Reviews tagging 'Islamophobia'

Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates

47 reviews

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

jsmith26365's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Violence, Gun violence, and Misogyny

Moderate: Racism and Islamophobia

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

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

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

sunday_evening's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Disturbing but necessary read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Stalking, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Pedophilia

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

priesty23's review

challenging dark hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Racism, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Violence, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Homophobia, Hate crime, Body shaming, Suicide, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, Mass/school shootings, Self harm, and Gun violence

mindintheskies's review

challenging informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

There's so much detail in this book that I didn't expect. I was triggered by a lot of the statistics and real, lived stories that were shared of women suffering at the hands of incels and incel-sympathisers. I guess that's the reason why it's taken me 4 months to get through it all. The book doesn't only cover examples on women, but marginalised communities, Muslim men and women and others. In fact there's a respectable amount of focus on Islamophobia and the discrepancy in media reporting of crimes committed by incels, and crimes committed by people belonging to the Muslim community. The book is on extreme communities of misogynists and repeatedly states that the vast majority of men don't hate women, without denying the fact that a large group of men who do hate women exist and are spreading that hate through online grooming, interactions, in institutions, the media and police covering up crimes, and so many other platforms e.g. YouTube on a daily basis. It's so scary that people actually believe women are subjects of hatred, especially when it comes from young people. It's given me a lot of knowledge and understanding of how these incel communities are set up, run and how they survive. The book also covers a chapter on men who hate men who hate women which I found really interesting. As expected there are a lot of examples that I've either experienced myself or know someone who has gone through the extreme examples mentioned in the book, so it gives me a sense of validation and acceptance that it's a reality that women live in this world, and that there's the awareness of it through this book and other resources similar. I have also listened to parts of the audiobook and listened to the interview at the end, which was very insightful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Sexual assault, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Xenophobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Stalking, Violence, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Murder, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Racism, and Rape