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Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates

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kymzii's review against another edition

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informative slow-paced

3.75

This is essential reading for everyone as the subject matter is important. However, I didn't find this very easy to read. It felt at times like a list of facts, rather than a story woven together to illustrate facts and opinions. 

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selimhannah's review against another edition

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challenging dark hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.5


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challenging informative medium-paced

5.0


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challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

"We can't tackle a problem if people don't even know it exists. And, once we do know, we all have a responsibility to answer a simple question: what are we going to do about it?" Laura Bates ( Pg. 342)

I have had my eyes thoroughly slapped open by this book and the spread of violent misogyny into our daily lives by the Manosphere, politicians, journalists,  celebrities and others of influence through so many means that our Young people accept the ideology as a norm. This is a powerful book that offers such clarity on issues we should all be aware of and how the minority are influencing the majority filling our society with a hate rhetoric. Before starting this book I thought I knew something of incels and misogyny, nope! I knew nothing, I had no idea how deep rooted the issue is and how it is secreted into main stream politics, journalism and media to become a "norm". Bates has researched her book so thoroughly with no stone left unturned and she is shining a bright spot light that we must all look at NOW! 

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mariacirillo's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

5.0


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teainthelibrary's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.0


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isabellaeileen's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

5.0

Accessible, engaging and extremely insightful. A must read. 

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ginnyb412's review against another edition

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challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75


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anningana's review against another edition

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challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75


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readwithbells's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.5

This might be one of my new favorite feminist texts. Laura Bates is phenomenal at her structure of ideas, at her use of statistics and sources, and at quantifying her ideas in multiple different ways. She is direct and brutal and it works. 

I find most non-fictions I read are to supplement information I already have, learn more about an issue I am already familiar with. I knew next to nothing about the manosphere prior to this book (other than it exists) and I felt like my brain was cracked open reading this. This book is challenging and hard to read but I encourage you to read it. The research is impeccable and the information could not be more relevant and important. 

It loses half a star because I felt like some of her chapters could have been broken up into more readable chunks but all in all, this book was pretty flawless. Off to the next Laura Bates book!

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