Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

197 reviews

perth_is's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

jillaay_h's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

bookhead420's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

Happy for Elliot getting to share his story. I’m sure the writing process was very cathartic. It was a tough read though - difficult to follow with time jumps happening all over the place with little notice. I found myself having to go back and read paragraphs over again to understand what was happening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

nerdydeathwitch's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

3.0

I don't want to critique a memoir because I feel like people have different goals when writing them. I think that this was probably written as part of the author's healing journey and in that way, I hope it provided him with what he needed and will provide other people on similar journeys with what they need. I have no doubt that this could be a 4 or 5 star read for some people. It just wasn't for me, perhaps because I am in a very different place in regards to healing from trauma.  If you are someone with complex trauma who still gets actively triggered, I recommend that you check out the trigger warnings for this book before you read it and have some self care or support lined up before you start. The narrative very much showcases the experience of complex ptsd (nonlinear narrative scenes that function like emotional flashbacks, self hatred and shame woven throughout the book, bouts of dissociation, and swinging between the extremes of social isolation, limerance, and codependency) but does so without any kind of acknowledgement of cptsd. I'm not sure if that was an intentional choice but without that additional context, the story feels incomplete. (Or, at the very least, like a missed opportunity for reflection and drawing connections beyond one's self).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Stalking and Gaslighting

Minor: Self harm and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

azaline's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexism, Excrement, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Outing, and Gaslighting

lzimmeade's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Lesbophobia

csoyars's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Transphobia, Medical content, Stalking, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

inkerly's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

4.0

3.9 ish stars

The memoir broke me. Literally. My heart would break in every chapter or my jaw would drop . Im not an Elliot Page fan but I enjoy movies he’s been in (Juno, Inception), and I like that he is one of the more relatable celebrities. Elliot has been through a lot in his 37 years of living and he was failed multiple times by the adults around him. I thought I would be reading a book about the inspiring journey of a transman  coming into his identity but what I’m left with is the story of a man who is still trying to pick up the pieces of his life and resolve undue childhood trauma while breaking barriers and staying true to himself. I think the fact that Elliot’s journey is still  “to be continued” makes this book raw and real, but at the same time reading it also felt like reading a sequence of disjointed events (all sad) that didn’t provide complete closure. Based on recent articles and photos of him I sense that his journey with his body dysmorphia is not completely over.  I support Elliot and hope that this new chapter of his life makes him stronger and better than he can ever imagine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

Minor: Death of parent

vixenreader's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

A structure based on the journey towards self-love, this memoir is deeply poignant, unflinching, and vulnerable, and a honest experience about how wilful ignorance and prejudice ultimately perpetrates the bigotry experienced by the trans community. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Be aware that there are themes of parental neglect, rejecting a trans child, bi-erasure, putting actors in harm’s way, the influence of the internet, tension within unhealthy relationships, unhealthy polyamory, heartbreak, threats towards trans and queer folks, nudity in film, erasure of queer identity, and being forced back into the closet.

barefootbetsy's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.0

This was a difficult read. What other reviews have mentioned is true, there's not a really clear linear structure. But there is a structure, it's just more circular or spiral-y in nature. The structure seems a little fuzzier than what most of us are used to, which is one reason why this is a memoir, not an autobiography.

There was also more explicit material than I'd been expecting, but it was all relevant, not gratuitous. 

All things considered, I'm glad I read it. If you're interested in Elliot's story then I'd recommend you read it, if you aren't interested in his story then you probably won't enjoy the book very much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail