Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo

23 reviews

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

The writing style(s) of this book are so interesting, and I was really hooked on everyone's stories. And goddammit was I full of rage at the North Dakota one. I think what works really well in this book is that you may start it thinking that you wouldn't have anything in common with the three women, but as you dig deeper, you feel like they're speaking part of you. We all desire and usually, we're blocked and hurt. I'll be thinking for a long time about the advice that Ms. Taddeo's mother gave her in the last portion of the book. I think she's right, and that sucks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Body shaming, Infidelity, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Abandonment, Car accident, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Injury/injury detail, Sexual assault, Classism, Mental illness, and Rape

eemadeeberry's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Infidelity, Cursing, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, Misogyny, and Suicide

Minor: Abandonment, Incest, Medical content, and Racism

alexisbashta's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Rape, Grief, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

orlagal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Body shaming, Cancer, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Injury/injury detail, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Violence, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

dylaningersoll's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Infidelity, Bullying, Car accident, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Addiction, Blood, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Terminal illness

edytaworyna's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Fatphobia, Grief, Pedophilia, Self harm, and Rape

bettybabbles's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

2.5

I'm just not entirely sure what the point of this was in the end. I liked the women's stories and thought they were nuanced and some complicated parts of my own experience were articulated by them. However, I feel like making this a nonfiction book and suggesting there's something in here about female desire and sexuality and patriarchy meant I was kind of expecting more reflection/engagement/analysis from the author. I appreciate presenting these women without judgement, that's fundamental and important, but it almost feels like this ends up extending to any meaningful thought about the wider implications that the book wants to be engaging with. I don't know. I liked the women's stories I was just not sure what the author wanted me to know about them and ultimately I feel let down by it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Fatphobia, Suicide, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Self harm, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Incest

rosalind's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Infidelity

Moderate: Suicide, Incest, Death, Death of parent, and Eating disorder

Minor: Fatphobia

carlytenille's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Car accident and Death of parent

kassy182's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

all i have to say is that men are awful and time and again they prove how awful they can be and often innately are. women that support awful men with the knowledge of the extent of their awfulness are just as bad if not worse. 
women deserve more. women have never been given what they deserve and they deserve so much more than a man can even conceive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Car accident, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Rape, and Pedophilia