Summary of Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was raised in Berkeley, California, by a pair of pot-smoking hippies. My parents rebellion was buying Coca-Cola by the case and going to Disney on Ice. They wanted to have an emphatically equal partnership.
#2 I had a father who was stereotypically masculine, but he was also very sensitive and liberal. He always treated me like a princess, but he also made sure that I was a roller-skating, creek-jumping princess who kissed banana slugs.
#3 My mother was what many men called a strong woman. She was not a tyrant with her son, but she also did not care much about feminine appearance or presentation. She did not work out or diet, and she thought it was silly for women to punish themselves for aesthetics.
#4 My father was always trying to teach me lessons about the world beyond my own childhood. He would criticize the Victoria’s Secret catalogs and emaciated Calvin Klein models, hoping that the boys at school would see past my not-so-secret pimples and tomboy style.

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 07 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669381822
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Tracy Clark-Flory's Want Me
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was raised in Berkeley, California, by a pair of pot-smoking hippies. My parents rebellion was buying Coca-Cola by the case and going to Disney on Ice. They wanted to have an emphatically equal partnership.

#2

I had a father who was stereotypically masculine, but he was also very sensitive and liberal. He always treated me like a princess, but he also made sure that I was a roller-skating, creek-jumping princess who kissed banana slugs.

#3

My mother was what many men called a strong woman. She was not a tyrant with her son, but she also did not care much about feminine appearance or presentation. She did not work out or diet, and she thought it was silly for women to punish themselves for aesthetics.

#4

My father was always trying to teach me lessons about the world beyond my own childhood. He would criticize the Victoria’s Secret catalogs and emaciated Calvin Klein models, hoping that the boys at school would see past my not-so-secret pimples and tomboy style.

#5

I was always interested in sex, but I didn’t want to hear about it from my parents. Instead, I looked for any chat room that seemed even vaguely adult. I began looking for the boys, the men.

#6

I was 13 years old when I started a website and email newsletter, which gained dozens of subscribers. I talked my drama teacher into choosing Romeo and Juliet as the school play, and I was cast as Juliet.

#7

I began experimenting with different Come-Ons to see how men would react. I would say things like, Wanna lick whipped cream off my naked body. or I can tie a cherry stem with my tongue. Men would respond with eminently more visceral descriptions of sex: spreading and pulling and opening and bending and shoving.

#8

I was introduced to the world of cybersex and late-night HBO shows, which turned out to be the documentary series Real Sex. I was more interested in the men in the audience than the women onscreen, who seemed like typical adults to me.

#9

I was not even remotely tuned in to the historical fact that white people had often treated Black culture as a form of rebellion. I was focused on my own exceedingly narrow sense of oppression, which I then understood only as a vague notion of boys being mean.

#10

I had two concerns when I started at Berkeley High School: being pelted with eggs and stuffed into a trash can, and meeting the finest guy in school, who was nicknamed FIGIS.

#11

I was fifteen when I started exploring the explicit porn sites of the era. I had never been to a party, but I went to one with eight high-school-aged guys and was invited to share a bottle of rum with them. I was warned about Trashy Ashley, but I didn’t listen.

#12

The dilemma of desire is what girls face when they are faced with the risks of sexuality, which are largely perceived as physical and material dangers, versus the pleasure and connection to their own bodies and to others through their desire.

#13

I was 15 years old when I found out my dad had been visiting a website called Perfect10. com. I had never heard of the website, but I instantly knew what it was all the same. It was a procession of blond young women with flowing mermaid hair, creamy unblemished skin, and perfect freaking tits.

#14

I was a fifteen-year-old girl who found her father’s porn stash. I was horrified, but I was also excited to learn what men wanted. I imagined myself in the images, posing against a desert landscape, narrowing my eyes at the camera, and tossing my flowing hair around my shoulders.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I had a relationship with a boy from the East Coast named Snow. We met in my sophomore biology class, and we became inseparable.