Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

90 reviews

amelianotthepilot's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad tense

3.5

elliot page’s life experiences from growing up queer in the film industry and coming out to realizing he’s trans.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Deadnaming, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Outing, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, Self harm, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

chris_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Dysphoria, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Self harm, and Stalking

Moderate: Sexual content, Car accident, Pedophilia, Blood, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape

Minor: Excrement, Transphobia, Bullying, Pandemic/Epidemic, Drug use, and Religious bigotry

leahfoko's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Bullying, Eating disorder, Sexism, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Rape, Self harm, and Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Blood

morningsunwildflower's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

2.5

Elliot tells his story in an unchronological order, it makes it hard to follow. 
Make sure you read the TW if you need any, this book contains many of them. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Drug use, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, and Vomit

eni_iilorak's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad

4.75

It feels weird to rate someone's memoir but I want to give it many stars to counterbalance the deductions by other reviewers based on the book's structure.

The non-linear narrative was a clever and interesting choice. If it feels fragmented, that's exactly the point. It is also refreshingly different from the more typical year-by-year account. This is not a typical autobiography after all.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Bullying, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Stalking, Rape, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Moderate: Drug use, Outing, Religious bigotry, Vomit, Alcohol, Blood, and Excrement

Minor: Cursing and Deadnaming

carriepond's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

Pageboy is the memoir of actor Elliot Page. Although it is a celebrity memoir in the sense that it recounts some of his experiences working as an actor, including relationships with fellow actors and all manner of abuse from fellow actors or directors, it is not a sensationalist or "tell-all" type of account. Rather, the touchstone of Page's memoir is the toll that remaining closeted about his sexuality and gender identity had on all aspects of his life, making it difficult to forge meaningful relationships or to ever truly relax within himself, and taking him to some dark places-- self-harm, disordered eating, suicidal ideation.

This book has a lot of really gut-wrenching, sad moments and others that will piss you off. But there are also so many beautiful moments where Page describes being held up by those who loved and supported him over the years and the feeling of ease, euphoria, and completeness that emerged once he stepped into his truth. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Self harm, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Sexual assault, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Outing, Torture, Transphobia, Eating disorder, Homophobia, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Deadnaming

beatingaroundthebooks's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Stalking, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Transphobia, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexism, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, and Misogyny

Minor: Deadnaming, Death of parent, and Racism

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

I feel so bad about giving this book any less than 5 stars because it really is powerful and so important and poignant and has some really fantastic diction. But I just can't get over how confusing the timeline could get because of how this memoir was formatted. I almost think titled chapters would have helped? It was just hard to remember what was happening when and in relation to other things in the book because it jumped around in time so much.

I will say that that could be intentional because certainly navigating one's own sexuality and gender are not straight forward processes either, but it still took me out of the reading  experience a lot which impacted how I felt about the book for sure.

Otherwise, this book was fantastic. I always find memoirs like this from people in the public eye so fascinating because it goes to show how much they are experiencing life just like the rest of us despite the image we see of them everywhere. I know this doesn't mean much to him personally obviously lol, but I'm so proud and happy that he was able to get to the point where he could not only take the leap to live as his authentic self but to share a piece of his journey to that, including many not so pretty parts, with readers like myself.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Outing, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Medical content

Minor: Drug use

michelle_my_belle's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Misogyny, Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Body shaming, Drug use, Blood, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Vomit, Dysphoria, Medical content, Sexism, Transphobia, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Self harm, Sexual content, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Religious bigotry, Violence, Vomit, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Excrement, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Child abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Bullying, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Car accident, Lesbophobia, Murder, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Classism, Torture, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Cancer, Child death, Drug abuse, War, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis