Misconceptions About Misconceptions

There's a lot I hate about book reviews, even positive ones.  But one of the most annoying things is misconceptions people get about a book.  Take this one for Chance of a Lifetime on Goodreads:

- How could he think he could never be a cop again? He'd have to have worked with and met many female police officers, some probably further up the hierarchy than him? 

  Well gee that's a great point, except we covered this very thing in the fucking book!
DR. PALMER:  Well, you could always try rejoining the police force.
STACEY/STEVE:  I sniffle but don’t say anything. I could try to go back to the academy. Maybe I could make it through and become a beat cop again. In another five or ten years I might even make detective again. That hardly seems fair.

So yes, he did think about becoming a cop again.  It's not that he didn't think there are female cops; it's that he'd have to start all over again and he's not sure he wants to go through all of that.  And this might be a slight thing if it weren't a focal point of the dude's review.

Well then there's this wonderful nugget of brilliance:

Maybe it is because I'm a man of a similar age and background to the character, and I know of nobody like us able to work in large organizations who would still say the world has been totally tilted against women for the past 2-3 decades. 

Women still make 70 cents for every dollar a man makes!  All the sexual harassment claims of late? So what the hell are you talking about?  Oh yeah, things are totally equal, especially in "large organizations."  🙄

Isolated loner type men, maybe they would. Rural type men, maybe they would. 

Well I am an isolated loner type man, but really rural type men would think the world is tilted against women?  Oh, yeah, rural type men are so sensitive to gender equality.🤣

Anyway, it's annoying to get a 2 star review because this dumbass didn't pay attention to the book and then blames me for it and jumps to a bunch of stupid conclusions.

Or all of this from that recent nasty review of Girl Power:

"You abandon your family or loved ones... and sleep with lots of random people you just met."

Only Elise (Mermaid) sleeps with anyone else. Allison (Velocity Gal) comes close but stops herself.

"The married character decides to just have someone tell his wife and child - who he is constantly terribly missing and loves immensely (supposedly) - that he's dead. Rather than go home as a woman. Let that idea sink in for a minute."

Well maybe not everyone else has as understanding of a spouse and child as you apparently do. And it was the government that wouldn't let Allison reveal her true identity, which was the same for all four of them. Though Allison eventually does it anyway after a night of binge drinking.

"You give up all control of your life and your previous identity and just ... give up pretty much."

Robin's a minor so she can't legally sign contracts or anything. That's a pretty well-known legal fact. So how could she run a multi-billion-dollar corporation? Obviously it would have to be placed in trust with someone else. With no wife or kids or other family it falls to Jasper, the executor of Robin's estate. And like Batman Begins the actual management would actually be done by someone else.

As for why Robin goes to high school it was largely so Robin could go socialize with kids her own age. She's supposed to just putter around the house all day?

"A geek falls in love (in 3 lines of dialogue) with Batman and Batman is like... sure, come to my house and we'll work out together... because... because... yeah I don't know"

You must not have been paying much attention then. The geek (Melvin) is being picked on by bullies and Robin breaks it up with her fighting skills. She reluctantly allows Melvin to go home with her because she feels sorry for him and helps him train to defend himself.   

Again you're giving me 1 star for a bunch of shit you just didn't understand or misinterpreted or didn't pay attention to.  It's so fucking annoying being punished for someone else's dumb mistakes.

Yeah, yeah, it comes with the territory.  It's still irritating.