Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

24 reviews

kassy182's review against another edition

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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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jackieyvette's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

One of the best books I’ve read in quite a while. Didn’t know what to expect going in, but was more than pleasantly surprised. Lisa’s writing voice is great for the topic at hand. Wish I would have read it sooner. 

Crying score: teary eyed for a bit. 

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miriamahs's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0


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nisanatreads's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense medium-paced

3.5

It's definitely a good book that depicts the story of three women and their relationship with themselves, with men and in general with the world. The author obviously put a lot of work into researching their stories and at the same time wrote it in a way that made me feel fully emerged in them. The only problem I had with it was that it lacked representation of WoC and at times was a bit to graphic for my taste. But I guess it's also kinda the point to be so crass, since what happened to these real women was graphic in every sense of the word. 

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clephairy's review against another edition

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challenging dark medium-paced

2.5

i found the premise and motivation of the book really interesting and promising. sadly it fell short. i think that stories told were certainly insightful but i think they werent told with the intentional nuance of liberating desire. it was not at all seperated from men and patriarchal concepts of conforming to gendered ideals. however i think the story concerning aaron knodel was not at all told with the particular compassion nor understanding that it deserved, as a 17yr old when reading about a teacher student relationship with someone my age i am appalled by the inclusion of graphic depictions of the assault that took place. furthermore the internalised misogyny throughout the whole scene in court was not cool and fun or anything that should be celebrated. 

im glad people felt carthasis and do not want to take that away from anyone. heal in the ways you can. 

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julesadventurezone's review

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reflective sad medium-paced

3.0


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hunterlovesneilperry's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

2.5

i was dissapointed. this book had so much potential, and it failed. it circles around three cis straight white women, who should not be at the forefront representation of «this is pleasure for women».

the way sloane would in deatil talk about her internalised fatphobia, and that she needed to be skinny, made me as a plus size person, feel disgusted with myself. 

lina starts off her part by talking about getting raped, and then you’re left with this feeling of «oh my god» because reading about rape is in no way fun or interesting. but she leaves it at that. she never brings it up again, and i was so obvious that her need for sexual attention comes from unhealed wounds.

maggie was just very complicated not gonna lie. i dont even know how to get into that.

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slintangel's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.0


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sarhslbr's review against another edition

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emotional reflective tense slow-paced

2.25

this book was really really hard to get through for me . i could not get into it and i had to make myself read it , but keep in mind that i’m probably jsut not intellectually available enough 

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devikapha's review against another edition

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dark sad slow-paced

2.5


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