Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

10 reviews

felixmarauder's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.25

I was prepared and not prepared for the ending of this book and the author did a good job of pulling feelings from me. But the constant fat shaming didn't age well and bothered me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Child death, and Body shaming

aely's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Cursing, Sexism, Cancer, and Misogyny

chaoticnostalgia's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Classism, Bullying, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Death, and Child death

Minor: Physical abuse

gayelfboi's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

Revisited it now as an adult and though it’s a moving story with beautiful writing at times, I was thrown off by the amount of fathobia. It’s much in the context of kids being cruel to each other but it was unexpected and went unchallenged. Other than that I really enjoyed it  now and as a child even though it punched me in the gut when I first read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Transphobia, Body shaming, Homophobia, Bullying, Classism, Fatphobia, and Misogyny

Minor: Sexism, Car accident, Cancer, and Death of parent

shays's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming

wolfiegrrrl's review

reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.0

Bridge to Terabithia is a story about two kids bullying everyone they don't like, choosing fat people as their prime target. For the majority of the book, I kept hoping that this was going to be part of their character development, but the resolution is weak. Instead of learning to actually care about other people's feelings, they only give characters who are suffering other hardships a pass while continuing to body shame the characters they haven't deemed worthy of their kindness. Sympathy for people suffering is of course a good message, but "fat people don't deserve sympathy unless they're suffering" is just not right.

The grandest statement the author makes is that boys can like drawing and girls can wear pants. That's weak feminism even for the time because she still actively cuts down fat women and girls at every opportunity. It's excessive and unnecessary. Furthermore, she sends a bad message to victims of child abuse. This book's advice to kids suffering from an abusive home life is to "not mix personal life with school life" because "everyone will laugh at you and think you betrayed your parents" and "if your parents beat you up, get over it! it's not a big deal! it happens to everyone!"

This book had promise to it. There's a story in there about Jess learning to be more confident and processing his fears, then losing his friend and having to process that grief. Maybe there's even a story in there about learning to understand other people as well as yourself, but it's so fumbled by the attitudes of the author and the time period it was written in. As it stands, the ending is the most well-written part of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Bullying, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Sexism, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Violence and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Child death, Death, Cancer, War, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Car accident

headislemon's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Grief

Moderate: Bullying and Body shaming

ran_sophia's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Bullying, Fatphobia, Death, Child death, and Body shaming

Moderate: Sexism

lennatheunicorncat's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Child death, Grief, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

Moderate: Fatphobia and Body shaming

Minor: Homophobia, Child abuse, Child death, Grief, Fatphobia, Bullying, and Body shaming

penofpossibilities's review

reflective sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

Movie is definitely better. I appreciated the friendship between the main characters and Leslie was really amazing. But I couldn't get past the constant fatphobia, saying it's not big deal being abused, mc referring to another character as "it" and other aweful things. The description of grief seemed well enough but it should have been spread out over more time. You telling me this kid did the whole grief processing cycle in 2 days?? Whut.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Transphobia