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lottie1803's review against another edition
dark
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Slavery
ratxheart's review against another edition
reflective
sad
slow-paced
2.75
I suggest reading the essays that intrigue you instead of this book as a whole from cover to cover, it will give a much better impression.
it would have been mindblowing to read this book as a 15 year old facing sexism that other people brushed off. however reading it now was boring. it's really circular, common to find sentences with series of three or more terms listing bad things that can happen to women without ever going in depth.
- women face xyz
- yes i agree, what's next?
i feel like the book should have assumed it is on the same page with the reader and moved forwards instead of trying to convince a skeptic who would never read this in the first place. critique of pornography was rare breath of fresh hair throughout the book.
I liked the essays about stories and indentifying with women characters in stories and how the common literature criticism narrative is we are supposed to feel for the male protagonist.
it would have been mindblowing to read this book as a 15 year old facing sexism that other people brushed off. however reading it now was boring. it's really circular, common to find sentences with series of three or more terms listing bad things that can happen to women without ever going in depth.
- women face xyz
- yes i agree, what's next?
i feel like the book should have assumed it is on the same page with the reader and moved forwards instead of trying to convince a skeptic who would never read this in the first place. critique of pornography was rare breath of fresh hair throughout the book.
I liked the essays about stories and indentifying with women characters in stories and how the common literature criticism narrative is we are supposed to feel for the male protagonist.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape, Abortion, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Child abuse
schnurln's review against another edition
The introduction is great. But the way too few mentions of how race and queerness interact with feminism are not fully formed and borderline harmful. The audiobook narrator pronounced latinx "la-tinks". After the majority of the first half of the book focused on sexual assault, it went on to laud two male comedians with well known accusations of sexual harassment/sexual misconduct as open feminists using their platform and maleness to call out other men and praise feminism. Absolutely disgusting and I'm quitting. I feel physically ill. DNF @ 53%
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault
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