Katelyn’s Comments (group member since Jan 07, 2016)

Katelyn’s comments from the Our Shared Shelf group.

@Benarji. I was referring specifically to Hefner ("his business.")
Although there is of course a lot of similar corruption and abuse happening across the sex work industry.
You made a lot of assumptions about what I meant and to what I was referring in your response, none of which reflect my actual thoughts.

Also: terms like prostitute and prostitution are slurs. Let's refer to sex workers and sex work instead, as that is typically the preferred terminology of sex workers themselves.

Ana wrote: "On the topic of Hugh Hefner, I will say that I found this article to be fairly well written and eloquent.

Good riddance to an abusive creep

(Credit of my finding it to my fellow mod Katelyn!)

I..."

Thanks for posting Ana! I was just about to contribute.

There's nothing wrong with soft porn, or any porn for that matter, and the fact that Hefner produced a magazine like Playboy isn't necessarily problematic (imo.)...

But... he was horrible to the women in his employ and personal life by all accounts. And I think it's fair to assume that those behaviors are reflected in his business as well.

... what other books like it should you add to your list?

We invite members to send in their recommendations for books that are similar to Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body.

Please send me (Katelyn) a direct message with your book recommendation with a short explanation of WHY it is similar to Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (genre, subject matter, writing style, etc.).

As I receive recommendations, they will be added to this post.

**Self-promotion will not be tolerated and will be reported to Goodreads**

**This is a trial run of this kind of thread, it may become a staple post for each book if it's a success!**

If you liked Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, you should also read...
-None of the Above
-Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?

In the interest of encouraging OSS meet ups around the world, we invite you to post some discussion questions here that might be helpful in promoting meet up discussions about the book!

This thread is for questions ONLY. Please do not post responses to the questions here, they will be deleted. You can respond to questions in other relevant threads.

Then go ahead and share what YOUR meet-up had to say about the book in the Shared Meet-Up Experiences thread.

Hey everyone!

We want to hear from those of you who have attended OSS meet ups for Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body in your area about what you discussed, your thoughts on the book, and other ideas you covered this time around.

Feel free to share here!

(This thread will be monitored. We ask that you focus on the ideas proposed in group meet ups, rather than individual ideas. Thanks!)

Emma wrote: "Katelyn wrote: "Hey everyone!

We want to hear from those of you who have attended OSS meet ups in your area about what you discussed, your thoughts on the book, and other ideas you covered this ti..."

Sure, any kind of meet-up is appropriate. We're hoping to increase the amount of ideas we're sharing with one another about each book, so that would be equally valuable.

Hey everyone!

We want to hear from those of you who have attended OSS meet ups in your area about what you discussed, your thoughts on the book, and other ideas you covered this time around.

Feel free to share here!

(This thread will be monitored. We ask that you focus on the ideas proposed in group meet ups, rather than individual ideas. Thanks!)

**Assuming this is of interest, we'll be starting this same thread for each book, so those of you attending meet ups might want to take some notes to share with everyone moving forward!**

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Hi Joelle,

Thanks for the recommendation. In the interest of organization, we do not allow individual threads for book suggestions. You can suggest it for the group by following the directions here: How to Suggest a Book
Additionally, you can suggest it in relevant book lists in the book suggestion folder. Those lists are based on subject matter, genre, etc. You can start your own list if you don't see one for a particular subject or genre already, but please check first, as we will remove duplicate threads.

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Diana wrote: "I was surprised Emma would choose to do this movie. My only hope is that they changed some of those awful anti-feminist messages when they remade it. But the cartoon sends a terrible message to you..."

I think if you take the time to read through the entire thread here, you'll see a number of very well-thought comments about why people interpret the story differently than you do. In my capacity as moderator here, I also ask that you be careful about your language as it comes across a bit patronizing. We can disagree without being disrespectful to one another, and that is something we value on Our Shared Shelf.

Hello Tessa,

This is not a group to promote your book. You can, of course, mention your book, but if your post consists of nothing other than a description of your book, a request for reviews, a special offer or giveaway, etc., please do not post it. Any self-promotional comments will be deleted by the moderator.

Best,
Katelyn
Moderator, Our Shared Shelf

Hey everyone, just a reminder that there is a thread to discuss feminism in Disney in general here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Please keep this thread on topic, specifically feminism in Beauty and the Beast.

Thanks!

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I'm doing some clean up of the Book Suggestions folder. There is another thread devoted to male feminist books with more responses here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I suggest you post any other recommendations there so we can keep the folder easy to navigate.

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Hi there,

I'm doing some clean up in the Book Suggestions folder. The purpose of the folder is to make it easier to find books of a specific genre or subject. As this is a list of many books on different themes, I'm going to lock and archive this thread. I suggest you post your recommendations either in one of the other general category threads, or according to topic by book in various threads so readers can find specific books that they are interested in!

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