Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

6 reviews

camoo3032's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

3.75

The first half was a bit of a struggle to get through but I thoroughly enjoyed the second half. My biggest criticism would be that she often recounts information or includes personal tales that are tangential to the point that she's trying to make. I also fear that aspects of this book will lose their relevance the further away we get from the Trump Administrative 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug use, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Racism, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, and Sexism

Moderate: Suicide, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and Violence

Minor: Body shaming, Genocide, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Abortion, Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Sexual content, Transphobia, Classism, Slavery, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Infidelity, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, War, and Fire/Fire injury

kimmykelly's review against another edition

informative reflective

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Rape

jlye's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Rape

lmbell's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

I found many of the essays insightful and interesting. The author challenged some of my approaches to feminist critique in a way that I found valuable. 
There were some essays that I found weaker than the rest, but I guess that’s often just the nature of a collection.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

marabdelmageed's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Amazingly written, and I learned so much. This book gave me much to think about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Classism, Cursing, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Body shaming

beca_reads's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

I had been meaning to read this for a while and was not disappointed. Each essay was unique and gave an interesting outlook on how as humans we are completely delusional to our own behaviour. For me my favourite essay was "Always be optimising" which dived into the issues of the sport community, specifically workout classes. The book also focused mainly on women's point of view, but there is no reason to say that men can not get just as much out of this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Sexual violence