Look in, look up, look out! Book

I read this book so i could learn more about women, since i so rarely hang out with them. it ended up kind of scaring me... first of all, i do think this book had a lot to do with the author herself. she was trying to make a book about how women view themselves and their bodies, specifically in the locker room. she said she studied this over years and that this is an ethnology, but it's a lot about herself, her own anorexia, and i do believe her impressions of everything else were skewed by that. i would have liked to see her interview people from other gyms than only her rich gym, which she is continually pointing out how expensive it is, and that everyone there is rich. yes, she interviewed the janitors. there is something in between though! it also would have been interesting for her to interview some gay women, she touched on people being afraid that someone was checking them out or that people would think that, but nothing more. surely, it wasn't only straight women at her gym all those years? she did do a good job of covering a variety of ages, from little kids to old women. according to this author, everyone in the locker room is a basket case. people are rude, checking out each other's size labels on their clothes and how much the scale says for other people. people are mean, thinking mean thoughts about people both skinnier and fatter than them, and the author encourages it. i used to just get changed but this book made me wonder what my fellow locker room women were thinking about me. it made me check out my own body, like my butt and stomach. it really made me paranoid! LOL! if this is how most women view themselves, it's really sad. made me glad to be a hermit!! so, i'm torn, it did make me think, and give me different views, but those weren't always good. if you're on the edge about life, don't read this, it's depressing! lol.