It's one of those books that you have on the living room, ready to be read by anyone and surely creates interesting conversations! It’s such a universal experience that you have when people come into your space repeating your own words to you as they thought of it. I don’t usually engage with them anymore because my platform has gotten so much bigger so there’s a lot of them.

We've been getting trolled for ages, and now we have more power to speak against it-and we have the likes of Tersigni to archive this frustration. It’s a delightful small collection of scenes magnified out of classic European paintings, with Tersigni’s jaundiced captions over them.But one of the reasons why people are receptive to this is that they can laugh with us, and hopefully, they’ll be more aware going forward. The book is divided into chapters of paintings, collecting men’s sins into neat buckets: The Mansplainer, The Concern Troll, The Comedian, The Sexpert, and The Patronizer.

Probably the situation that I most commonly run into is with the comedian, the guy who thinks he’s so funny while all his jokes are very racist or sexist, and he gets really mad when you don’t laugh at them. There are also quality filters so sometimes I don’t even see them, but when I do they are very easy to ignore because they are very boring and unoriginal. It's unfortunate to have to attribute this book such a low rating, but the whole thing feels like a case of half-hearted attempts at humour and political correctness. But it does give them a voice because of the paintings themselves: their faces are so clearly reacting to the lines that I gave the men to say.I also noticed that in many of the paintings that you chose the titles describe an important couple, but the author just wrote the man’s name and referred to the woman as “his wife”.

Actually, in my book, the quotes are all things that the men are saying; the women are not really saying anything. Some we receive from the authors, some we receive from the publisher, and some we receive through a third party service like Net Galley. Yes, it was thousands of paintings: I would sit there for hours and scroll through, and my eyes were probably bleeding, but it was good. It’s a constant assessment and it’s tiring: all those little moments build up and people maybe don’t realize that, so that’s why they don’t intervene or say anything. The way Men to Avoid in Art and Life was born is a great example of how social networks can be allies of arts and culture, but how does a Twitter thread become a book?They're split into: The mainsplainer, The concern troll, The "comedian", The sexpert, and The patronizer.