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4.34 AVERAGE
4.34 AVERAGE
Bates' exploration of the modern "male loneliness crisis" (gross) is telling and borderline horrifying. I couldn't count the number of times I held this book tight and thought, "What the actual ****?" Bates' investigation into various online chatrooms in the incel world glorify rape, violence and misogyny. The author skillfully links together these worlds which may appear distant (i.e., mass shootings and incel worlds).
I like the horror genre in general, but the horror of reality scares the pants off me. Thanks, Laura Bates for the nightmares.
I like the horror genre in general, but the horror of reality scares the pants off me. Thanks, Laura Bates for the nightmares.
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There are so, so many people that I just want to throw this book at. It‘s phenomenal. The best, thorougly structured overview of how online communities recruit and radicalize young boys that I‘ve seen so far. It‘s such a real and incredibly important issue, and as someone who spends a lot of time in online leftist spaces, this is a topic I only ever see get talked about in just these spaces - as opposed to my offline social circles, where barely anyone knows what an incel even is.
As someone who remembers the anti-SJW uproar of the time around 2016 all too well, it‘s been continuously concerning to me just how easy it is to go from seemingly harmless memes to communities in which the heavy misogyny suddenly isn‘t a joke anymore.
When Laura Bates offered all these different solutions in the last chapter, it gave me a lot of hope. She introduced me to many approaches that I‘ve never even considered before and that I intend to incorporate into my feminism.
I definitely will recommend this book to people around me in the future - it feels incredibly important to have a broader part of society know about these online spaces. Especially because these communities get a big part of their influence through actively isolating teenage boys from the rest of society - and that‘s even more effective when a large majority doesn‘t even know these online communities exist.
As someone who remembers the anti-SJW uproar of the time around 2016 all too well, it‘s been continuously concerning to me just how easy it is to go from seemingly harmless memes to communities in which the heavy misogyny suddenly isn‘t a joke anymore.
When Laura Bates offered all these different solutions in the last chapter, it gave me a lot of hope. She introduced me to many approaches that I‘ve never even considered before and that I intend to incorporate into my feminism.
I definitely will recommend this book to people around me in the future - it feels incredibly important to have a broader part of society know about these online spaces. Especially because these communities get a big part of their influence through actively isolating teenage boys from the rest of society - and that‘s even more effective when a large majority doesn‘t even know these online communities exist.
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emotional
informative
sad
fast-paced
Absolutely devastating and horrifying glimpse into the online world of misogyny that is not relegated to just online (and even if it were is absolutely vile).
Bates lays out the details and receipts for each part of the woman-hating community from incels to trolls to male terrorists. As an educator, I
found the chapter on teenagers especially fascinating and heart wrenching.
If you think misogyny isn’t real or isn’t that big of an issue, just take a peak at some of this book and reconsider.
Bates lays out the details and receipts for each part of the woman-hating community from incels to trolls to male terrorists. As an educator, I
found the chapter on teenagers especially fascinating and heart wrenching.
If you think misogyny isn’t real or isn’t that big of an issue, just take a peak at some of this book and reconsider.
challenging
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medium-paced
I listened to the audiobook of this and was completely invested in every word.
Listen to this book. Read it. Have it read to you. I don’t care how you consume this book, but consume it and tell others to as well.
Listen to this book. Read it. Have it read to you. I don’t care how you consume this book, but consume it and tell others to as well.