No, not all of my subsequent blog posts are gonna be reviews. It's just something that I find fun and I just felt like adding more variety to my blog. Besides, I always try to include some feminist idea into the things I review, like what I did with Watch Dogs 2. This here I'm kinda debating if it's feminist since whilst it certainly is a topic worth discussing as a feminist, the subject in question is Megyn Kelly, a very polarising figure in politics as far as feminism goes. The topic of today's review is her book, Settle For More. It was published last year and goes for $30 USD. The book is essentially an autobiography and tells of her experiences in journalism and the various hardships she faced for being a woman in the politisphere. And let me just say right now, it's an amazing read.
To be clear here, I'm not exactly a fan of Megyn. Yes, she's gorgeous. Yes, she could be seen as an inspiration for young girls to chase a political career, but I don't really find myself adoring her. But after reading this, I have newfound respect for her, and I do plan to pay closer attention to her ventures. I'll touch on that later, but for now let's begin the review.
One thing that everyone should know about Megyn is that she's not a republican or a democrat. In fact, she's an independent. Now I know that independents can be obnoxious in other facets of politics, but Megyn is legit. She pretty much sides with whoever's making the better argument whilst still being level-headed. This largely comes from the fact that she was raised by parents with conflicting political views. She has voted for both parties, but I don't think it was any secret that she was very anti-Trump (as anyone should be). I'm not gonna reveal too much here since I want you all to enjoy the book for yourselves, but I will cover the more important things, specifically her time with Fox News and her famous quarrel with Trump.
Megyn, like just about any woman who's hung around conservative men for an extended period of time, has faced unwanted sexual advances from her coworkers. They came from none other than Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News. For anyone unaware, Ailes was a slimeball who isn't just guilty of creating the network in the first place, but has countless sexual offences to his name. His worthless life came to an end in May of this year, and as such, his record was hung up for all to see. The things he did to her were borderline traumatising. Hell, I felt damaged just reading the what she dealt with. And as a victim of daily sexual harassment (seriously I get groped like every single day), I can totally empathise with what she had to deal with, and I even started crying when I learnt of how he treated her. He grabbed her and tried to kiss her nonconsensually, commented on her "sexy bra straps", and even tried gaining sexual favours so she could get a promotion, which is something many women have dealt with when at work. What made things worse is that she couldn't report the harassment since she'd be the one going down, not him. This is a harsh reality for a woman. When she's been violated by her employer, or anyone for that matter, her word is never heeded. They only care about the man's reputation, as if that's the most important thing we have to worry about.
Now comes her relationship with Trump. Believe it or not, she and Trump actually got along well before his presidential run, which I'm sure is how a lot of people felt. Thing then fell apart when he started running. He began threatening her with slander and that he won't give her respect unless she cordially apologised to him when she wasn't even in the wrong. It's made even stranger by how she might have had an assassination attempt done on her. Before she went to moderate the debate, she drank some coffee [compliments of the man who drove her there] and she felt sick and started vomiting profusely and almost had to cancel. She carried on, but notified her lawyer of the incident. Things didn't get any better post-debate. Once it was all said and done, with many thinking that Trump made an arse of himself, I included, Trump's raving army of idiots sent death threats to her constantly. It got so bad that she brought a bodyguard with her family when they went to Disney World. It's also worth noting that Trump tried bribing her to say good things about him, even though if he was really that good to her he wouldn't have to force a good opinion from her. Even then, debate moderators are supposed to be neutral, so she'd be breaking conduct if she took a side.
The book isn't all about these horrific experiences. It includes her years spent as an attorney and journalist, which made me go from thinking of her as an amateur to thinking of her as a veteran. Trump's fan brats were giving the book harsh negative reviews upon its release, but the book nonetheless sold well. And I encourage you all to support the book legally. There's an eBook of it as well, and I'm sure it's free, but whatever you do, don't pirate it. Megyn and her book deserve the honest support. Regardless your opinion of her, she's proven that she's tough. And that's something that all women need to be at least once in their life.
