Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

183 reviews

amvera's review

fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Dysphoria, and Outing

Moderate: Medical content, Sexual harassment, and Bullying

re_oanslay's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Dysphoria, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexism, Homophobia, and Emotional abuse

cats33's review

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexism, Deadnaming, Outing, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Bullying, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Blood

antidietleah's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, Medical content, Sexual assault, and Bullying

sorcha's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Stalking, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Sexual content, and Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, and Eating disorder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Alcohol, Outing, Mental illness, Death, Drug use, Excrement, Deadnaming, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic

aaaashaaa's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Queer happiness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Lesbophobia, Rape, Self harm, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

abicaro17's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

2.75

So the actual story is really compelling about heartbreaking but, like most memoirs I read, is jumbled and feels unfinished. This book would have benefited with a chronological order format or at least naming the year each story was in. Page uses ages as time markers and as someone who has no idea how old they are, it was confusing. Page also throws in lots of random info that doesn't contribute to the story, like info about landmarks or anecdotes about childhood musings. The parts of the story that felt relevant and composed, like Page's tumultuous relationship with their dad or growth in relationships, added reflection and complexity that's desperately needed in this book. I wish I liked this more because learning about Elliot Pages story was so engaging (plus I love them!) but, this book was a little too all over the place for my taste. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Deadnaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Body shaming, Homophobia, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Stalking, Transphobia, and Violence

silverseaslug's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense slow-paced

3.5

This was a wild ride, though a rather disorganized one. It was interesting to hear Elliot tell their story in their own words (literally, as I listened to the audio book). Could have benefited a lot from some more structure, as it rambled a lot, but overall I was worth reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Dysphoria, and Sexual content

Moderate: Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Biphobia, Stalking, Self harm, and Misogyny

kaiad's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

While I appreciate how raw this memoir was, the structure was difficult to read. This book is nonlinear in the most dramatic way, jumping from his childhood to marriage to teenage years with no warning. 

Page also describes a dozen sexual encounters in detail yet most of the time we never hear about that specific person again or understand why it was brought up. There are also small writing style things that bothered me, such as mentioning “ketchup chips” over and over by name in one chapter or describing events in Canada’s history that didn’t feel very relevant to the story at hand.

Overall it’s a meaningful account of someone experiencing gender dysphoria from a young age but it was not my favorite book to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Transphobia, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Rape, Self harm, and Sexual assault

trinidaddy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Transphobia, Eating disorder, Cursing, Hate crime, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Stalking, Bullying, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Medical content, and Toxic relationship