Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates

48 reviews

meat_muffin's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Bullying, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Mass/school shootings, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Stalking

devynreadsnovels's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Racism, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Mass/school shootings, Stalking, Transphobia, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Murder, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Acephobia/Arophobia, Ableism, Blood, Body shaming, Drug use, and Police brutality

Extreme, graphic depictions of rape, death threats, etc.

hayyyyyden's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Stalking, Antisemitism, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Transphobia, and Violence

bookfriend8's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

This is a rough one, but so important to read. You get a real deep dive into the manosphere, which is literally just a massive community of men who will literally do anything but go to therapy. You start to realise how horribly ubiquitous and normalised misogyny is, and the internet is only making this worse. I can’t begin to fully explain the impact of this book. I’m glad this information made it to press; it feels much more real than when you read about it online. Anyway, the internet sucks, social media suck, (toxic) masculinity is good for literally no one, and we’ve really got to take this trend seriously, especially because it’s rotting impressionable people’s minds. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Misogyny, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Hate crime, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Racism, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Stalking and Suicide

pixelited's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Overall a very informative book on incels, PUAs,  and the MRM. I knew very little about these communities before listening to this audiobook and, as a woman, it was incredibly enlightening. However, I believe the author does an excellent job at not creating a festering of hatred towards the men that participate in these communities—instead there is psychology offered behind why these communities exist. I hope that none see this book as a means to create a hatred or distrust towards men, instead it shows the way that toxic masculinity hurts everyone in society—including men.

A great book for everyone to be familiar with so that genuine movements toward eradicating misogyny can happen for the benefit of everyone!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Bullying, and Sexism

Moderate: Racism, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Hate crime

Minor: Antisemitism, Homophobia, and Islamophobia

01_in_emilyon's review

challenging dark informative tense slow-paced

4.0

Honestly, this was a hard book to get through; not because it was poorly written or anything, but because of the subject matter. I definitely recommend going into it with quite a bit of resilience and maybe even have a second, more lighthearted book on the go at the same time to break up the heaviness.
I'm glad I read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Mass/school shootings, Racism, Sexism, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Rape

bananapie123's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, and Hate crime

cdubbs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Bullying, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Classism, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Suicide, Pedophilia, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Rape, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Violence

therestisstillunwritten16's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Misogyny, Bullying, Sexual assault, Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Gun violence

alexbalmer's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring tense medium-paced

4.5

This was a hard read. Not because of the writing style or even the length of the book itself (just shy of 350 pages 🤷‍♀️) but just the topic in general was constantly jarring. I had to just stop and close the book on multiple occasions and rethink many encounters with men in the past…

It’s something I was aware of throughout recent years, terms like “incel” and “manosphere” have popped up in memes/tiktoks but the size of the groups mentioned and the real life examples threw me off. To see how many mass shootings and other heinous crimes can be directly linked back to the ideology of these groups is shocking, saying how little you hear the word misogyny used in a serious, non-mocking way in the media. (Usually paired with jabs at “feminazis” and groups that are trying to HELP MEN😒)

STRONGLY encourage anyone who spends a decent amount of their lives online (and on any form of social media) to read this. Even if you’re a bit older and feel like you have a grasp on how to interpret content/news/facts online.  

One thing that I will say (not necessarily a complaint or a mistake) but when checking the Notes at the back of the book for references on certain facts a lot of the time it would be news articles. Nothing really wrong with that except that throughout the book it is said how the media is quick to jump to conclusions when they haven’t done much research. I’m guessing Bates has looked into each sources thoroughly. Maybe it’s my own preconceptions that make me pause before referencing Channel 4 in a debate?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Homophobia, Gun violence, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Hate crime

Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Minor: Islamophobia, Adult/minor relationship, and Biphobia