Book Review: Everywoman: One Woman’s Truth About Speaking the Truth by Jess Phillips

 

Jess Phillips wants to be seen as a warrior. A truth-teller. A fearless voice for women. But Everywoman is not the voice of courage, it’s the voice of the shrill, performative class of modern feminism that confuses grievance with strength and emotion with truth. This book is a self-indulgent political pamphlet dressed up as a feminist manifesto. It is not "one woman's truth about speaking the truth." It’s one left-wing MP’s attempt to moralise, posture, and position herself as the heroine of a world where every woman is a victim and every man a potential oppressor, unless he votes Labour, reads The Guardian, and agrees to perpetual guilt. Phillips talks about honesty, but what she delivers is a weaponised subjectivity, a narrative carefully curated to smear her opponents while shielding her ideology from criticism. Her “truth” is not universal, it’s tribal. And if you’re not in her tribe, you’re the enemy. She claims to be for the working class, but parrots the exact same talking points that have alienated those very people: mass immigration is good, traditional values are bad, masculinity is dangerous, and anyone who disagrees is probably a bigot. She dares you to disagree and then screams when you do. The irony? Jess Phillips claims to fight for the voiceless, but she has made a career out of shouting the loudest. Real courage would be to break ranks and admit the obvious: the modern Left has betrayed women. It’s selling them out to appease trans activists, undermining motherhood, ridiculing femininity, and allowing rapists into women’s prisons, all in the name of “progress.” But Jess doesn’t go there. Because truth, real, hard, uncomfortable truth, isn’t her concern. Her concern is power. And Everywoman is just another cynical attempt to grab it, cloaked in the language of liberation. This book is not about speaking truth. It’s about enforcing orthodoxy. It is the voice of the regime. Verdict: A smug, self-congratulatory screed from a politician who mistakes loudness for leadership and ideology for integrity. File under: Feminism, Fourth-Wave, Delusional.