given the rave reviews about this book, i expected to like it much more than i actually did. 

the core message of the book itself is important; we seriously should re-evaluate what we consider to be the standard, default person. science and data are not hard-bound facts but rather, malleable things that are deeply influenced by the bias that we put into it. that's a message that i firmly stand by and believe in, and the author provides a dizzying array of statistical examples to prove her point, whether it be related to public transportation or the workplace.

however, i do have several critiques of this book. first, the book is not intersectional and chooses instead to fixate on sex as a strict binary. for a book that claims to espouse the need to be more cognizant of biases, this oddly stood out to me. the whole bathroom spiel is giving terf... there's little mention of race nor sexuality either, and i feel like that led to a lot of missed opportunity within nearly every chapter. 

second, the author is painfully repetitive, to the point where i could start predicting her sentence and chapter structure nearly word for word. it felt like she was providing me a list of facts about sexism rather than a book about sexism, and that doesn't make for a particularly pleasant reading experience. idk, i've read better nonfiction than this that covers the same topic. i could see this being a starter book for a lot of people, especially given its popularity, but it's certainly not the best in its genre.