02349cam a2200325 i 4500 2357426010 TxAuBib 20200630120000.0 170314s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316348461 0316348465 (OCoLC)975489640 NNY eng rda NNY BDX YDX NZIPP MXB LTSCA NMC OCLCQ OCLCF MCR OCLCO NQS OCLCO CNTBC OCL OCLCA OCLCQ OCLCO TxAuBib rda West, Lindy, author. Shrill [BOOK] / Lindy West. First trade paperback edition. New York : Hachette Books, 2017. xi, 260 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Lady Kluck -- Bones -- Are you there, Margaret? It's me, a person who is not a complete freak -- How to stop being shy in eighteen easy steps -- When life gives you lemons -- You're so brave for wearing clothes and not hating yourself! -- The red tent -- Hello, I am fat -- Why fat lady so mean to baby men? -- Strong people fighting against the elements -- The day I didn't fit -- Chuckletown, USA, population: jokes -- Death wish -- It's about free speech, it's not about hating women -- The tree -- The end -- The beginning -- Slaying the troll -- Abortion is normal, it's okay to be fat, and women don't have to be nice to you. "Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea"-- Page 4 of cover. 20200630. West, Lindy Humor. Women journalists United States Biography. Feminists United States Biography. Women Humor. Conduct of life Humor.