Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Jaws by Peter Benchley

18 reviews

alicesayshi's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

A fun read that unfortunately suffers from being a product of its time re attitudes to women and POC. 
Ellen Brody is a great example of r/menwritingwomen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Racism

draven_deathcrush's review against another edition

I got hit with infidelity again and I'm so mad!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Death

Moderate: Racism and Misogyny

puffball's review against another edition

I’m a huge fan of classic sci-fi, so I’m fairly used to sexism of misogyny and can typically move past it. But this author has a police detective complaining about how small a dead woman’s breasts were. He finds a person who’s been maimed and killed by a shark, and his literal first thought is how small and flat her breasts are. Absolutely not. Immediate dnf. Oh, and the detective had been reading a book that had gratuitous mentions of rape for literally no reason. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Rape, and Misogyny

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

The book is weirder about women then It is about sharks which is saying something. It is weird about race but not in a way that’s coherent on way or the other that I could really go into it but if you have sensitivity to slurs there’s slurs about Japanese people and lesbians in the latter chapters. 

The book tries to have some conversation about toxic masculinity and the performance of it that the book is too sexist to have a coherent message about. For a book that comes across as respecting the main protagonist for being a cop it does have conservations about corruption and classism in tourist small towns including in politics, media and police. 

It’s an interesting experience because a book you go in assuming is man vs nature type of book it is more man vs man. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Misogyny, Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Fatphobia, Sexism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Rape

rockyc5's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

Moderate: Sexual content, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Vomit, Cursing, and Racism

cabbagecakes's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Animal death, Child death, Infidelity, and Death

Moderate: Homophobia and Gore

Minor: Rape, Misogyny, and Racism

perthalus's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

Fashioning a mean grin like a knife, Jaws is a jagged toothed beast that carves through each page with ease. It perfectly balances character driven drama with its unforgivingly gory horror. Each page feels grimy and dirty with peak summer heat, so much so that you’d think you could smell the fish guts coming from the words. I can see why this is a classic, and why Spielberg chose to adapt it to screen, I would too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Classism, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Vomit and Toxic relationship

Minor: Rape, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, and Sexual assault

emilystewart's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Misogyny

Minor: Rape

mcotton2479's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Misogyny and Rape

Minor: Racism, Homophobia, and Child death

bearystarry's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.25

I literally only finished this book so I could rate it because I hated it so much. The only interesting/good parts were the parts about the shark, everything else was a nightmarish mixture of racism, misogyny, homophobia, and weird rape fantasies. And also some copaganda and animal torture/cruelty for fun, I guess.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual violence, Body horror, Gore, Sexual content, Body shaming, Infidelity, Misogyny, Alcohol, Animal death, Classism, Cursing, Death, Racism, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Sexism, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Antisemitism, and Fatphobia