My Review 
 I am glad this exists. A unique-yet-relatable perspective on pop culture, feminism and racism. Though the author often takes a singular work of pop culture and microscopically dissects it in a way that feels like it needs to be everything to everyone, she also acknowledges that no work should have to be that global in reach and that it is the state of the entertainment industry that prevents a range of perspectives and experiences from reaching a larger audience. 
 It made me squirm at times, which is a good thing. (Like, I should have a deep philosophical conversation with myself about my very white reading of The Help.) 
 Favorite Quotes 
 Writing bridges many differences. Kindness bridges many differences too, and so does a love of One Tree Hill or Lost or beautiful books or terrible movies. 
 I no longer want to believe these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them. 
 What I remind myself regularly, is this: the acknowledgement of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered. 
 I am quite content to be in my thirties, and nothing affirms that more than being around people in their late teens and early twenties. 
 We put a lot of responsibility on popular culture, particularly when some pop artifact somehow distinguishes itself as not terrible. 
 The [Sweet Valley High] books were the most familiar and resonant expressions of our angst and our fondest wishes for ourselves, the girls we wanted to become. 
 This is where we should start focusing this conversation: how men (as readers, critics, and editors) can start to bear the responsibility for becoming better, broader readers. 
 There is no collective slavery revenge fantasy among black people, but I am certain, if there were one, it would not be about white people, not at all. 
 This is the ethos espoused by people who believe in respectability politics. Because they have achieved success, because they have transcended, in some way, the effects of racism or other forms of discrimination, all people should be able to do the same. 
 As Syreeta McFadden noted, "Only in America can a dead black boy go on trial for his own murder." 
 Despite what people think based on my opinion writing, I very much like men. They're interesting to me, and I mostly wish they would be better about how they treat women so I wouldn't have to call them out so often.