses me off.
Oof. This did not disappoint. I agree that it is kind of a fascinating view into the minds of conservatives. I'm Canadian so it's not quite as bad here, but I managed to marry into a family of radical conservatives and this does help me understand them a little better. Good thing I always wash off my green hair and black lipstick before family gatherings lol.
I'm somewhat surprised that they think we can simply wash the hair out. It's apparently always temporary daily dye? Can you imagine if anyone had that kind of time?
I honestly burst out laughing to the point my kids are looking at me weirdly. I'm a romance writer. I often worry if my books are going to do well. Then I watched your video and I realized my books can never be that bad.
I’m only a couple minutes into the video but I already have some thoughts. The author spends time talking about the “feminists” cosmetic choices and how they are indicators of her feminism. For Trumpists, this is true, Dom even mentions that it is “MAGA HAT romance” rather than MAGA romance. Every personal choice, for Trumpists, is part of their political identity and they cannot perceive of a world where it is not. Everything they do must be part of the ideology and this is why they’ve become so isolated. Edit: I want the guy narrating the parts of the book where the author kept saying “female” as my ringtone! 😂
Wow, this makes those supernatural love stories about women falling in love with vampires, werewolves, dragons and what have you seem down to earth and realistic.
I've had a root canal, and it was actually one of the easier procedures I've had done. Mild discomfort from holding my mouth open for so long, but afterwards I felt great. That dentist was awesome. I've had ordinary check-ups more painful than that root canal, so I can say with absolute certainty that it is FAR better than reading this rambling nonsense.
@@Katherine_999 mine is also green and I’ve intended to keep it green a while longer as it is, and this fuels that desire that much more. I lowkey hope green hair becomes the new “keep away from me” color
I was feeling insecure about a book I'm working on the first draft of, then I watched this video and realised that even if I fail miserably at every step, it is impossible for it to be worse than this... whatever it is.
I’ve never even heard of this book and it’s already not only dated itself but feels like a gigantic satire. And yet it’s sincerely serious in its own bullshit. Amazing.
This just makes me imagine myself as a Voltron like robot putting my FEMALE defense shield up so I can fire my weaponized tears at my enemies. Pew Pew.
As a romance reader, author, and blogger, this hits a special sort of way. Could there be an interesting romance story between a conservative person and a liberal person? Sure. Howwwwever, one side being 100% Good and the other side 100% bad, the "Good" side bludgeoning the "Bad" side with the "obvious" wrongness of their ways, uh, no. What I come away from this is indeed the true "hero" or lead of the story being the far right point of view. Which isn't what a romance novel is about. If both characters listen as much as talk, re-evaluate, and change, ending up in a place that is good for both of them, then there might be something. But what I see here? Nope. I don't see that working as a romance or work of fiction at all. Romance is a wide umbrella, to be sure, but this book sounds all wet to me. I do appreciate the suggestion of books by Black authors that a reader may enjoy more, and would like to add the works of some notable Black romance authors: Piper G. Huguley, Beverly Jenkins, and Alyssa Cole. Also bonus points for the Jessie Gender guest spot. Always happy to hear more Jessie.
"This book sounds all wet to me." Probably because it sucked the moisture out of everything in its vicinity. Nothing is wet around this unwashed gym sock of a novel.
Liberty's idea of freedom is, apparently, freedom to abandon one's desire for self-expression, freedom to conform to other people's values, and freedom to subjugate oneself to hunky guys.
@@EphemeralTao Ayn Rand's idea of romance is terrifying, which is reflected in her stories. Which isn't surprising given her blatant disregard for life in general, like her disregard for Marion Parker and idolozation of William Hickman.
I think the funniest thing about this is that conservative stereotypes about the left are so off, but going by how the author thinks, the left's stereotypes of the right are dead on.
Well..it's not really about politics. It's about two groups of people: People who really need to belong, and people who would rather not, but have some political and moral convictions in common.
No. It means that someone on the left found a particularly funny example of propaganda that fills all the preconceived notions of what someone on the right is like. Don't get me wrong, I hate Donald Trump and his fascist nonsense. I'm not trying to "defend" the right lol. But I find this kind of thinking very dangerous. Even as just a joke or a meme.
Not exactly. There are people who fit conservative's stereotype's of the left. It's just that at the moment the pendulum on which sides stereotype is more representative is pretty hard to the right.
@@one_smol_duck seriously, we should point and laugh at bizarre content like this all we want but if we pretend like the majority of the right or all conservatives are as delusional as this then that will just lead to more division. conservatives will get angrier and more hateful for everyone different from them as they get constantly made fun of and compared to a charcuterie for their views. and American politics will spiral further down the shit hole as it pushes the right into actually believing these extreme views more and more because they get harassed for them anyways so why not.
@@one_smol_duck The overton window's in full effect: you might still think you're on the right, but the dipshits shitting on your side of the fence (and honestly, I feel genuinely sorry for all of you that are going to have to clean the lawn up once the shitmakers get shoved off the face of the earth) stretched "right" so far that now you look center-right by comparison.
I'm actually laughing at the hair color bit. Unless it is hair chalk, or something similar. You cannot wash out hair dye. Even temporary. Temporary just means it doesn't last as long.
As soon as I heard the name "Liberty Adams" I just knew this had to be a man using a pseudonym. The fact that the author keeps referring to women as "females" only deepened my suspicions.
@@jaymartin8273 The author portrait is a cartoon, not a photograph, and I can't find any pictures of "her" online, so yeah I'm pretty sure it's a guy too
You can be misogynistic and think of yourself as a tool and object as a woman. I don't see why someone who is a woman couldn't think of themselves as lesser and "for his pleasure" in every sense if they've been conditioned most of their life to think that way. Heck, could even be Stockholm syndrome in many cases to defend it. A super depressing parallel is many people who have been trafficked are often defensive of their captors or keepers. Like, tooth and nail fighting to stay in their horrible position. There is a whole training program to help people in that mindset and get them out of slavery because it's a super delicate process, specially if they were trafficked when young.
Hate to break it to you but, but there's a whole genre dedicated to rewriting real life events differently from how they played out called historical fiction.
I know the authors of these kinds of stories always assume that their main couple get together and live happily ever after. I gotta say, though, that moment where it's explicitly stated that Ricki does the title drop "wearily" makes me think the canon end to her and Mike's story is that she realizes she finds his domineering ways frustrating, that she only started dating him because she felt bad about him getting doxxed, and then dumps him because she realizes that kind of relationship will never work long-term.
Interestingly, I think it indicates he has psychologically beaten her down and she's currently traumatized that she's simply now numb. I would like to think she eventually realizes his emotional and psychological abuse and leaves him.
Dom, you are out of this world. For the sake of people you'll never meet, you endure things like Fifty Shades, The Mister, Twilight and now this. I felt so triggered throughout the video that my attention oscillated like a ship during a storm 🤢 On a side note, thanks for reviewing Jordan Ifueko's Raybearer. Your video was so good that, immediately after I watched it, I bought both Raybearer and Redemptor to my best friend. She LOVED them, to the point of giving me rather long spoiler-free teasers of their stories every few days 😂
Agreed on Raybearer! I bought it based off his review (and that gorgeous cover) and loved it so much that I pre-ordered Redemptor the moment it was available. Ofc I loved it too! I can't wait to see what Ifueko writes next.
@@lamaface I don't think I can link it directly but it's titled Raybearer ~ An African Inspired Fantasy Adventure and is right here on his channel! Oops it apparently did post! Glad it worked!
I knew that had to be Jessie doing the voiceover. Her distinct “I am pretending to be a person who believes the BS that is being said right now” voice is so great. The sarcasm is amazing.
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Not gonna lie, as a long time fan that was fun to read lol
Is this story better or worse than Fifty Shades of Grey?
I feel like we should suggest good books for you to make up for this torture.
Bought Raybearer; excited to give it a read! I didn't even finish reading the synopsis when I thought "YEP!"
From one of the few 5-star reviews the book has:
_"Are you too poor to afford a trip to disney land? Well, do I have good news for you! Read through any number of books in this series, and you’ll immediately have brain cancer. Make-a-wish will sponsor you for the Disneyland trip you’ve always wanted! Thank me later!"_
Oh that's savage.
Someone get whoever wrote that a beer 😂
@@brettjohnson536No they should be given a feast fit for a king.
And a late night comedy shwo
Want to give a like but it's at 666 and that's too fitting. 😢
happy women's history month, everybody~ -R
Glad to see one of my favorite youtubers is a fan of another one of my favorites.
The crossover I didn't know I needed, right here.
@@strykerryder2346 Dom was even on the OSPodcast once!
You certainly live up to your name and I love it!
Trope talk- sexy asmr throat inflammation.
17:08 "But tears didn't count. They, like words, were just another weapon wielded by females..." Are we sure Liberty is not secretly an incel?
That must be why the MGTOWs keep calling her. They're actually not doxxing; they just want their misogyny back.
not secretly, no...
I mean between this and the eery number of times the word "female" was used....this seems super likely
I was thinking the exact same thing. What woman would refer to other women as females. Creepy. Whenever I hear that, my mind automatically includes females of all species.
@@mek0411 Also the fact that they only present themselves in clipart
"She could play with a MAN'S senses as well as any FEMALE." That line right there sums up the "female" thing so well. If the author had said "male's senses...any female" at least it would show consistency, but for some reason the man gets to be called a man but the woman is referred to as a female. Telling
Yeah that's literally it, to paraphrase.
Men are thought of as human beings while women are female, whenever a woman acts like a human being she is considered to be imitating the man.
I think a man wrote it for this and many other reasosm
@@unicornsprinkles8964 agreed!
There's also a hint of terfism here. As I trans man I often find terfs, while being in a constant state of rage against trans women, actually forget trans men exist unless one is standing right in front of them,waving his hands franticly while screeming in their faces.
Is it sexist if you refer to men as males AND women as females?
If only listening about this book almost gave me brain damage, imagine the torment of actually reading it. Your bravery shall be remembered, Dom
Right, I was thinking that too. This guy has monumental stamina to be able slog thru this garbage to the end
We salute him
Thank you for your service Sir
Agreed. I'm watching this the day after my green-haired wife got another tattoo.
He has sacrificed his brain cells for our sins
Readers: "Tell us you've never spoken with a feminist or person of colour without telling us you've never spoken with a feminist or person of colour"
Liberty Adams:
I'm not even sure they've spoken to a woman. This book is grade A incel fantasies. 🤢🤮
Probably the most apt comparison I can make is Chick Tracts only replace God or Jesus with Trump (literally I mean, not just figuratively like so many conservative Christians do without even realizing it)
Liberty Adams is obviously a man. No photo except clip art? Writing about his bicep like bad authors write about women’s bouncing bosom? Authors plaster their photos everywhere and there are lots of Trump supporters so she has a base she could sell her book to (if they could read). Why hide?
A far lesser literary crime but to add onto that, "tell us you know nothing about how hair dye works without telling us you know nothing about how hair dye works"
Seriously the amount of work it took me to just try out hair dyeing there is no way anyone in their right mind is changing their hair colour everyday without it being enormously enjoyable to them. Has Liberty never heard of wigs??
@@animemangalover94 Also, the hair dye would NOT take if dyed everyday and would completely ruin someone's hair even if it did take.
"her hair is green today" "she washes out her green hair" that's... not how hair dye works. I don't think that's how hair color spray works either
The last time I put on colored hair spray, it required half a bottle of shampoo to get it all out. And i had decently long hair then
That's because liberty is obviously a dude who has no clue how anything works
Hair crayons and cheap hair dyes do come out visibly with one wash.
But we are talking about the ones that start to fade like 2-3 hours after application and will stain literally anything they touch.
Washibility also depends on how much coats did you put on if you use spray, what is your natural hair colour and texture, what kind of shampoo you use and maybe even the water temperature. Also the brand.
@@familyberente1407 I dont miss those LMFAO
I've seen 12 yes olds write better self insert fanfiction, this is so embarrassing
Better, and probably sexier.
@@psycher7 Can confirm. 13 year old me wrote some truly cringey fic about my favorite ship...but I'd be pretty confident putting it up against this crap!
Yeah, I've read plenty of fanfics that are way better than this sorry excuse of a book!
My Immortal is better than this tbf
I’m normally loath to say this but I think even my 12 year old self’s self insert fanfics were better written than this book.
The use of "female" (along with everything else) leads me to believe that Liberty Adams is actually a conservative man. Like A LOT of the stuff does not feel like something a feeemale author would write, no matter how delusional. Edit: stuff like how the male hero feels more like a writer self insert, and how the protagonist apparently switches her hair color EVERY day, like even with wash-out color that would be soooo time consuming. How she goes back and begs the hero to date her, which is such a typical incel revenge fantasy
When we were picking a name for the women's resource group at work I was amazed (and horrified) how many women submitted names with "female" in them - sometimes to make a fun-sounding acronym, but sometimes because they thought it was a good way to talk about a group of women.
Same! Even if the hair color was something relatively gentle on the hair like chalk, the time and money of changing it daily is unreasonable...
@@Amy_the_Lizard Right! Everything else about the main girl also seems very "men writing women"
@@margotmolander5083 I mean I’m a raging feminist, but if I got the chance to pick a group name, I would definitely pitch “Female Fight Force” and be a proud member.
I think there's about a 400% chance the author is a man.
Jesus, it sounds like the only thing missing from this is Ricki being a lesbian who later gets "cured" by Mister Maga Man.
And Ricki saying that she doesn't want kids, until she realises that she just hadn't met the man whose kids she was destined to have.
That's probably book 2… _shudders_
Or that she’s transmasc but gets “cured” by him
Don't give them ideas for the sequel!
@@emilyrln are they writing a sequel 😰
I do believe we’ve found the latest member of the “actually not a better love story than Twilight” club.
Latest? There’s more? (Besides 50 shades of course)
@@parallax7789 According to esteemed Internet personality Todd in the Shadows, the Madonna version of the movie Swept Away also belongs in that club.
@@parallax7789 *laughs* i see your new
@@parallax7789 365 days……
At least Twilight had Charlie Swan
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There is absolutely no way in hell that ‘Liberty Adams’ is anything but a conservative guy. A lot of the language choices don’t feel like ones that women would make, even if they’re really conservative.
idk there’s some scary conservative women out there
This book is truly an insult to the American conservatives the same as True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro
@@garibaldibritann1240 Both of those books are the most honest depictions of American conservatism as it actually exists that have ever existed. The worst thing you can do to conservatism is describe it as it actually is in the real world as opposed to how conservatives need it to be depicted in order for them to look good.
@@tjenadonn6158 I mean, yeah that's kinda sad and shows a bad stereotype for conservatives anyway
Lol, could you imagine? It would be ironic since in the past woman had to use male pseudonyms to get books published.
Dehumanizing women by repeatedly referring to them simply as "female" is what you expect from caricature characters like the Ferengi, not adult humans talking about one another.
The rest of the book sounds awful too.
I have met an odd amount of people out in real life lately who refer to me as "female." Both men and women. Like in the context of saying, "You, as a female, must have experienced [x] thing," or "Could you give a female perspective on this," or "Men don't understand what us females deal with." One lady unironically called me a "fellow female," and I thought she was referencing the "fellow kids" meme and laughed, and she deadass stared at me with a "what's so funny." :/
as a trans man, i joke about being an incel because of tradfems and radfems.
this book is making me want to both double down and stop joking about it
@Artemis Rose - I can't help but read sentences that casually use the word "female" in a Ferengi-inspired tone of voice. I think that perfectly illustrates the sort of mindset underpinning it whether it's conscious or not.
@@JosephDavies “Feeeemales”
Hbomberguys Pick up Artistry Video Essay is a funny Supplement to all this here.
I would like it noted that Edward Cullen also was just “following” Bella around in case she “needed protecting/saving.”
Cool motive. Still stalking there, Liberty,
Never thought I'd say this, but if I had to date my stalker, I'd rather them have cool magic powers.
I would like to provide an extremely tepid defense of Edward: he could read the minds of everyone who had negative intent toward Bella, there were usually other vampires threatening Bella, the wolfboys were known to wolf out and randomly maul people when pissed off, and Bella's only character trait is that she is so clumsy she could trip and fall face-first into a sack of knives. So his paranoia wasn't completely unfounded. (still don't stalk people, stalking bad)
Honestly, in hindsight, that mind-reading ability probably contributed to some sort of extreme anxiety disorder.
I am so glad I wasn't the only one whose brain went there at that bit.
@@GoddoDoggo This is true too though.
But, then again, that wasn't his real motive for following her either...those were really just all the excuses he dug up in order to make himself feel better about doing it even when he knew he shouldn't.👀😅😅🤦♀️
This is one of the only times I feel like I can’t use the phrase “Still a better love story than Twilight.” There is no way I could make it through a mess like this.
I can’t even think 50 shades will beat this
At least Twilight occasionally has interesting ideas.
I mean, twilight isn't as problematic with not understanding terms. And stays out of political stuff (except the native american tribe in the book that it both brought attention to and provided some serious misrepresentstion about it).
But mostly the love story in Twilight is better only because it's BLAND with two boring blandass leads. These ones just sound like stupid and damaging leads.
@@desireeloveros1055 heh, “beat”… Wait, why am I sad now?
Twilight is a bearably twee Hallmark movie compared to this. Then again, given that Myers is a semi-competent wordsmith and E.L. James needs to be beaten with a guide to basic grammar (among other things) and I don't even know how to categorize this "author", Twilight is a freaking Pulitzer contender compared to either.
“ I as a black man....” cracked me up. That is clearly how we as black people start all our sentences.
This book clearly shows how many people see those opposed to their views as one dimensional characters. I also can't get over the tattoo thing. It shows how clueless they are. I guess now one should tell them in Victorian England upper class aristocracy women would sometimes get small hidden tattoos.
When i see "man" and "female" in the same space, it feels like man/woman is socially based, and about the person, whereas male/female is anatomical/biological. It gives me the sense that the women in the space are being seen as another species or only defined by their anatomy, while the men are people participating in society and engaging with others
I don't, but sure, you do you.
... However, it is jarring to see man and female used together, or male and woman, mostly because I'm used to reading "male and female" and "men and women".
@@js66613 It is jarring. That it's man... but then... female.
I genuinely wouldn't have a problem with my gender be referred to as "females", if people did the same for men and said "males". Maybe they do? But I honestly never see it as commonly as "females". That's why I don't feel odd when people say "males and females", or men and women, like you said.
All over social media though, i see "man"... but for me, its "females". Even though u might not get the exact implication as Shira does, you've gotta admit that there's a difference in tone/intent.
@@user-oy5hb5nq5h About the only people who refer to men as "males" are radfems trying to prove that men are, in fact, basically another species from women...or cops describing a suspect. It's dehumanizing all the way down.
Edit: Oh, and of course, aLpHa MaLeS trying to slot men into the omegaverse to dOmInAte the other males and females
Oh yeah. What’s weirder is how often it happens. There’s a whole subreddit on the occurrence, aptly called r/MenAndFemales
Right? It very much feels that way. No one I know but asholes and vets regularly use the word "Female" like that. A dog is male or female, my friends are dudes and dudettes.
My hamster is female, my co-worker is a women. It just feels dehumanizing
E. L. James: "I wrote the worst romance novel ever."
Liberty Adams: "Hold my beer."
“Hold my whiskey and cigar” 😂
Hold my females
Hold my "blacks" 🤣🤣🤣
Funny you should reference 50 Shades, because this has got to be the first book since that franchise to earn the prestigious, highly-coveted "Genuinely Not a Better Love Story Than Twilight" award.
I would rather read 50 Shades of Grey than this claptrap and I don’t even like erotica lol 😆
"Women of all [...] economic levels" - glad this was mentioned, since it's always 100% clear how much your income is simply based on what you look like!
id suggest that theyre all wearing little name tags that just have their annual income written on there so you know their economic level, but that seems too similar to pronoun pins for the author to write without having a fit
I too facepalmed at this. SMH 🤦♀️
Well, Gucchi and Wallmart are not in the same wallet bracket, are they?
@@MegaMilenche Not the fucking point.
I'm glad other people commented on this too lol, like even if we take away all of the horrible ideas Liberty Adams spouts in the book, it's still objectively trash writing.
Re: "Females" and "Blacks"... Turning an adjective into a noun and then using it to refer to a group of people just feels derogatory. It reduces whole individuals into just one trait.
Precisely! Even with like less discriminates due to reasons groups such as many white people you really shouldn't pair down the entire demographic as 'the whites'. Not cool to reduce!
People like to do that, simplify concepts for an easier understanding, and a lot of the time it's unconscious but hoo boy when it is on purpose you can _feel_ it in your bones.
question, how does woman not do the same, or technician, or american or christian?
they are all terms that point out one specific trait expecting you to be aware, that that does not mean, you do not have any others.
Not arguing we should use the words that upset people, I just do not get the logic behind the complaint
@@SingingSealRiana all of those are nouns
What are you talking about? An adjective doubling as a noun for people described by that adjective is _incredibly_ common in English.
We can talk about "Muslim people", or just "Muslims". We can talk about "Italian people", or just "Italians". We can talk about "Asian people", or just "Asians". We can talk about "adolescent people", or just "adolescents". We can talk about "vegetarian people" or just "vegetarians".
No one who hears someone described as "an Australian" is thinking "gee, I guess that person must not have any attributes other than Australian-ness".
@@NulonoIt's about associations. women are called females almost exclusively in negative and degrading contexts. You wouldn't call a female horse a woman, right? Cause it's a mare. Mare both specifies the sex AND the species of said organism. You wouldn't call a male chicken a man, as that's a rooster. Only the word woman actually humanizes them, as it means "female homo sapiens"
"Washed out her hair dye" that's not how dye works.
The author has never heard of rinses and can hair color before.
Of all the things that could've bothered me about the book, this is what bothered me most of all.
That bothered me too, and he also implied that the character changes her hair color everyday? I'm not convinced the author is a woman.... even conservative women know how hair dye works
True. That is another thing that convinces me the author is male. Because I don't think I know any adult women who have never colored their hair - they all would know that.
as a stright 40 year old man i know thats not how dye works. but then agin i have acctely leived in a houshold whit Females in i, mother, sister, wife, daughter ect
As a feminist I am constantly changing my hair color via my evil man hating magic.
I feel totally inadequate as a feminist now, because I have never dyed my hair a crazy colour.
I did use black dye as a teenager, but my hair is brown naturally, so it wasn't really a big change.
Guess I need to get some pink and teal stripes for proper feministing.
Shhh they will tell the vatican
As a man and a feminist, I must exist as a paradox in this 'author's' mind. The Schrodinger's cat of politics :=)
@@jaymartin8273 BUT DO YOU HAVE COLOURFUL HAIR???
@@johannageisel5390 Worse. I'm multiracial!! :=)
I'm pretty heavily tattooed, and I'm also a *female*. The number of men I've had tell me that they don't personally like tattoos on women, completely unprovoked or asked for, is ridiculous. They always say the same thing: "I just don't find it attractive."
I wasn't asking!
"I don't like men who open their mouth and speak." is a reasonable answer here.
Same here. I usually just laugh and say, "it's cute that you think I care."
"Alas, poor maiden! We shan't be able to mate, for thou hath be-inked thine body!" - Them, or how they imagine themselves inside their heads.
@@yltraviole My heart bleeds for all the missed opportunities. 🤣
@@reizak8966 What makes men think that if woman is getting a tattoo, then she's doing it for their attention?
This book is so detached from reality I'm surprised they didn't file it under high fantasy in the bookstore.
even fantasy is more believable than this
most good high fantasy is actually more attached to /some/ kind of reality than this mess -- the societies in it are fictional and the world is imaginary, but the characters live in that world, and they act like normal people could potentially act there given everything the author has made up about where these people live...
i don't think this author really even knows anything about where he himself lives, which is disappointing because that was the bare minimum for writing fiction about contemporary people :^)
doing any sort of writing research involving natural human behaviour would require occasionally leaving his henpecked, resigned mother's basement to witness it, which for this type of guy is a very high bar to clear
This fantasy is a different kind of high
more surealism, I did not see dragons or magic
This book oddly gives me hope. Like, that feeling when you're driving a car and you make a small mistake and think "I'm the worst driver ever, I shouldn't even be on the road!" and then five minutes later someone changes lanes without their turn signal, cuts you off, and nearly causes an accident, and you think "huh, if they're allowed on the road, then I definitely should be. I may not be the best driver in the world, but I'm way better than them". Precisely that feeling. If this crap could get published, then there's hope for every aspiring writer of merely middling talent.
Sure, but for the record it wasn't published. It was SELF published. Anyone can self publish a book, for free, on Amazon or Smashwords. It is very easy to do, I recommend everyone do it at least once. ;) There are no minimum word requirements, no editing requirements, nothing. You can even publish a blank notebook if you'd like. You just can't steal from someone else.
True... Everytime I write and re-write some plot and think that this will never get accepted, I just think about the absurd amount of rubbish that's been published in the last two decades by seriously large publishers and I just know that I can get something published once I actually manage to finish a book.
This is such a positive way to think about this book :)
@@RestlessThoughts Well that explains how terrible this book is, lol. Though to be fair, I've seen some traditionally published books that didn't seem much better.
@@Rime_in_Retrograde Yes, absolutely! Your original point still stands :)
"There's no racism here at all" said the book literally calling my people "Blacks"
As Bo Burnham said in his song "Straight White Male"
Straight white male, I know the road looks tough ahead
The women want rights
The blacks want not to be called 'the blacks'
Can't you just leave us alone?
And also, no, to the things you asked for
No
Straight white male, I know the road looks tough ahead
The women want rights
The African-Ameri-it doesn't work for the rhythm of this song
We used to have all the money and land
We still do but it's not as fun now
Okay, but what IS the term now?
@@JohnDoe-uf3lj Black people or Black Americans or any term that doesn't use "Black" as a noun.
@@JohnDoe-uf3lj black people, black Americans, African Americans, or people of color (abbreviated as POC)
@@idontneedaname318 just want to leave a note here that “POC” is used for various ethnicities and races, not just black people
The levels of delusion this book is on, is actually terrifying. We want to laugh because this book is terribly written with a ludicrous plot, but more & more people are revealing themselves to actually think like this.
So was fifty shad s and twilight..and look what happened there.....
@@LucianCorrvinus Stop tempting the elder gods please xD
Or, if you live in certain areas in the country, you knew they've been around for at least two decades. It's only recently that they've been able to find each other and organize.
I'm going through rotations for medical school and had a patient the other day who was wearing a mask that said "Fraud 2020." One of the silver linings of universal mask requirements is no one could see the "shit-eating" grin on my face. But unfortunately, the situation didn't allow me to, subtly, prod him a bit. Unlike just doing errands downtown. Since I started wearing my KN95's everywhere, not just at the hospital, I've noticed an increase in people who either roll their eyes or actually attempt to "educate" me on how ineffective and bad for your health they are.
Meanwhile, my mother (who is an ELCA pastor) is having issues with the church council that wants to break off from the ELCA. They fail to realize that doing so will, effectively, put an end to the church as a whole. Why, you may ask? Because the association allows LGBT individuals and people of middle eastern descent to join the congregation and to hold administrative positions.
Yeah. It’s one of those books that, if it were openly parody, I’d read for a laugh (if I found it free on Kindle etc), but I know I’d get angry knowing people are actually like this.
Like even if you look at who voted for Trump, you will know most of the people who voted for him were right. Yes Black, Hispanic, and Asian Trump voters exist but it isn't THAT diverse.
I mean to be honest, as I feminist I have to say that I do have a lot of rage inside of me at times. For example when somebody writes a whole book around the old „feminists just need some dick“ idea
Well, do you own dick shaped things you really really like, but hate the thing when it comes attached to a male of not POC persuasion?
It really gets the blood boiling doesn’t it?
What's funny is that, as a feminist, I have, and have had, many a dick. Silicone ones are the most reliable, I find.
Justified
Nooooo no no rebbi8548, feminists need dick AND pregnancy. That will put them back in their natural place as a woman. The womanly motherly female hormones produced by women during pregnancy makes them revert back to their natural state of being a robot only capable of loving babies, being feminine, and nurturing everything in sight. It's literally just biology 🙄
I want to kms after writing that
This is so ridiculous.
Though, not gonna lie, I'm pretty into the idea of a group of feminists hanging out in lingerie and partaking in whiskey and cigars.
Yeah that sounded LIT
Would destroy a Maga hats life to join.
Seriously.
Sounds good. Are we also allowed to smoke the devil's lettuce? Never liked cigars.
@@mynamejeff3545 make em Cuban. Then everybody wins!
Except for the cigars part (I never touch tobacco of any kind), that does sound kinda awesome.
@@sandpiperr use candy cigars
I was working on a campaign in 2018 and did in fact go “undercover” at a Republican fundraising and congressional campaign luncheon, and incredibly, no hunky MAGA man made me his female wife.
If you don’t mind, what was your thoughts on the luncheon?
WOW. Must have been an off day.
It was probably your blue Mohawk
@@off6848 "Man, I knew I shoulda stuck with green."
So he made you his male wife? 😏
This “author” doesn’t even know how hair dye works and she thinks she’s qualified to make political commentary in a romance novel?
Maybe it was the spray-on stuff from a can that Spirit Halloween sells? It's been a while since I used it, but I think you could wash it out.
@@emilyrln I used some green spray on dye for my hair once. That stuff stayed in for a few days. It washes out but it shouldn't in one go, depending on how thick the MCs hair was...
@@emilyrln I used that on my hair once to make it multi coloured and it took several washes to get it out completely.
you gotta bleach it first and THEN you put the dye in, right? i dunno, my hair is as spiky as a porcupine, i got a beard like cactus needles and sandpaper.
They do sell temporary wash-out dye, but if someone were actually changing their hair every few days they'd probably just wear wigs. Definitely not how most use dyes.
The snitching on the parents part falls right into the Christian rights’s view of patriarchy. Women, even adults,are the property of their fathers and must submit to their demands until the get married to their husband who they must also submit to.
@@JayaTea40582
Nah, that's just how conservative Christians are. All my teachers at school whose religion lessons I was forced to attend were super cool and chill. Accepting and smart. But my parents are bitter at how "liberal" Christianity has become and don't shy away from abusing me if I don't do what they want.
@@JayaTea40582 Notice how the OP said "Christian right" not Christians. Those modifiers matter.
This was absolutely what was taught in the fundamental Christian cult I left.
@@JayaTea40582 Hey look, you grasped the point of what I was saying, when one says the Christian right the person is indicating there's nuance. Nuance that you ignored when you pretended he hadn't said it was a specific type of Cristian he was speaking about.
Christianity or all the Abraham religions rather actually are crazy sexist.
And people wonder why all of the religions in that umbrella seem to have serious issues.
Conservative wish-fulfillment. I come from a conservative family and town and listening to your summary of this romance was almost surprisingly unsurprising. Spot on about the denial of being a possible minority, the denial of liberals having a range of perspectives and the insistence that only conservatives are well-intentioned but misunderstood.
I suppose that's the hallmark of extremism - the insistence of your human dignity and the denial of "others" sharing it.
and i loved how the book wanted so badly to be like "look!!! there are minorities here how could we POSSIBLY be bad"
@@bookshopvampire Don't drag the political extremists into this, who just hold views that are far outside the current political status quo and which doesn't equate "violent" or "hateful". What you're describing is simply a lack of empathy towards an out-group, which sadly isn't unique to conservatives.
I know plenty of people on government watch lists and they are nice people who understand they hold a minority opinion and that their ideological opponents aren't neccesarily evil.
I would only wash out green hair dye in a guy's sink if I *truly hated him* 😂 (Also not how hair dye works, but whatever)
Honestly if that's how hair dye worked I'd dye it all the time :P in this book's universe, you probably don't need to bleach dark hair to dye it brighter colours, either. The only thing that's utopian about this horrendous deluded book...
That’s what I was thinking too. Like what? 😂
Wash out hair die does exist though, still does not work that way, but maybe that's what he (liberty)meant?
@@andreaslind6338 That's like saying "Temporary tattoos exist so it's ok that the book said all tattoos can be washed off"
It's not the norm, by far, so it doesn't make since for someone to bring it up like it is unless the writer doesn't know any better
@@christopherjones8448 Wash out hair dye still doesn't wash out all in one go, which is why they added "still does not work that way". Liberty just doesn't get how hair dyes.
“Liberty Adams” either sounds like a hilarious drag Queen who has the amazing personality of Trixie Mattel
OR
A conservative stripper in a podunk Christian town that has entertained half the conservative Christian men in the town, including the pastor AND his wife. 😂😂😂😂
i would be overjoyed to find out if it were either.
"Rachel Tension" will always be the GOAT drag name to me.
@@LadyAstarionAncuninI'm a Butch Chastity stan
The title made me hope this was a Chuck Tingle book about a woman falling in love with a sentient MAGA Hat.
yes. I want this right now
- By Chuck Tingle
Chuck would never write something that hateful.
@@Mamaplusone it would be about the hat reforming and removing the stitching with erotica OR about how the hat is an awful selfish lover and gets dumped
"Rammed in the ass by the conceptualization of my future novel "My boyfriend, the sentient hunky badboy MAGA hat - a Chuck Tingle erotic love story" by Chuck Tingle" authored and coauthored by Chuck Tingle and Hideo Kojima
I'm noticing a trend in the comments about this book reading like it was written by a middle-aged man and while I also got that vibe, I make a point of not questioning someone's gender. If Liberty says she's a woman then she's a woman.
If the writer is Lory from The transformed wife I'll scream.
I don't think people are suggesting that Liberty is trans; more like that a cis man is shielding himself behind a female persona in order to excuse his rather hateful stance against feminism.
I somehow get the feeling that Liberty is an alias...
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter I'm not saying they're trans either. But the same principle applies.
There definitely are right-wing women who think this way. In my upbringing i heard “feminazi” dozens of times before learning anything about feminism beyond the earning of voting rights (good) and reproductive rights (evil). If i had gotten married to a like-minded person before escaping this bubble, i could be Liberty Adams.
My grandfather was an SA Nazi thug so a guy bolstering to live his conservative grandfather issues like its a badge of honor is probably the most disturbing part in this book for me
I never thought id get to a point in my life where i learned about grandpappy issues
South african?
@@annabellehe4307 The Sturmabteilung, or Brownshirts, were the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. They served as Hitler's bodyguards, provided security at Nazi Party rallies, and went around beating up Romani, communists, trade unionists, Jews, and anyone else the Nazis didn't like. After the 1934 Night of the Long Knives purge, they were effectively replaced by the more infamous SS.
I'm glad you learned not to emulate your grandpa.
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That said,, you're probably thankful that he wasn't murdered alongside his peers by the SS Nazis during thr Night of the Long Knives.
@@SpukiTheLoveKitten75 Uhhh..."be grateful your nazi grandfather didn't die or else you wouldn't be alive"? Weird statement bruh, pretty sure the problem isn't whether the guy had descendants but the fact he was a nazi
As an active member of the romance community who saw this going around on Twitter, I definitely agree it’s a solid candidate for Worst Romance Book, although she’s sadly not alone in what she’s pushing. Nazi and slave owner romances pop up regularly, and this isn’t even the first contemporary “across party lines” romance that heavily leaned toward the conservative side…there’s others from pretty reputable publishers who also drew controversy, so it’s definitely not unique to self pub. It’s rare to find political romance written well, because of issues like this, but I do like the Political Persuasions series by Emma Barry. They’re recently republished version of books from 2014-2015, and in a lot of ways, the outlook is reminiscent of those times. But the re-release also allowed her to address some issues that have changed in the intervening years, particularly regarding the third book, now called The One You Hate. It’s about a political staffers working for opposite political parties, and the woman is the Republican. She talks frankly and reasonably about her issues with the Democrats, but also develops further awareness of the ways in which she doesn’t fully fit with the Republicans, especially as a person of color. And Barry is pretty up-front in all her content notes about the story (at least the new version of it) culminating with the heroine leaving the Republican Party.
I feel if this got published, my trash can. 🙃
@@Saitaina well... It's called Trash Can, not Trash Can't after all 🤔
Honestly, I would love to watch a video about Dominic bashing the Nazi romance subgenre.
@@UmbraKrameri I'm not familiar with the subgenre as a whole, but let us not forget For Such A Time. I expect there's a fair bit of more inspie ones like that for maximum redemption points, but honestly who knows. Haven't seen the recent slave owner ones, usually the ones I see are at least published decades ago.
@@pandoraeve9751 I can't imagine that many people, except Richard Spencer and Stephen Miller, would write a Nazi romance where the Nazi is in the right and not on some kind of redemption arc.
The fact that he goes to her parents instead of confronting her as a grown adult capable of taking responsibility for her own actions really just proves that either a) he doesn’t respect or acknowledge her as an equal, or b) he was unwilling to face her himself. Either one is strong evidence that he is not suited to pursuing any sort of romantic relationship or partnership with her.
Isn't emotionally withdrawing a type of emotional abuse?
@@Younce_Daviesshe literally didn’t want to be around him though. like its not emotional abuse to go away from the weird guy following you
@@jadeamulet2339 I was talking on the dudes part. He withdrew as a punishment
"Liberty Adams" might be the most obvious literary pseudonym I've ever seen
Could it be one of Trump's sons working with a monkey and a typewriter?
@@elphabarichardson607 I wonder which was the smarter of the two... just kidding... it was probably the Monkey...
Eric, this just screams Eric...If Eric could ever put two words together, but maybe he had his new sister in law, the screaming Gargoyle pitch in...
I was thinking Nosferatu himself aka Stephen Miller.
Good God, the fact that the author doesn’t see how “the hunk” calling her parents to complain about her, isn’t the most Ken/Karen thing in the world explains this whole book. Even more, it was supposed to be this holier than thou move. W-O-W
Hunk McMAGA: I’ll report you to your original manager, your parents
@@milan4989 lmaooo Hunk McMaga 💀
My parents would absolutely laugh hysterically if some guy called them to complain about my behaviour. "She's an adult, dude, we don't babysit her." I'm disabled so people actually think I should "behave". My parents would be happy I was having fun. Plus, how did he get their number? My number was/is not the same as my parents'.
It’s a fundamentalist Christian mindset. Grown women are still treated as children under the supervision of their father until their father gives them away to a man.
@@milan4989 "hunk McMAGA sounds like a good civilian name for a supervillain. His enemy is guy Mchumandecency
Poor sweet Dominic we put him through such absolutely torture
HBOMBERGUY UPLOADED AGAINNN!!
ACTUALLY DOMINIC THIS BOOK CHANGED ME 😡 After I read this book I ran to the bathroom and started crying. I looked at myself in the mirror. I ripped out my septum ring and two nostril piercings. I threw all of my white foundation, eyeliner, and black lipstick into the trash. I deleted spotify. I erased my memory of The Sisters of Mercy concert i went to. I destroyed my phone to get rid of any pictures it had of me in trad goth makeup. I burnt all my black clothes and ordered a modest pink sundress. I ripped out my black box dyed hair and ordered a blonde wig. I killed my dog I named after my unholy crush on the vampire from TES 5 named Serana. I got married to the first man I saw at a Trump rally and we conceived our first that night. I gave up my hope to study ichthyology and became a preschool teacher. I go to church every sunday. I NEVER REFUSE TO GIVE MY OVERLO- I MEAN HUSBAND SEX. On the weekends I stay indoors and bake whilst bearfoot. I dont know what I was thinking. Im so glad I read this book and it reverted me back to my natural, feminine self controlled by my feminine hormones. I could never make it without my masculine, testosterone filled, alpha male. I am but a weak female who's body consists of bones and a uterus. Im so glad this book woke me up and put me in my place. LONG LIVE THE PATRIARCHY
I lost it at "I killed my dog..."
@@g.f.martianshipyards9328Whon Jick.
Damn you killl the dog 😢,
But Sisters of Mercy are cool :(
🤣🤣🤣
This was gold
This video is the sequel to Jenny's reading of "Trigger Warning" we never knew was coming.
YES!
trigger warning would have been better if it wasn't written by a family member. Johnson books were cheesy but not too heavy handed
@@woobiefuntime ? im kind of confused what point you're trying to make. 'the book would've been better if it hadn't been written by the author it'd been written by?' is that the take? because, duh? of course a book might be different if someone else wrote it. you could say this about any book. what is the point you're trying to make?
I’m not convinced the male lead is big enough to fill Jake’s shoes.
@@woobiefuntime no, they were very heavy-handed.
Please let this not become a genre, this very concept is HORRIFYING!
It's been a genre since the suffrage movement. It's just making a comeback.
Sadly, you just know it will.
It won't because you'd have to find Maga ppl who aren't illiterate...soooo
Romance novels are like the old woman's version of rule 34. If it exists there is a sub genre of romance novel that exists for it too. Heck that's double true if you want to count web comics as the modern day version.
I know that there are m/m Trump romance novels out there
I've spent my whole life reading fantasy and scifi books, but damn, I don't think any of them have been as out of touch with reality as this one
You made me hack up a chunk of my lung!!!! you win the internet today my friend! xxx
DAMN
I dunno, the lit-rpg genre is pretty good at this sort of thing
You know you've found something special when it makes Starship Troopers or Legend of the Blue Wolves look like a feasible prediction of the future.
The calling her parents strongly reminds me of during the Civil Rights movements and Vietnam protests parents would receive letters and phone calls from "helpful citizens" about what their rebellious little children were up to
It definitely makes me think the author is an older male
Also YAY for Jessie!!!!
Wait this actually happened?
@@familyberente1407 yeah, people would get phone calls and letters about the 'activities' their children were participating in. I think the theory was the family could shame them into not protesting
9:36 The old "creepy stalker can't possibly be a bad guy because the protagonist finds him hot" cliche will forever haunt this genre.
I want to know what real person would EVER think that. Seriously, who? Who?!
@@jaymartin8273 Really shallow people who'd probably date a cannibal just based on their looks.
@@jaymartin8273 Romance Authors apparently
@@hooting-ton5215 OK. Yes, but seriously! How shallow can you get?!
@@hooting-ton5215 romance authors who've apparently been lucky enough to never fear for their life :/
It's incredibly frustrating when they won't even take the time to understand what they're arguing against. Imagine if this author got into a collaborative project with someone who actually understood feminism and wrote Ricki accordingly.
'Isn't she going to be offended by him holding the door?'
'? No? She's a bit annoyed he's making such a show of it, but it's a nice thing to do.'
'Isn't she grateful he saved her from the crowd??'
'No because he's clearly been following her around and now she's afraid for her safety.'
And then, write him properly so hes not a fucking weirdo
I am always flattered when someone opens the door for me, man or woman or any gender, because it's so hard to see positivity anymore that it's the little things that count. No one should ever be offended by someone holding open a door for them. That's like being offended by someone saying "thank you" after to compliment them!
@@Barnowl65 It's only offensive if the guy makes a big deal out of what a gentleman he's being for a lovely lady like you and expects some kind of extravagant thanks.
Which is rare but it does happen.
@@KaiseaWings Yes, or when a man will hold the door for you but refuses to "let" you hold the door for him. I find that very offensive.
@@Shastaphirre worst if the practicality push you aside to open the door to show how much of a “gentle”man they are 🤔
Not only was the author obsessed with the word "female," but every example given of its usage read as deeply misogynist.
You mean, feminism *isn’t* cigars and whisky in a secret back room?! 👀 Why’d I sign up for this club then? 🙄
It's so funny that so much of anti sjw crowd hatred comes in part from certain people having unnatural hair colors. like "UGH, this person's hair is purple, that means they must be crazy!"
It is a weird thing to fixate on. It appears to be a Baby Boomer fixation that trickled down to some of Gen X--the ones who clearly didn't participate in the punk counter culture of the late 70s-early 80s.
honestly it probably comes from people who associate non natural hair colours with stuff like punk movements, which due to their upbringing they always saw as 'evil'
I think its more basic than that. Somebody having unatural hair colours isnt conforming to (their view of) society. And they think anyone slightly differing from the norm is to either be cast out or "brought back into the fold".
“That sheep has black hair!”, in a very literal sense.
My Silent Generation grandfather BUGGED OUT when my uncle grew out his hair in the '70s, because long hair meant you were gay. Of course, the '70s was the age of Castro clones and it was the sleazy heteros who had long hair.
"Her one cosmetic indulgence of black nail polish and lipstick"...Liberty that's uh...that's TWO indulgences.
"Oh and the hair. Green..." So three...three indulgences then...
...
...
It's like the Spanish Inquisition sketch but ya know...bad and wrong.
And not just wrong, but stupid too.
(Had to throw in the "Cat in the Hat" movie reference for good measure.)
Whilst the notion of the novel is troubling enough, the execution of said story is even more troubling. Clearly the author not only has never met actual liberals before, but has views so repugnant that she should disqualify herself as a member of the human race. This is right up there with Kevin Sorbo's film God Is Dead as straw man arguments.
@@From-North-Jersey I love how your response is just a ton of insults. You’re mighty triggered aren’t you.
Oh hey found the author
Judging by the quality of the prose, and the incessant use of "female" in place of literally any other word for woman, I'm betting the author probably hasn't met any women before either. It just reeks of white male stereotypes of women, and reminds me an awful lot of stuff I've seen written by young white men ostensibly from a women's perspective. All that seemed to be missing was the lead "female" character pontificating upon her own physical attributes.
I struggle to believe she’s met a conservative either. it’s all stereotyping , she’s either a far right or a clever far left person.
Also lots, and lots, of projection
I...kinda want to read the "arguing about socialism" part 'cus I want to see how horribly she got it wrong. Is it "cOmMieS" type of wrong or "socialists want everyone to live in barracks and eat only potatoes just to get a free bandaid" type of wrong. I'm both intrigued and horrified
If I'd have to guess, it's "Socialism is social welfare programs" kind of misconception surrounding Socialism.
tbf, usually "socialists want everyone to live in barracks etc etc" is also what they mean by "commies"
@@cam4636 Well, "commies" can mean anything from "god damn stalinists want to kill my family, take away my toothbrush and collectivize my wife" to "these pinkos are teaching kids racism still exists and that it is bad".
The strawman of big scary communists is nothing if not versatile. There's a wide variety of people who are progressive and left of the American center (which would be seen as a near sociopathic kind of right-wing in most other countries) and if you paint them as with the same red brush you'll end up calling a bunch of milquetoast liberals communist for thinking gay people deserve rights and legal protection.
I want to know too. I love seeing horrible misrepresentations of left-wing politics, and am genuinely curious what Liberty thinks socialism really is.
It'll probably be a third-grade level of understanding to the tune of "socialism is when everyone is equal", with some more logical flaws and ideological inconsistencies added in to make the feminist character look dumb and allow her to be schooled by the Alpha Male MAGAman(TM), who will show her the way of all-American capitalism, but I want to know just how much the author'll manage to butcher the ideals of such a diverse yet clear-cut ideology.
@@mynamejeff3545 Man, you're more optimistic than I am. I genuinely don't believe it could be even as simple as a twist on everyone is equal 😂
I don’t know how Dominic reads books with such unlikable protagonists. I could never do it.
I can deal with unlikable protagonists, I can't deal with authors who don't realize they are
@@cam4636 Yesss that’s The Worst.
I am with you there, I couldn't even get all the way through 'Picture of Dorian Grey'. I hit the point where he dumps a girl so brutally that she kills herself and had to stop. It is really hard to read a story you hate.
In a way, it's the terrible books that need to be read and known about. So that we can all know what we like in a book
So, reading a bad book can have some benefits even if it's making you realise why you love other books more.
@@JustAnotherPerson4U I understand where you’re coming from, but I just never made it to the end of any book where I loathed the protagonist.
"Most Trump lovers consistently abbreviate it to Antifa to avoid thinking about what being anti-antifascist makes them."
LMFAO, that's brilliant.
it's not like trump lovers are fascists! they just don't like it when the antifa get violent against people wearing swatikas and calling for white nationalism in pro-trump and qanon protests. which is a totally unreasonable thing to do. and being against that doesnt make you a fascist! and just because you have a lot of things in common with fascists and protest alongside them and let them be openly fascist around you and do nothing about it, and is actively against people fighting them, that doesnt mean you're a fash either! not to mention the antifa are way worse than them, they support throwing milkshakes at people 😱 imagine that
Yeah. It's nothing to do with the fact that they call themselves Antifa, as does the media who supports them and widely publisized their activities. ... On an unrelated note, I'm thinking of starting a movement / idea, called the Good Guys Movement, or maybe the We Never Do Anything Wrong Party. That way, I can be assured that my movement will only be full of good guys who never do anything wrong, because, DOI, it's in the name!!!!! ... I seriously hope that the basis of the Dom's comment and your supporting comment wasn't along the lines of what I just said as a satire, only you actually think that for real ... or else that would be incredibly embarrassing. ... Isn't it?
Dom does that
@@bemasaberwyn55 Does what?
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter does deez nutz
This video is the epitome of "I read it so you didn't have to." I salute you. Thank you for your service.
I told my girlfriend to buy this for me because I genuinely want to read this train wreck, but she refuses to give the author money on principle and told me to just pirate it. I love her
The target audience for this book ironically burns books rather than reads them
True.
Or bans them. But this book is probably on a shelf somewhere while the book about a black girl loving her curls was banned. Just another conservative moment.
I never thought Dominic would use the words ”worst romance story” about a book NOT by E.L. James
To qualify for "Worst [Blank]" it must fit the category :)
I'm as shocked as you are
Well that's simple
E.L James doesn't write romance. She writes abuse
There is also Blanka Lipińska doing a “hold my beer” at 50 Shades but that still means EL James is still indirectly responsible for 365 Days and its sequels so there you go.
Clearly the swine are flying
This sorry reeks of the author actually being "Mark"
A name that sounds like an American dream for a "Female" author
Clipart instead of an actual photo
Not a single "Female" perspective issue actually addressed
The White Knighting
The over use of "Female"
Seriously this book belongs in r/milady
It really does. All that was missing was the protagonist pontificating at length on the appearance of her own breasts.
The idea of the book having clipart for an author photo is too funny 😂
@@emilyrln right, like he doesn't even have a female friend. There are lots of bios with no photographs. But leaning into clip art is sus AF.
This...has got to be a satire, hasn't it? I mean, with the author calling herself Liberty and everything?
I'm not sure and that's what scares me the most
The name Liberty Adams sounds way too fictional. The only likeness he could find of her was clip art. The repeated use of the word 'female'.... I'm sorry even conservative women use the word 'women'. The idea that you can just colour your hair every day (without it being like costume hair paint). It's not like we've never seen an incel pretend to be a woman to spew shit like this.
@@jaymartin8273 Right-wingers have ruined satire by being such parodies of human beings.
@@SeanStrife Yeah, sad, but true :=(. Of course if a human didn't write this it might have been written by a cat, no dog would write this, they're too nice :=)
I'm going to tell myself that it's satire to cope with the fact that it exists
"Females?" Liberty Adams is a guy who writes very badly.
I mean Sarah J. Maas also uses Female in her books and she is a women
The book reads like the stuff I used to see from how conservatives view feminism. They act like Trump is a savior and feminists are crazy hateful people. The conservative perspective believes itself to be benevolent pious people who are the beacons of good, when it genuinely lacks perspective of empathy to anyone outside of their belief group. It's entirely fueled by ego and pride. The book reeks of the conservative fantasy I've seen before. That and the degradation of women just expressing themselves outside of the limited cookie cutter range they allow.
In short, its painful cringe and I salute you for slogging through this.
Yet this is also the exact way the left sees the conservatives as. Lefts never even see the conservatives as people. No feminist has ever given a shit what a conservative woman thinks or feels.
Best description I've heard
Fucking please, most feminists these days straight up hate men.
Even ignoring the misrepresentation of pretty much everything, conservatives seem to think, that you should be choosing your political position depending on how nice the people representing it are. And not on your actual beliefs.
I've actually seen this a lot. Especially in fictional right-wing stuff.
And that's why respectability politics and tone policing are still alive and well. Because apparently it's okay to ignore the messages made by marginalized groups because they're rightfully angry about their situation because they're not being 'nice' and 'unbiased' about it.
@@tarotsushima3332 Yeah. It's also always conservatives who see it as you loosing an argument when you get emotional over debating literal human rights, or your own existence as a marginalized person.
And all this is ironic: given these standards are ones that Conservitive's and right wingers.... Interestingly and tellingly: don't hold themselves to.
They can get as angry and unrespectible as they want and that's not a "loss" to them. Because they never play defense and the card say's moops and where good faith and intelelctual honesty are weaknesses to exploit.
It's a series of tactics I have observed since 2003.
@@kingofcards9 That statement wasn't a strawman hoss: it's a flat statement of fact given my every experiance with right wingers over the course of my life.
To a T: they all have the same bs arguments, the same bad faith tatics and the same suspect retorich; even my only right wing friend uses these dubious arguments and positions.
All your doing: is gaslighting. And more importantly: a strawman is when a debater misrepresents their opponent's argument as a weaker version, sometimes intentionally, and rebuts said version - rather than their opponent's genuine argument. And given my thesis isn't a strawman and you are falsely calling that thesis a "strawman": you yourself are the one engaging in and presenting a strawman.
ikr i don't care how "nice" people who want me to lose rights are their still @ssh0l3s.
OF COURSE the author chose the pen name Liberty.
Also, I just got to the part about the main character having green hair, and I'm calling it now that she ends the story a blonde with a Karen haircut, a Pandora bracelet, and mom jeans.
I just thought of the series "Glow" with the blonde/white/conservative/Christian/southern persona named Liberty Belle!
Your description of the girl riding off with a total stranger was particularly creepy for me because I just finished watching a video about an Oregon serial killer who killed girls foolish enough to ride off with him. All the Trump fantasy aside, that just struck me as so 1972ish...
"chooses to represent herself using clipart"
So, is a man. Not saying anybody who uses clipart's got something to hide, but I get some serious "ah yes, fellow women, this is what we SHOULD want" vibes from this.
The Clipart is the ideal woman, young, blond, blue eyed and a demure smile.
I think you mean fellow *females*. Other than that, no notes.
Not helping is the obviously fake/pen name of Liberty Adams
Sadly this abomination was indeed written by the housewife of a conservative Arizona lawyer.
@@quynlanvuorensyrja5484 I will forever live with the possible delusion that the husband published under his wife's name, simply because, either the wife used her husband and/or husband's friends as her only guide on how men speak, or a man wrote the male leads povs
that's hilarious that they include "the people at the maga rally were SOO nice!" that sounds almost word for word how karlyn borysenko described herself becoming a trumpist
I know!
Anyone who claims they changed their entire socio-political viewpoint just because someone was nice (or mean) to them, is either spineless or a liar.
It's like saying "I became a leftist because the people at the anarchist bookstore were so very nice". If I wasn't already a progressive and/or interested in anarchism, I wouldn't be at that bookstore in the first place.
@@mynamejeff3545 good point
Borysenko? What is she Belorussian?
@@Terranallias18 her husband is from Ukraine, and hilariously, was accused of being illegal in a debate she was having against other republicans XD
"she washes off the green hair dye and makeup" if your romance novel shows a character's development by having her do the same thing the Joker does in continuities where Batman dies, you might have taken a wrong turn somewhere
You win 🏆
Not to mention…nobody does this. Getting hair dye and lipstick off isn’t just about splashing water all over. And at a stranger’s house? Nobody of ANY political persuasion would actually do this.
After watching a Cinema Therapy discuss "Nice Guys", I can't help but think that this book is written by a "nice guy".
Love those guys!!
@@basicradical3581 i know youre talking about cinema therapy but i legit thought for a second you were talking about nice guys lol
Cinema Therapy is great!
Ayyy Cinema Therapy!!
A year late but _love_ to see another Cinema Therapy fan!
I would wonder if this was even written by a human woman. Given the excessive use of "Female" I'm thinking a Ferengi might be involved.
It's possible that someone took a mangled tape of David Attenborough talking about rhinos and ran it through some really bad voice recognition software.
i assumed it was a guy w a female penname tbh
HAHAHA! Yes indeed, was the writer even a hoo-man?
😂😂😂 I wonder if there's any indication in the story that the writer likes to have their ears caressed.🤔
No mention of gold pressed latnum, so who knows :=)
The author of this novel has never interacted with someone who wasn’t wearing a MAGA hat, have they.
Wait, I should probably say “has she” because the author would probably assume I was calling her Non-Binary.
So you are just assuming that it must have been a team effort?
Honestly you're probably still misgendering cuz the name, clipart and writing style makes me think this is a guy writing these
@@yruiz214 Yeah, honestly I wouldn't be surprised if this was written by a MAGA incel.
How DARE you criticize that FEMALE! 😂
Honestly, I get the distinct feeling it's actually a man writing a woman.
It just feels that way, it feels like a man writing a woman, or what they think a woman acts like. I'm a feminist, and this book just pisses me off.
Oof. This did not disappoint. I agree that it is kind of a fascinating view into the minds of conservatives. I'm Canadian so it's not quite as bad here, but I managed to marry into a family of radical conservatives and this does help me understand them a little better. Good thing I always wash off my green hair and black lipstick before family gatherings lol.
“Radical Conservatives” sounds like an oxymoron. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying it sounds weird
I saw "green hair" and my brain imagined you as the Joker and I just want to apologize for that
@@GabyGeorge1996 hahaha it does sound like an oxymoron.
Yep because empathy is so hard. No wonder racism is rampant in America
I'm somewhat surprised that they think we can simply wash the hair out. It's apparently always temporary daily dye? Can you imagine if anyone had that kind of time?
I honestly burst out laughing to the point my kids are looking at me weirdly. I'm a romance writer. I often worry if my books are going to do well. Then I watched your video and I realized my books can never be that bad.
Show of hands please: when you first heard the words "MAGA Hat Romance," who here thought "that wacky scamp Chuck Tingle's at it again!"
Chuck Tingle would never.
@@cakt1991 Now, "Pounded in the Butt by my MAGA Hat" on the other hand, does sound entertaining.
It wasn't the first but it was one of them!
Someone send him a copy so he can make a wholesome gay version of this shitshow!
"Pounded In the Butt by the Personification of my Hypernationalism"
I’m only a couple minutes into the video but I already have some thoughts. The author spends time talking about the “feminists” cosmetic choices and how they are indicators of her feminism. For Trumpists, this is true, Dom even mentions that it is “MAGA HAT romance” rather than MAGA romance. Every personal choice, for Trumpists, is part of their political identity and they cannot perceive of a world where it is not. Everything they do must be part of the ideology and this is why they’ve become so isolated.
Edit: I want the guy narrating the parts of the book where the author kept saying “female” as my ringtone! 😂
Wow, this makes those supernatural love stories about women falling in love with vampires, werewolves, dragons and what have you seem down to earth and realistic.
I have a feeling that Liberty Adams is actually three incels in a red cocktail dress.
Getting a root canal sounds better than reading this book.
At least you have the option to be asleep for the root canal
As someone who had to get one twice I can assure you this book is far more painful.
I've had a root canal, and it was actually one of the easier procedures I've had done. Mild discomfort from holding my mouth open for so long, but afterwards I felt great. That dentist was awesome. I've had ordinary check-ups more painful than that root canal, so I can say with absolute certainty that it is FAR better than reading this rambling nonsense.
@@strykerryder2346 same this was more painful lol
I had three teeth pulled once. I think I'd rather do that again without novecane than read this book :=)
random woman: my green dye job turned out nice
this author: she has green hair because she is FUELED BY RAGE
My hair is green. I was contemplating changing it up soon but I think I'll keep it green a bit longer now 💚
"DESPITE ALL THE RAGE SHE'S A GREEN HAIRED RAT CAGE!"
So...She-Hulk?
@@Katherine_999 mine is also green and I’ve intended to keep it green a while longer as it is, and this fuels that desire that much more. I lowkey hope green hair becomes the new “keep away from me” color
The author definitely gives me the impression that most, if not all, of her education comes from PragerU.
I was feeling insecure about a book I'm working on the first draft of, then I watched this video and realised that even if I fail miserably at every step, it is impossible for it to be worse than this... whatever it is.
I’ve never even heard of this book and it’s already not only dated itself but feels like a gigantic satire. And yet it’s sincerely serious in its own bullshit. Amazing.
Poe's Law in action!
Ok but cigars and whiskey with feminists sounds like a time for sure.
Count me in!
@kshamwhizzle 1 parts sweet mead mixed with 2 parts sour cranberry mead. I like tart.
I was thinking "yes please" at that point too
@@stefrozitis8621 cigars and whiskey with the girls
This just makes me imagine myself as a Voltron like robot putting my FEMALE defense shield up so I can fire my weaponized tears at my enemies. Pew Pew.
That honestly sounds like a badass Webtoon I would certainly read
Feminist Gundam! 😎
Well the "infantile cheer" line is actually accurate, just not for the reasons she intended.
As a romance reader, author, and blogger, this hits a special sort of way. Could there be an interesting romance story between a conservative person and a liberal person? Sure. Howwwwever, one side being 100% Good and the other side 100% bad, the "Good" side bludgeoning the "Bad" side with the "obvious" wrongness of their ways, uh, no. What I come away from this is indeed the true "hero" or lead of the story being the far right point of view. Which isn't what a romance novel is about. If both characters listen as much as talk, re-evaluate, and change, ending up in a place that is good for both of them, then there might be something. But what I see here? Nope. I don't see that working as a romance or work of fiction at all. Romance is a wide umbrella, to be sure, but this book sounds all wet to me.
I do appreciate the suggestion of books by Black authors that a reader may enjoy more, and would like to add the works of some notable Black romance authors: Piper G. Huguley, Beverly Jenkins, and Alyssa Cole.
Also bonus points for the Jessie Gender guest spot. Always happy to hear more Jessie.
"This book sounds all wet to me."
Probably because it sucked the moisture out of everything in its vicinity. Nothing is wet around this unwashed gym sock of a novel.
Ironic that the author's nome de plume is Liberty when she's encouraging her protagonist to suppress her individual style
Liberty's idea of freedom is, apparently, freedom to abandon one's desire for self-expression, freedom to conform to other people's values, and freedom to subjugate oneself to hunky guys.
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter freedom to be another cog in the machine
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter Yeah, I was getting some serious Dominique Francon/Dagny Taggart vibes from that, but even more poorly written.
True. XD
@@EphemeralTao
Ayn Rand's idea of romance is terrifying, which is reflected in her stories. Which isn't surprising given her blatant disregard for life in general, like her disregard for Marion Parker and idolozation of William Hickman.
I think the funniest thing about this is that conservative stereotypes about the left are so off, but going by how the author thinks, the left's stereotypes of the right are dead on.
Well..it's not really about politics. It's about two groups of people: People who really need to belong, and people who would rather not, but have some political and moral convictions in common.
No. It means that someone on the left found a particularly funny example of propaganda that fills all the preconceived notions of what someone on the right is like. Don't get me wrong, I hate Donald Trump and his fascist nonsense. I'm not trying to "defend" the right lol. But I find this kind of thinking very dangerous. Even as just a joke or a meme.
Not exactly. There are people who fit conservative's stereotype's of the left. It's just that at the moment the pendulum on which sides stereotype is more representative is pretty hard to the right.
@@one_smol_duck seriously, we should point and laugh at bizarre content like this all we want but if we pretend like the majority of the right or all conservatives are as delusional as this then that will just lead to more division. conservatives will get angrier and more hateful for everyone different from them as they get constantly made fun of and compared to a charcuterie for their views. and American politics will spiral further down the shit hole as it pushes the right into actually believing these extreme views more and more because they get harassed for them anyways so why not.
@@one_smol_duck The overton window's in full effect: you might still think you're on the right, but the dipshits shitting on your side of the fence (and honestly, I feel genuinely sorry for all of you that are going to have to clean the lawn up once the shitmakers get shoved off the face of the earth) stretched "right" so far that now you look center-right by comparison.
I'm actually laughing at the hair color bit. Unless it is hair chalk, or something similar. You cannot wash out hair dye. Even temporary. Temporary just means it doesn't last as long.
As soon as I heard the name "Liberty Adams" I just knew this had to be a man using a pseudonym. The fact that the author keeps referring to women as "females" only deepened my suspicions.
Yeah, I at first thought it might be a woman, but the overuse of 'females' and the 'like tears' bit convinced me otherwise, definitely a man
I'm still not sure, you'd be surprised at the amount of women who despise their own gender. Lots of pick-mes out there.
@@jaymartin8273 The author portrait is a cartoon, not a photograph, and I can't find any pictures of "her" online, so yeah I'm pretty sure it's a guy too
@@emmalynn877 Yep, definitely a man :=(
You can be misogynistic and think of yourself as a tool and object as a woman. I don't see why someone who is a woman couldn't think of themselves as lesser and "for his pleasure" in every sense if they've been conditioned most of their life to think that way. Heck, could even be Stockholm syndrome in many cases to defend it.
A super depressing parallel is many people who have been trafficked are often defensive of their captors or keepers. Like, tooth and nail fighting to stay in their horrible position. There is a whole training program to help people in that mindset and get them out of slavery because it's a super delicate process, specially if they were trafficked when young.
The fact that this is the first time I'm learning that Dom was actually born American.
@Kathryn Elizabeth 2:14
Same
Yeah, that one definitely made me do a double take. Wow
Totally. How did I miss that.
I knew he'd immigrated to California, but I didn't realize he'd emigrated to the UK prior.
This reads like someone wrote fanfiction about the real world because they don't like how it's playing out.
It literally is. She wrote conservative fanfic. This is what they think a good world would look like.
Hate to break it to you but, but there's a whole genre dedicated to rewriting real life events differently from how they played out called historical fiction.
I love your fanfic about the real world. I see a lot of that in the political comments.😉
Okay, but that can inspire _good_ stories from authors who know what they're doing. 😂
"It's so easy being a woman these days."
*sobs**
I know the authors of these kinds of stories always assume that their main couple get together and live happily ever after. I gotta say, though, that moment where it's explicitly stated that Ricki does the title drop "wearily" makes me think the canon end to her and Mike's story is that she realizes she finds his domineering ways frustrating, that she only started dating him because she felt bad about him getting doxxed, and then dumps him because she realizes that kind of relationship will never work long-term.
Interestingly, I think it indicates he has psychologically beaten her down and she's currently traumatized that she's simply now numb. I would like to think she eventually realizes his emotional and psychological abuse and leaves him.
Dom, you are out of this world. For the sake of people you'll never meet, you endure things like Fifty Shades, The Mister, Twilight and now this. I felt so triggered throughout the video that my attention oscillated like a ship during a storm 🤢
On a side note, thanks for reviewing Jordan Ifueko's Raybearer. Your video was so good that, immediately after I watched it, I bought both Raybearer and Redemptor to my best friend. She LOVED them, to the point of giving me rather long spoiler-free teasers of their stories every few days 😂
Raybearer was sooo good! I still need to read redemptor!
Agreed on Raybearer! I bought it based off his review (and that gorgeous cover) and loved it so much that I pre-ordered Redemptor the moment it was available. Ofc I loved it too!
I can't wait to see what Ifueko writes next.
Oh but now I need to know where I can find that review video. Patreon?
@@lamaface ruclips.net/video/vD-9G6OHW28/видео.html
@@lamaface I don't think I can link it directly but it's titled Raybearer ~ An African Inspired Fantasy Adventure and is right here on his channel!
Oops it apparently did post! Glad it worked!
I knew that had to be Jessie doing the voiceover. Her distinct “I am pretending to be a person who believes the BS that is being said right now” voice is so great. The sarcasm is amazing.