“Given what Anna describes as negative experiences with men she seems to have to some extent demonized men in general.”

Doctor I’d have to agree and as a woman who supports women’s rights and women’s wrongs, this is an absolute no for me. 

We know the men have menned, that’s a fact of life. It happens every hour of every day in every crevice of life. But there’s a difference between being able to acknowledge trying to navigate a men’s world as anything other than a man is often really hard, versus blanket blaming men for bad decisions likely linked to the fact you spent your teen years and young adulthood raw dogging life, trying to manage mental illness with no therapy or pharmaceutical assistance. 

AMT willingly checked herself into a psychiatric hospital in 2021, her marriage was ending, she was self harming, and her eating disorder was destroying her body. Men Have Called Her Crazy is AMT’s story of her time in the hospital as well as her “breakthrough” moments of when all the men in her past have wronged her and lead her to the breaking point of 2021. There’s a level of phoniness I couldn’t get past. AMT openly admits throughout this memoir that she was not emotionally or financially stable enough to exist independently from the men she time and time again went after (or fell for) and ending up allowing them to support her because she was unwilling or unable to do it herself. 

You will not find one ounce of accountability in this “breakthrough” memoir, it was trying to be Girl Interrupted and loudly feminist, while ultimately being a manic pixie girl nightmare and a collection of juvenile tumblr posts with some editorial polishing.