Maybe I still have some unresolved feelings about that. BUT they were acceptable because they were considered a “uniform.” Give me a break. I wrote an editorial as co-editor of our high school newspaper about how unfair the dress code was after I was taken to the principal’s office for having shorts that were a fourth of a inch too short while the cheerleaders were allowed to wear their much shorter skirts or “athletic” shorts. I want to go back and start my own rebellion.Īnd the unbalanced dress code… I actually did at least speak out about that when I was in school.
I look back flabbergasted at how we females just accepted that our bras would be snapped, our butts would be grabbed, or our breasts would be “accidentally” brushed. The author got the sexist treatment of female students by male students spot-on. It was hard to imagine while I was reading that there were NO adults in the school that actually cared about their students. There were a few things that I wish had been handled differently-things the film did much better-like teachers that weren’t completely useless. And it was refreshing to see a parent that wasn’t a typical book parent. I appreciated that the author gave us a male/female relationship that was positive but still not perfect, in a book about feminism. I loved Viv and her best friend Claudia’s relationship, as well as, Viv’s new friendship with Lucy. This well-written young adult novel does many things right: friendships, first love, and familial relationships. “Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to live in a town that doesn’t revolve around seventeen-year-old boys who get laid way too often just because they know how to throw a football.” Moxie, Jennifer Mathieu
Reading the book definitely brought back some memories of my own high school experiences as a teen in the early ’90s, as well.īut mostly reading Moxie just made me mad. The release of the Netflix adaptation (directed by and starring Amy Poehler!) finally pushed me to pick it up.
I grew up in a small Texas town where football was the main attraction, so Moxie has been on my tbr for a long time.
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