Lindy West's new essay collection reminds us why we're glad the witches are coming:
show. In the fantastically titled essay “Ted Bundy was Not Charming—Are You High?,” West picks apart society’s willingness to let men, including those who literally murder scores of women, be likable while women only get the chance to be likable if they are willing to contort themselves around the many demands of patriarchy.
In a time when it’s easier than ever to find pro-choice, pro-environmentalism, pro-labor messaging anywhere from presidential candidates’ platforms to Instagram, what makes West different? What sets her apart when the causes she’s long championed have hit the mainstream? The reality is that West helped shape our current discourse; even though she’s off Twitter, her voice is so interwoven with the way we talk on the platform that it’s easy to forget she’s not marinating in it all day.
West’s writing is spot-on not just in politics, but in style. She can be hyperbolic yet exacting—able to craft a long sentence into a fillet knife of an insult. But she’s just as likely to dispense a single “Cool!” or “Great!” at the end of a paragraph detailing one of the many horrors taking place around us and those perpetrating them.
But here’s the essential piece of the puzzle: West does not let herself be swept away by her own rhetoric. She’s adamant that things must change, not just the people in power and the structures which support them, but in culture, media and how we think about how we got here.
a bit of slack, few others she sets her sights on get the same treatment. But West’s not out to win over the other side. Instead, she’s hammering a stake into the cultural and political landscape.
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