Super interesting and fun to read. In the intro, the authors state that the "Young-Girl" is a concept that is not specific to any age or gender. This attempt to prevent themselves from appearing as misogynist falls short because the book is filled to the brim with gendered language and examples that are leveled towards women specifically. The concepts CAN just as easily be applied to men just as easily as they can be to women - but I would still be apprehensive about recommending this book to anybody who I don't know very well because it definitely reads as being misogynist.

Despite being written in the 90s, a lot of the ideas have become more relevant with the advent of social media and dating apps - platforms where users literally create advertisements for themselves and generate "value" that is expressed through some metric like follows or likes. "The young-girl is the crystallization of a certain quantity of labor spent to put her in accordance with the norms of a certain type of exchange. The form of her appearance, which is also that of a commodity, is characterized by the obscuring, if not the voluntary forgetting, of this concrete labor."

the erratic/unorganized writing style, and random quotes interspersed throughout made it read like a thread on twitter or 4chan or some other insane internet forum