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Lindy West: 'The Witches Are Coming' — And They Are Rightfully Angry

"For a long time, a certain set of men have called women like me 'witches' to silence and discredit us," West says. Her book explores misogyny, the #MeToo movement and growing up female in America.
Source: Beth Novey

Lindy West says it's really not fair to expect teenagers to inspire us. "They should just get to be kids, but unfortunately that's not the world that we have dropped them into," West says. "We did a bad job, and they have to shoulder a lot of fear and a lot of anxiety about the future."

West didn't call herself a feminist until she was 20. "It took me two decades to become brave enough to be angry," she writes in

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