Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

40 reviews

stephanieluxton's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Incest, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

Minor: Pregnancy

The whole first section is about being sexually abused. The rest of it is about daddy issues, sex, toxic relationships, bad breakups, and modern day feminism.

itsreirei's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

2.25

I've read "The sun and all her flowers" first and either there was some development in the writing or the topics were just more interesting to me in that one. 
Had I picked up "Milk and honey" beforehand I would've never touched another Kaur-collection...sorry....

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Misogyny

emilieee_'s review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Incest, Rape, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Pedophilia, and Child abuse

stormeno's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, and Rape

Minor: Grief and Body shaming

sophia_m1tchell's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

2.0

This was very hard for me to rate considering that I don’t read much poetry. I understand that Kaur was being honest and reflective about experiences with sexual trauma/assault. However, I really didn’t appreciate nor enjoy reading about it considering that at the end of each poem theres ‘no hope’ to get out of these situations. Like it seemed that these rapists had no accountability for their actions and got away with it. It just made me feel very empty and defeated (poetry is suppose to bring you emotions… however feeling depressed after the end of each poem isn’t exactly something I’m wanting here ykwim?). There were too many poems on cruelty and trauma instead of women empowerment and self-love (which was the reason I actually picked up this collection of poetry in the first place). Overall, I guess it’s okay but I’m probably not going to read more of Kaur’s work. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Grief

kittykatruin's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexism, Dysphoria, Rape, Misogyny, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Addiction, and Adult/minor relationship

panickedhonking's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Child abuse

skyfluff8's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Sexual violence, and Misogyny

collie98's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Rape, Misogyny, Incest, and Sexual harassment

michaelion's review

hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

2.5

This came out when I was in high school and even then people were making fun of her. Recently I saw a video of her reading a poem (the one on page 101) and thought it was kinda cute and mostly corny, so I figured like the Brits say "Wot IS all this then?" What's all the hullabaloo, what's all the fuss about, why don't people like her? I should find out for myself.

So anyway I get it. Very corny, very basic, I still think it's a waste of a tree and a waste of paper. But not necessarily a waste of ink... Plenty of the pages are pretty moving. Sometimes basic is resounding and renowned for a reason. Now that I've read this though you can really see the influence she and others like her have had on pop culture in general. Is that good or bad? The answer is yes. (But mostly it's bad.)

I don't like making reviews like this but here I goes. The "poems" aren't really rhythmic or present with the flow of things I usually associate with the term "poetry." Like, yes, arguably a lot of poetry is like this but I personally don't like that. Just because you put several line breaks in something that in any other case would be considered a run on sentence I'm supposed to clap for you? And there are some instances where even when there is a line break it's still a run on sentence? No punctuation at all girl? Not even a comma? An em dash? A semi colon? It's confusing. Pick a struggle.

On a positive note, there's kind of a storyline here. This book couldve been improved if the "poems" weren't placed in the same theme in random order but in a way that better connected them, because it's clear many of the poems are about different people, not just one ex or how that ex connects with a parent or family member. All those people have different feelings and memories attached to them. But alas. Rupi Girl, you'll never be Sandra Cisneros. You'll never be Mitski Miyawaki's Magnificent Musical Melodrama now available on Spotify.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Gaslighting, Self harm, Mental illness, Racism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, and Incest