Reviews tagging 'Lesbophobia'

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

5 reviews

mads_jpg's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Really interesting memoir about life as an autistic woman, I'm a big fan of Fern Brady's comedy and knew about her diagnosis, but was surprised to see this was the main focus of the book. Really well written and very funny, tempted to listen to the audiobook too since I spent most of this book trying to read it in her voice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Classism, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Alcohol, Grief, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Physical abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Sexual content, Addiction, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

wheelyautistic's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Brilliant memoir from one of my favourite comics. I love how honest and real Fern is about their life and how even now they are still working through their autistic journey of acceptance. This is a great book for anyone but particularly AFAB autistics or those who suspect they may be autistic. It isn't a self help book, far from it, but that's what makes it amazing because it allows a lot of people to relate to the difficult things they have also experienced as Autistic people. Fern inadvertly breaks the stereotypical autistic female mould and shows how being autistic can look outside of the typical white male presenting autistic representation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Ableism, Bullying, Death, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Abandonment, Alcohol, Body shaming, Hate crime, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Sexism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, War, Violence, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Excrement, and Police brutality

wishbea's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

An exceptionally raw, difficult to listen to book. It took me 2 months to finish it because I found it so overwhelming to read. Definitely check out all of the content warnings before jumping in to make sure you're emotionally prepared.

Like some other readers, I found Fern's attitude towards many of the women in her stories to be misogynistic and she often has negative things to say about people's weight that she doesn't reflect on, so be careful reading this if you are averse to that.

The most interesting part to me was at the end, when Fern talks about how she sought to reduce her meltdowns and identify the causes of them as well as habits that helped.

There is a shocking lack of resources for autistic adults in general, and less for autistic women. This will prove to be an important resource for autistic women, however Fern oftens speaks as if her experience is how all autistic women experience life and I think more of an emphasis should've been put on the reality that autistic people have our own individual struggles, some of us have meltdowns yes, but some of us have shutdowns and shutdowns are only mentioned as a throwaway comment. 

I think when you are contributing to an area that currently has a distinct lack of information available you do need to be careful about avoiding presenting your experience as if you are representing all autistic women.

I truly hope the release of this book inspires more autistic women to share their stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Sexual content, Ableism, Drug use, Abandonment, Blood, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Classism, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide, Vomit, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Death of parent and Excrement

dean_'s review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Addiction, Biphobia, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Classism, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Dementia, Grief, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Violence, Body shaming, Cancer, Bullying, Lesbophobia, and Police brutality

radfordmanor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Body horror, Body shaming, Classism, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Violence, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Medical trauma, Self harm, and Sexism

Moderate: Chronic illness, Grief, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Fatphobia, Ableism, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicide, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Pedophilia