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Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates

20 reviews

jeggert10's review

challenging dark hopeful informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Murder, Rape, Misogyny, Hate crime, Sexual violence, Sexism, Gun violence, Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Racial slurs, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Islamophobia, Mental illness, Abortion, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Antisemitism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Racism, Stalking, and Xenophobia

anniesher23's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This is incredibly well researched and written. The bottom line is I think that every parent or person who wants to have kids should read this. My takeaway was, my kids aren’t having access to the internet until they have formed their own opinions and learned media literacy. And I got really stressed out about all the parents who wouldn’t know to do that. 

I can’t say I was really surprised by the information in this book. I feel like I see “manosphere” ideas in watered down forms just in my day to day interactions with men and in the media. I was a little disappointed that Bates didn’t address this or really acknowledge that there is a wide spectrum of woman-hating, and that the subtle forms need to be addressed too. Maybe that’s a different book, though. And Bates does consistently show how easy it is for men and boys to fall into the influence of the manosphere, how prevalent women-haters are, and how much influence they have over people and institutions of power. 

The point I appreciated the most was Bates’s argument that the manosphere is incredibly shrewd, organized, and coordinated to attract the most members and exert the most influence it can. There is a huge amount of privilege that the manosphere and white supremacist movements get in being seen as the fringe lone wolves, and it’s not something we afford Islamist terror groups, for example, as Bates points out. She rightly argues how dangerous it is to ignore this when it comes to women-hating movements. This was the point I hadn’t thought about before, and I think it’s something we need to talk about more. 

I can’t decide how I feel about how much compassion Bates has for men and boys being seduced by the manosphere. She constantly mentions how these people are struggling and we need to address that. She’s right and we do, and I get that her aim in this is to attack this problem at the source. That’s all fair, but women and gender non-conforming people struggle too, and we haven’t created these massively coordinated and destructive movements; we’re the victims of them. So when most of the compassion in this book is going to the perpetrators, it gets annoying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Racism, Rape, and Sexual harassment

laurareadsbig's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Racism, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Antisemitism, Domestic abuse, Violence, and Gun violence

shermansays's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, Stalking, and Gun violence

Minor: Abortion, Homophobia, Death, Mass/school shootings, and Antisemitism

anniestonebarger's review

dark informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Antisemitism, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, and Mass/school shootings

pich's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

the structure could have been organized a little differently, but other than that, this book was, while unfortunately true in its content, a good insight on the encompassing issue of actions and thoughts towards women/feminine attitudes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Mass/school shootings, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Racism

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

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

archiedh's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Undeniably disturbing and at times just downright hard to read but SO SO necessary and informative. I urge anyone who’s considering to reading this book to do so and for those who have already read it, I urge you to recommend it to others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Gun violence, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Antisemitism, Homophobia, and Islamophobia