Encyclopedia of School Humor: Icebreakers, Classics, Stories Puns and Roasts for All Occasions Book

For most of my life I've been a misogynist whilest being unaware. Until I hit my second puberty and period cramps started feeling like kittens scratching in my womb, my mood swings increasingly unexpected and frequent, and since I began started working in a male-dominated and oriented environment, that I started rethinking about the struggles of being a woman. Then I became the armpit-hair growing feminist...(Just joking, I was just a keyboard activist who couldn't find her epilator. I have since resumed my grooming habits, and am proud to say I am a mere-feminist.)

For that, I would like to sincerely apologize to my genderkind: I'm sowwie. Not for the lack of shaving, I mean.

Before reviewing the book, I will preface this by introducing myself as a 24 year old young Asian woman on her second job of her career. I believe in equality, but incline more towards equity. That is to say, I hold a somewhat 'traditional' view on a woman's role in society.

My father used to tell me when I was a kid: 'You're a girl, so you have to do the housework. There's no point in me giving you an education when you'll be someone else's daughter in future.'

Thanks dad, then why do you always bug me about giving allowance now that I have a job! Why do you suddenly pull the you're-my-daughter-so-that's-your-duty card?! HUH?! HUH?!

Anyway.

I think any woman who needs help manoeuvring in society and the work place should read this. Having read Sun Tze Art of War in Mandarin, I find that this book has just the right amount of stories to illustrate how to apply the stratagems. If you are one of those who think that equality at the workplace means calling out on misogynism and/or reject your femininity (ha ha, fe-me-nee-nee-tee, what a mouthful) to be equally successful, this is not the book for you.

What this books implores is for women to discard the notion that we have to act and speak like men in order to move forward in the workplace. Using the attributes unique to us, we can climb the ladder in red carpets and glass shoes.

The writer did not set off to write a one-size-fits-all book nor elaborate much on the examples she had provided. Therefore her illustrations may come off as skimpy or too general. However, there are merits this method. Had you read enough books on strategies and social theories, you will know that there is a certain mind set to be in before embarking on the reading journey.

More specifically, the answers can only be found upon reflection of yourself and in relation to your own environment. You will then be able to create a path that works well for you, and you, only. That's the only homework the reader might have to do.

I personally found this book very empowering. I started to see myself as a working individual rather than obsess over the demarcation of one gender and the other. Quite motivated, I made an appointment with my hairdresser last weekend. Because battle gear, goddammit.

There, I gave the instruction to the hairdresser, 'Make me look like a professional, Tino.'

'What?'

'Make me look respectable. I will no longer stand for sexism at the workplace and out of it.'

'If you want to pit with men, your hair must be as short as theirs, you know? A woman can't look pretty and be taken seriously.'

'You sir, obviously do not know the Art of War.'

The haircut was shit, but you get my point.