PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksGilbert’s sustained close reading of the 1999 comedy American Pie is an especially thrilling study of how media shapes us. All I remembered from my single viewing, decades ago, was the sensual encounter between Jason Biggs and the titular apple pie, but Gilbert recognized the origins of incel culture ... [Gilbert\'s] approach has given me new tools to examine incidents from my own life, from how I internalized pop culture to more personal run-ins with misogyny ... Girl on Girl is hard to read ... But it also led me to pick up my phone, again and again, to text old friends. \'Remember this?\' I’d ask, sharing a picture of Jessica Simpson in her high-waisted jeans. Everyone did—and as we reminisced, all of us nearing 40, it seemed like we were finally ready to be angry about it.
Marisa Meltzer
MixedLos Angeles Review of BooksGlossy is not a takedown of Weiss, and as I read the book, I began to feel uncomfortable about why I wanted it to be ... Meltzer never implicates Weiss for her role in upholding the beauty industry’s values.
