Awards for Good Boys
Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom
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4.5 • 17 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“Shelby and her art are extremely my shit. You need this book.” —Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
“The rare Instagram-turned-book that actually works.” —Jezebel
A wickedly funny illustrated look at living and dating in a patriarchal culture that celebrates men for displaying the bare minimum of human decency
Surely you’re familiar with good boys. They’re the ones who put “feminist” in their Tinder bio but talk over you the entire date. They ghost you, but they feel momentarily guilty. They once read a book by a woman author. (It was required, but they thought it was “okay.”) And of course, they bravely condemn sexual harassment (except when the perpetrator is their buddy Chad).
This book explores why so-called and self-proclaimed good boys are actually not so great, breaking down our obsession with celebrating male mediocrity and rewarding those who clear the very low bar of not being outwardly awful. Through clever illustrations and written vignettes, Awards for Good Boys makes literal the tendency to applaud men for doing the absolute least and offers hilarious and cathartic cultural commentary through which we may begin to unravel our own assumptions about gender roles and how we treat each other, both on and offline.
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This pithy extension of comedian Lorman's Instagram account combines illustrations with essays to comment on dating and living among the "good boys" a label Lorman uses to refer to "the praise we heap on men for meeting the barest of minimums, for avoiding being the Out-right Worst." Her simple line drawings depict medals and trophies inscribed with such accolades as "Isn't openly threatened by your competence" and "Interrupts you to make it clear he's still listening." These are accompanied by Lorman's signature wide-mouth faces, mostly of men, but occasionally of women as well, whose exclamations feed into this concept of "goodboydom" ("It's up to us goodboys to tell other people just how good we are!"). While Lorman's illustrations take center stage, the written vignettes add personal background that her fans will appreciate: the time a first date disappeared without a word within minutes of meeting her (she thought he had ducked back inside the coffee shop to "take a nervous poop"), and the time she and a group of friends were catcalled, yet she was "respectfully spared" when one of the harassers pointed at her and said, "oh... not you." Lorman's Instagram followers will enjoy her commentary on the more subtle side of misogyny.
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