We had the chance to talk with Tersigni about that and about the issues that women, in the paintings and real-life, still have to struggle with. It's unfortunate to have to attribute this book such a low rating, but the whole thing feels like a case of half-hearted attempts at humour and political correctness.

Bitingly funny, heartbreakingly relatable, Nicole's take on the painted weary gives new meaning to 'art criticism.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Then a book agent reached out and asked me if I wanted to make that a book and I said, “Let’s do it!

I also noticed that in many of the paintings that you chose the titles describe an important couple, but the author just wrote the man’s name and referred to the woman as “his wife”. While the original thread felt like a fresh take on well-known tropes, the book just ends up feeling slight -- or worse, like a case of feminism bowing to capitalism.Add it to the shelf with books like Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit, Milk and Vine: Inspirational Quotes from Classic Vines by Emily Beck, and Awards For Good Boys: Tales Of Dating, Double Standards, And Doom by Shelby Lorman. It's not all perfect: sometimes the captions get repetitive since they're divided by type of men (the Mansplainer, the Concern Troll, the Comedian, the Sexpert, and the Patronizer) rather than mixed up and some are too vague and circumstantial to be funny.

It’s both comforting and vindicating to know that listening to men being shitty isn’t new, that our foremothers didn’t necessarily put up with it lightly, and that we can and almost indeed owe it to them to proclaim misogyny unacceptable, whether boldly through direct political action or more subversively through humor like this.

If you have 15 minutes to spare and humor yourself, then this is the book for you, I just wish it contained more. She enjoys historical romance/fiction best, likes contemporaries, action- adventure and mysteries, will read suspense if there's no TSTL characters and is currently reading more fantasy and SciFi. The only drawback of MtAiAaL is that this book, like much classical art in the Western canon (though I do use the term “classical” loosely, as more modern pieces by Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas are also included here,) is overwhelmingly white. Suppose you are not satisfied with any of the historical or fantasy dramas out there lately where all kinds of slander, deception, and politicking.