And yet, after a woozy day reading all three aforementioned tomes back to back, it's clear that female empowerment is about as meaningful in these books as it is in Jane and Cosmo. The Bridget-Sex genre traffics in fiction while claiming to represent real life, and its greatest invention is that being a woman today is about incompetence and humiliation.

But, at least these books present women's pratfalls as endearing. In real life, no one realizes you're really each scene's heroine, and that your gauche manners, consequently, are delightful, not disturbing.