Summary

Chapter 3, “Middle (Something Happens),” shifts focus back to the narrator after discovering Felix’s secret Instagram account. The narrator has decided that she is going to break up with Felix. She was already somewhat unhappy in the relationship. Also, not only does she feel she does not understand Felix, but she does not want to put the effort intro trying. She decides that she will wait to break up with him until after she attends the feminist protest in Washington, D.C., which is scheduled for the day after Trump’s inauguration. The narrator feels that protesting has, in many ways, become little more than a signifier of social status/participation, especially among white women. However, she feels compelled to attend the protest due to both social pressure and curiosity. Felix, meanwhile, has presented himself as generally apolitical and/or apathetic. He does not...