I was so excited to read this but then I got to the part where, after praising the Suffragettes for risking it all and the Rosa Parks movement too, she called Extinction Rebellion "enigmatic mobs" who "fetishised arrest." It's incredibly hypocritical and ignorant, considering the major part of Suffragette movement was getting arrested. After somehow finishing the whole book, I realise that Ashley has no idea how real protests work - she even, i think, admits in the book that she hasn't protested in person. She sounds incredibly self-righteous throughout the rest of the book too, as if she didn't also contribute to the greater problem. The tone of writing is almost patronising.

Overall, this is a book for the terminally online who can't fathom talking to someone face to face about serious issues that aren't what shoelaces AOC wore to the met gala. And this is coming from me, who some people would call a woke gay feminist gen z snowflake. I think Ashley desperately needed 5 minutes away from her phone screen. The points presented in this book are all thoughts I easily had myself after going to the park for a 10 minute breather maybe 5 years ago.