Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

12 reviews

christinesmith205's review against another edition

informative

2.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fatphobia

katrinarose's review

informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.0

Interesting but nothing mindblowing. A nice systematic review of the body and its functions for someone who doesn’t know anything on the topic, with some fun historical context of various discoveries sprinkled in. My favorite (although most depressing) part was probably when the author discussed statistics for how bad healthcare in America is and compared to various other countries.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Fatphobia, Dementia, Cancer, Pandemic/Epidemic, Terminal illness, and Death

gusreads's review

informative medium-paced

3.5

There’s a lot of interesting information here but there’s a certain smugness in his tone throughout that I didn’t personally enjoy.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia

heathen's review

funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

2.5

This book was very informative on many different aspects of the human body. It definitely isn't inclusive of trans people and I wasn't wild about all the fat phobia. It was entertaining and informative enough, and I realize trying to encapsulate the myriad processes of the human body into an easily accessible book is a tall order. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Fatphobia and Transphobia

emilyspex's review

informative medium-paced

3.75

I enjoyed most of this book.

I think the main weakness was the sheer volume of topics the book covered. Everything was discussed in an amount enough to be tantalizing but rarely enough that it was satisfying.

I would've also rated this book more highly had it not been so fatphobic.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia

maddox22's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Excrement, Death of parent, Drug use, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Cancer, Child death, Dementia, Blood, Ableism, Chronic illness, and Death

marsbarsx's review against another edition

funny informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia

o_pixel's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

This was an entertaining and engaging deep dive into the systems that govern our body, but the confusing, and what felt like uncharacteristically dismissive and shallow, analysis of weight and its impact on health was distracting and discouraging. It felt odd for a medical expert to cite studies and questionable statistics that challenged each other to only conclude with, "one need only look around to see that there is a lot of excess flesh." This prevents me from broadly recommending the book, which is disappointing, because many other chapters were fascinating reveals.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia

gracek67's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

1.5

very trans-exclusive and fatphobic, glossed over important things, and was generally very dull. His talk about breast cancer completely excluded non-women, which isn't even related to his exclusion of trans people- males can get breast cancer too. The sex/chromosomes section only gave XX and XY as the two options, ignoring the many variations there are even within people assigned male or female at birth.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia and Fatphobia

katielaine_w's review

reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fatphobia, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Sexual content