Well I just finished reading the book and I have so much to say, that I have decided not to say it because you would be here forever reading my post. I mean I would have to write an essay about it and we all know how much we hate reading essay type posts
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So this is what I got from her book.
HWGLOs=bad
BGLOs=good
Co-Ed GLOs=even better because they have lots sex with each other.
Ok seriously. My biggest issue with her is her lack of research. While yes, she has a disclaimer saying not all chapter behave like this, her writing is so generalized that no matter how many times she says this some people will still think that they do (I also don't believe that she truely believed her disclaimer either). If she really wanted to show a balanced side of(like she said she did) she would have observed another chapter. She wuld have looked at chapters at smaller school, chapters in the northern U.S, she would have even looked at chapters in Canada. My experience is the complete opposite of what she writes about I cannot relate to anything she says.
I also have issues with her writing style. Sure she used end notes, but even using endnotes requires you to mark your references. She did not do that in her book. I also don't like how when writing about these girls she made it sound like she was writing a fiction novel. Someone mentioned her using direct quotes when the girls were talking. Were you there? Especially the part when "Amy" and "Spencer" were about to have sex and Amy told him no. It sounded like she was in the room with them taking notes and recording the episode. I don't think so! I also have a hard time believing that it's all true. She has changed some many things, names or sororities, people's names, colours, dates, etc, etc that it makes we wonder if she did make it up, or maybe some of it. It's hard to take her seriously when her facts can't be verified. I thought journalists were supposed to only use facts that could be verfied even if they were to keep their cources anonymous?
I could go on and on. But really my biggest issue with the book was her research (or lack thereof) and her writing. If this was an academic paper, she would have failed.