A review by lovegriefandgender
Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent by Laurie Penny

2.0

Laurie Penny will forever hold the title, in my mind, of the woman who changed my mind about abortion. She's an extraordinarily intelligent and talented writer, and there are definitely excerpts of that here. But. The aggression this book is drenched in is suffocating. It will never convince anybody who was already in favour of David Cameron's Conservative government that he was wrong for Britain, least of all because of a series of character attacks on people she doesn't like; she calls Kate Middleton, for example, cold and vacuous. She tells us that her friend is an enemy of feminism. The book as a whole comes across as a series of short, mouth-foaming screams into the void to someone who agrees with most of her ideals. How must it come across to a centrist?