Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates

4 reviews

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.

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

sadiefc's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Colonisation, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Stalking, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

This book contains unedited, real life quotes and messages of deeply disturbed, violent, racist and sexist human beings.

hannahdotmay's review

informative reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual assault, Mass/school shootings, Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Sexism, Self harm, Racism, Mental illness, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Antisemitism