02121cam a2200289 i 4500 394479149 TxAuBib 20191118120000.0 191001s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2019030022 9780316449885 27.00 0316449881 27.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda West, Lindy. The Witches are coming [BOOK] / Lindy West. New York : Hachette Books, 2019. 260 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series Shrill, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've got one. West writes, "We were just a hair's breadth from electing America's first female president to succeed America's first black president. We weren't done, but we were doing it. And then, true to form-like the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing, 'If I can't have you, no one can'-white American voters shoved an incompetent, racist con man into the White House." We cannot understand how we got here-how the land of the free became Trump's America-without examining the chasm between who we are and who we think we are, without fact-checking the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and each other. The truth can transform us; there is witchcraft in it. Lindy West turns on the light. Provided by publisher. 20191118. Feminism United States. Male domination (Social structure) United States. Popular culture United States. Privilege (Social psychology) United States.