Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates

68 reviews

sadiefc's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

This book contains unedited, real life quotes and messages of deeply disturbed, violent, racist and sexist human beings.

honestlyholly's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.75

Took me a while to read because I needed to take mental health breaks. It was so hard to read about the horrific men in this book. But I would recommend it to everyone, especially your male partners and sons! 
.25 knocked off because it was a little long in some places where it repeated a bit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Mass/school shootings

justabridge's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

A frightening read, but an important one, and I really appreciated how compassionate Bates was able to be throughout this, despite the difficult subject material and the suffering she has undergone herself at the hands of some of the individuals mentioned. This was really well balanced and well put together, really well structured and the scope was great. Really recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

puffybus21's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

Bates proves her mastery of not just informational writing, but also presenting her knowledge to her audience in a cohesive and understandable way. She used excellent metaphors, referenced very reliable sources, and connected her idea brilliantly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Islamophobia, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Biphobia, Pedophilia, Self harm, and Xenophobia

caitieh97's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

An informative and well written book, Laura Bates does a great job to explore the different communities and the problems that they create for our world and how society is making them worse. This book will make you feel anger, sadness, fear, and nausea but it provides an eye opening view that we should all be aware of in order to make a difference against misogyny. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, and Car accident

lou_o_donnell's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Islamophobia, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

olivianw's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.5

I can’t say I *enjoyed* this book. But I appreciate the importance of this kind of research. And I hugely admire Laura Bates for having the dedication (and stomach) to write it!

I found it very interesting, and even though it made my anxiety shoot through the roof, I could not stop reading. As well as examining extreme levels of misogyny, I feel like Bates took care not to generalise, and was even sympathetic to some of the subjects in this book (where sympathy was due!). The result is an incredibly fair and nuanced look at “Men Who Hate Women”. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Mass/school shootings

rosienotjen's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Hate crime, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Islamophobia, and Mass/school shootings