I read *that* GQ article and it left me thinking that maybe we should let women and girls do whatever they like every now and then.
The discourse around the online book community is relatively vast, so there are things that I don't touch upon in this video - the impact on the publishing industry or the use of book influencers by publishing houses is one example - but feel free to sound off in the comments.
Also, if you don't agree with my position on this that's absolutely fine. As they say in Italy il mondo è bello perché è vario.

Anywaaay subscribe, see you later, excuse the abrupt ending, my battery died. Literally and figuratively.

Other videos by me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6h0fQG0lKQ&t=7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj3k_LqFxdw&t=173s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe1DX7iFG4M&t=755s

The two "aesthetics" videos I referred to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31NDzvFtNnI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmMDikbHgTc&t=20s

Tiktokers I cited:
michelletrachtenberg
leighstein
quinthebooks

Chapters:
00:01 Intro
1:40 a brief history of the online book community
5:10 criticism: consumerism and objectification of literature
6:36 what is an aesthetic?
7:27 dark academia
7:59 reading as aesthetic
9:10 the dangers
11:12 the misogyny
15:16 leave women alone - and SUBSCRIBEEEEE

#booktok #reading #commentary