Reviews tagging 'Mass/school shootings'

Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates

101 reviews

bruhbruh's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

livcab's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Racial slurs, Racism, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Death, Sexual violence, and Bullying

Moderate: Islamophobia

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.

elwirax's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.0

The subject matter in this book is very important and well researched. It touched upon aspects I have not fully considered or researched and its call for a re-examination of the definitions of terrorism and recognising male violence against women as such, was commendable. However, I did find it be rather repetitive in places which made the book longer than necessary and I found the final segment discussing further actions to be very surface level.
 

It spoke a lot about white supremacy but scarcely in terms of intersectionality. A few examples were mentioned such as the Christchurch shooting and how the media tends to define terrorism based on the skin colour of the perpetrator i.e when they're Black or Brown it's terroism but when they're white they're "troubled". However, there was very little in the way of discussions on aspects such as misogynoir. While this may not be a central focus of the book, i think its important to discuss nonetheless. 

I don't want to say that this book made sweeping statements but at times it did make points and not support them with any evidence or sources. Additionally it would say things like "there are many examples of this" but didn't list any which was not conducive to a deeper understanding of the topic at hand. This also made it seem less research heavy at times hence, read like an overview rather than an in depth sociological analysis. 

Overall, I cannot refute the importance of this book in terms of gender studies. I would definitely recommend it for those who wish to further their knowledge in this area as well as online communities and their influences offline.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Racism and Sexual violence

Minor: Mass/school shootings

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

calicos's review

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Transphobia

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