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nothesunn's review against another edition
5.0
Solo me he leído la introducción porque el resto es un diccionario de insultos y palabras ofensivas que iré consultando mientras vaya haciendo el TFG pero no me lo voy a leer como tal porque me puede dar algo
scmaltese's review against another edition
5.0
I bought this book when I was smart-aleck teenager and, far from making me an insult filled jerk, I think it helped me become a better person. It may be trite to say it this way, but by taking the mystique out of so many of the epithets and insults that we use to hurt each other, reading this book took the "power" out of them for me. They became another subject for study. That "anything" is fair game for academic study was a revelation to me. It helped set me on the course to living a life free of intellectual taboos.
In the interest of full disclosure and lest you think I was a perfect kid: My brother and I with a VERY Irish last name did enjoy insulting each other around our house with the wealth of anti-Irish epithets. But again there was a lesson. Being white males in the south, we had never experienced discrimination. The fact that there are so many ways to insult the Irish taught me that we were only 75-100 years from a time when my family would have been mistreated as minorities in some parts of America. And I learned that the minorities subject to hate easily shift with cultural changes.
My recommendation: if you have a "bookish" teenager with the maturity to handle it, this is a fantastic book to open his/her eyes to how we are cruel to one another, how no subject should EVER be off-limits to academic study, and how fortunate he/she is to live in the time that they do where we make progress every day eliminating oppression and hate.
In the interest of full disclosure and lest you think I was a perfect kid: My brother and I with a VERY Irish last name did enjoy insulting each other around our house with the wealth of anti-Irish epithets. But again there was a lesson. Being white males in the south, we had never experienced discrimination. The fact that there are so many ways to insult the Irish taught me that we were only 75-100 years from a time when my family would have been mistreated as minorities in some parts of America. And I learned that the minorities subject to hate easily shift with cultural changes.
My recommendation: if you have a "bookish" teenager with the maturity to handle it, this is a fantastic book to open his/her eyes to how we are cruel to one another, how no subject should EVER be off-limits to academic study, and how fortunate he/she is to live in the time that they do where we make progress every day eliminating oppression and hate.