Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Part One
  7. The Twenty-First Century, Where We Live
    1. No One Wants to Go Out
    2. I Can’t Stop Listening to “Get Lucky”
    3. In Defense of Hipsters
    4. I Am Hungover Again
    5. I Don’t Know What to Do When I’m Alone
    6. Printers Are Evil
    7. The Exact Amount of Famous I Am: 35 Percent
    8. All the Different Ways I Have Annoyed Famous People
    9. TV Review: Shakespeare and David Bowie—England’s Beautiful Boys
    10. Why We Cheered in the Street When Margaret Thatcher Died
    11. The Rich Are Blithe
    12. How to Handle Other People’s 5:2 Diets
    13. BACON!
    14. The Rainy Jubilee—God Bless You, Ma’am
    15. TV Review: Imagine If You Didn’t Love David Bowie
    16. The Smells of Your Childhood
    17. The Unhappy Bus Tour Guide, New York
  8. Part Two
  9. The Feminisms
    1. My Muppet Face
    2. The Two Things Men Need to Understand About Women
    3. Women Keep Fucking Things Up
    4. I Propose Not Having Opinions on Women for, Say, Five Years
    5. A Woman’s Monthly Faultiness
    6. Stop Making Everything Sexy
    7. The Most Sexist TV Show in the World
    8. No More Page 3
    9. Let Us Find Another Word for Rape
    10. Perhaps I Don’t Believe in Redemption Anymore
    11. FGM—It Takes Just One Person to End a Custom
    12. This Is a World Formed by Abortion—It Always Has Been, and It Always Will Be
    13. Oh, Hillary. Suddenly, I Love You.
    14. I Have Given Up Heels. Like, Totally.
    15. The REAL Equality Checklist
    16. Why Can’t Life Be More Like a Musical?
    17. What Really Gives Me Confidence
    18. Women Getting Killed on the Internet
    19. How to Run a Half-Arsed Global Internet Campaign
    20. Slash & Burn—My Life with Cystitis
    21. On the Set of Girls with Lena Dunham: “She Is the Very Thing”
    22. When the Oscars Won’t Be Evil
    23. Mums Are Superheroes
    24. All the Lists of My Life
  10. Part Three
  11. The Future
    1. I Love Pete’s Car
    2. Reading Is Fierce
    3. Austerity—They Killed My Library
    4. 12 Years a Slave
    5. New York Will Save Us
    6. Syria: A Man on a Roof
    7. The Refugees Are Saving Us All
    8. We Are All Migrants
    9. Swarms
    10. We Need a New News
    11. Je Suis Charlie
    12. Paths
    13. How Wind Turbines Keep Us Free
    14. Russell T. Davies: The Man Who Changed the World, Just a Little Bit
    15. Coffee Is Killing Us
    16. TV Review: Elizabeth Taylor: Auction of a Lifetime—“Not So Vulgar Now, Is It?”
    17. The Frumious Cumberbatch
    18. The Poor Are Clever
    19. Ironic Bigotry—Because Only a Cunt Would Pretend to Be a Cunt
    20. How I Learned About Sex
    21. We Should Ban Homework
    22. To Teenage Girls on the Edge
    23. My Beauty Advice
    24. It’s Okay My Children Do Not Read
  12. Part Four
  13. Epilogue
    1. My Posthumous Letter to My Daughter
  14. About the Author
  15. Also by Caitlin Moran
  16. Copyright
  17. About the Publisher