Man Repeller

Man Repeller

by Leandra Medine

An interesting read on how women “repel” men in a book called Man Repeller by Leandra Medine.  The book is Medine’s attempt to tell her life (to date) and how she learned to drive men away (without actually trying to do so).  Medine is overweight from an early age, but she never sees it as a serious problem that needs to be addressed until her older brother tells her she is too heavy.  Being her ‘hero’, Medine took it to heart at age sixteen and changed from heavy-set teen to svelte eighteen-year-old, good-looking woman.  Medine, a graduate of the New School (a few blocks away from NYU), born and raised in Manhattan as a Jewish American Princess (her words, not mine), goes on to work at a high-end fashion store doing their social media and other marketing assignments.  It is then that she claims that she is a ‘man repeller’ and tells her stories of lost loves, never getting kissed until her late teens, and even ending her “drought” (her words not mine) as a virgin.  The book is a series of short stories and some comical pictures of her.  I laughed out loud a few times; otherwise, I sat back and learned how one Jewish American Princess (self-proclaimed) is preoccupied with looks, money and fame.  And yes, she did have to lose the term ‘man repeller’ as she entered marriage to the man she lost her virginity to a few years later. The book gives a pretty good bird’s eye view into the NYC high income teen/young adult world and all that goes with it.