Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women by Lizzie Skurnick

1 review

pages_with_a_preoccupied_prin's review

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

I loved this book. It was a bit of a slow read but I was taking it an essay at a time. I loved the way etymology was applied to words that are used against women at frequent intervals. I found it really liberating to see my reaction to some of these words in writing and realise that I wasn't just 'overreacting'. One of the many that really resonated with me was for the word 'Tomboy'. "Tomboy is someone else's ideas about my gender. Tomboy assumes I want to be a boy, implies boys are better."

I would highly recommend this book to everyone and anyone. For women that were told their reaction to pretty, or Tomboy, or fat was 'too much', to the people that use this language and need to understand what impact words can hold. Get out there and get reading.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism, Misogyny, Cultural appropriation, Rape, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Fatphobia, and Classism