Bitch? Please!
How Nice Girls Can Succeed in a Bitch's World
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Megan Munroe’s Bitch? Please! delivers a saucy communiqué empowering nice girls to kick passivity to the curb and instead use the strength of inward kindness to shake the foundation of the bitch’s empire. Bitch? Please! provides compelling answers to questions that nice girls often ask, like: How do I handle confrontation with the bitch in the next cubicle? Why does the bitch always seem to get what she wants? If being nice is a good thing, why do I feel like a doormat? From practical how-to-succeed scenarios to laugh-out-loud lessons, this humorous yet poignant dialogue has something for every woman. A unique mix of rhetoric, real-life revelations, quizzes, and food for thought, this is the perfect road map for your journey to create a successful life in a nice-girl fashion.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Although the finer points of etiquette, such as which fork to use at a dinner party, may today be deemed petty, good manners can make life more pleasant for everyone. This is the "nice girl" philosophy that Munroe supports, and if readers can get past the Cosmo Girl patter and seven "Nice Girl Test Time" quizzes, they will find a surprisingly sophisticated appreciation of the virtues of virtue. The modern nice girl has apparently evolved from someone who doesn't put out to a woman who has healthy eating habits and safe sex, who embraces her wrinkles and spends wisely. Conversely, Munroe attempts to but never quite succeeds in defining what exactly a bitch is these days. She tries to convey a significant message with a superficial, sometimes cloying style, at one point quoting Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a Harvard historian, and the Real Housewives in the same passage. Munroe may believe that her target audience can only be reached through references to celebrity culture, but this seems to contradict her goal of raising her readers above this level of thinking. Ultimately, her appeal for a return of feminine graciousness is a welcome effort, even if it reads like a People magazine version of Miss Manners.
