Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus

6 reviews

breadbummer's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

Very funny and very informative! Probably not a book for boomers (my boomer parents, at least) with Loftus' consistent jokes relating to sex and/or diarrhea; I, being raised by the true god of older gen-z, the YouTube Poop, thought these were hilarious. I especially loved how this was all blended with the personal histories of the various hot doggeries and figures related to the food. Big bonus for the content warning section at the beginning, too!

My main critiques come from aspects that I'm not really sure can be helped. For one, a lot of jokes/silly comparisons/what have you are repeated multiple times throughout the book, which made me a bit tired of the "(whoever) wouldn't do (a specific thing) if they had (a specific weapon) to their head" (for now). Along with that, maybe it's just because I'm a midwesterner, but I was kind of appalled at how short the trip to the Midwest was. I mean, c'mon, not counting the chapter on Chicago, just Ohio and Wisconsin...? A huge swath of the country is being missed out on. But at the same time, I get it—Loftus has already been on the road for weeks eating variations of the same grotes ue food just about every day and is also

dealing with a breakup

, so I don't think it would be fair of me to complain all that much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexism, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, and Animal death

Moderate: Excrement, Sexual content, Stalking, Body shaming, and Murder

Minor: Mass/school shootings, Sexual harassment, Cannibalism, Fatphobia, Deportation, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Vomit, and Alcohol

raebelanger's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Misogyny, Cancer, and Eating disorder

corriespondent's review against another edition

funny informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic and Racism

Minor: Genocide, Misogyny, Alcohol, Eating disorder, and Vomit

joe_del's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Cursing

Minor: Police brutality, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Racism, Medical trauma, Genocide, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

rhiannonafternoon's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

“What they don’t know about me is that I’m a hot dog reporter with nothing to lose”
Throughout this book you’ll get a taste of Loftus’ journey to document hot dog history, the unsettling creation of the beasts themselves, and learn that the best hot dog stands have burned down at least once. She’s got great one liners, and reminded me that for some strange reason, I still know the words to the Oscar Meyer Wiener song. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Excrement

Minor: Misogyny and Eating disorder

imstephtacular's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic, Classism, and Cursing

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Racism, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Police brutality, Mental illness, Medical content, and Eating disorder

Minor: Excrement, Vomit, Violence, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief