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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
Fun. Illuminating. Necessary. An important read for women and men alike.
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An absolute must read. It's interesting, funny and sad and makes you think about life and periods.
This book should be read by both men and women especially those who consider periods and blood as something disgusting and embarrassing.
Periods are a normal bodily function and everyone should feel free to talk about periods and bleed freely.
This book is amazing, honest and a real eye opener.
This book should be read by both men and women especially those who consider periods and blood as something disgusting and embarrassing.
Periods are a normal bodily function and everyone should feel free to talk about periods and bleed freely.
This book is amazing, honest and a real eye opener.
I've noticed more books recently aimed at teens and adults, trying to demystify and degross the topic of periods. This is an excellent one. Chatty, funny and very very honest, it's a wonderful starting off point for conversations that are increasingly important for people to have.
The only thing I didn't like was the author's continual insistence that all women prefer tampons over pads. I know plenty who prefer pads. Maybe I was reading it wrong, but I saw it in several places and I found it surprising in a book that otherwise champions the fact that women are different and they feel and experience things differently.
This is a great read for everyone, male and female, to read. Let's help make sure the next generation doesn't suffer the shame we have.
The only thing I didn't like was the author's continual insistence that all women prefer tampons over pads. I know plenty who prefer pads. Maybe I was reading it wrong, but I saw it in several places and I found it surprising in a book that otherwise champions the fact that women are different and they feel and experience things differently.
This is a great read for everyone, male and female, to read. Let's help make sure the next generation doesn't suffer the shame we have.
3.5
The « No Blood » chapter of this was interesting. I don’t mean this in a nasty or judgemental way, but I will never understand the obsession with having a biological child. I get that it’s important for some people, but the lengths we go to to prioritize it and make it seem like the absolute holy grail of ~the female experience~ really blows my mind
The « No Blood » chapter of this was interesting. I don’t mean this in a nasty or judgemental way, but I will never understand the obsession with having a biological child. I get that it’s important for some people, but the lengths we go to to prioritize it and make it seem like the absolute holy grail of ~the female experience~ really blows my mind
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This book is revolutionary!!
I’ve always been one of those people who has never felt embarrassed when it comes to talking all things period, so I thought I wouldn’t be very surprised when reading this book. How wrong I was.
So many facts and myths were explored in this book, and so many important topics such as period poverty; people who want a period (eg: hearing about a woman born with no womb) and someone who desperately wants theirs to disappear (eg: a non binary transgender person who still suffers with their period); your first and last period and stigmas and mentalities that surround periods.
I highly encourage EVERYONE to read this, whether you have periods or not, as it covers a lot of ground to make way for breaking the taboo that in the 21st century still surrounds periods (eg: in one country it is believed that women on their period must not touch mayonnaise as if they do it will curdle...huh?!)
Emma Barnett absolutely smashes it out the park with this one and I definitely enjoyed reading it. I laughed, felt angry, felt sad and felt empowered. The stigma and taboo that surrounds periods is crazily outdated and we need to start breaking barriers by changing our mentality around it, so then when there is questions over whether sanitary products are essential or should be free for all, there can be more of a discussion as people’s embarrassment won’t hold them back.
MY RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Bonus point for counting how many times the word period was said)
I’ve always been one of those people who has never felt embarrassed when it comes to talking all things period, so I thought I wouldn’t be very surprised when reading this book. How wrong I was.
So many facts and myths were explored in this book, and so many important topics such as period poverty; people who want a period (eg: hearing about a woman born with no womb) and someone who desperately wants theirs to disappear (eg: a non binary transgender person who still suffers with their period); your first and last period and stigmas and mentalities that surround periods.
I highly encourage EVERYONE to read this, whether you have periods or not, as it covers a lot of ground to make way for breaking the taboo that in the 21st century still surrounds periods (eg: in one country it is believed that women on their period must not touch mayonnaise as if they do it will curdle...huh?!)
Emma Barnett absolutely smashes it out the park with this one and I definitely enjoyed reading it. I laughed, felt angry, felt sad and felt empowered. The stigma and taboo that surrounds periods is crazily outdated and we need to start breaking barriers by changing our mentality around it, so then when there is questions over whether sanitary products are essential or should be free for all, there can be more of a discussion as people’s embarrassment won’t hold them back.
MY RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Bonus point for counting how many times the word period was said)