Summary Of Samantha Irby's Essay 'Bitch'

This quote comes from We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby, particularly the essay titled “Fuck It, Bitch”. Stay Fat.” Throughout this chapter, Irby discusses things like keeping track of calories in her “little notebook full of lies,” her first time at a Zumba class, what her expectations were of the crowd, and how this was not exactly the case once she showed up. Her description of the women she saw there can be seen in this quote, she expected to see picture-perfect size-zero models with bright smiling faces because that’s the idea being sold in the pictures. However, when she got there she was surprised by the crowd that turned up, even questioning out loud “I thought this was for attractive young people?” This quote connects