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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell
20 reviews
zombiezami's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Misogyny, Cursing, and Sexism
Moderate: Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Classism, Colonisation, Racism, Cultural appropriation, Homophobia, and Ableism
Minor: Violence, Rape, Slavery, and Racial slurs
aklandis42's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Cursing and Sexism
Minor: Transphobia, Xenophobia, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment
leannanecdote's review against another edition
2.75
Minor: Cultural appropriation, Misogyny, Racism, Racial slurs, Cursing, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Sexism, and Sexual content
basicbookstagrammer's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Cursing, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, and Sexual content
alrauna's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Misogyny and Sexual content
Minor: Sexual harassment
sunn_bleach's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cursing, Sexism, and Sexual content
Minor: Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Homophobia
paigeno's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, and Misogyny
Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault
Minor: Transphobia and Homophobia
junefish's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Cursing
Moderate: Sexual content and Sexism
Minor: Lesbophobia and Sexual harassment
boneloose's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Cursing, Misogyny, and Sexism
Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual content
ohlhauc's review against another edition
There were plenty of interesting examples and sociolinguistic terms and ideas were clearly explained, but this book tried to do too little and too much at the same time. It felt like an amalgam of self help and popular science - more style than substance.
I would have liked to see either a deeper dive into etymology and linguistics rather than covering the basics and focusing on minutia and everyday examples OR look at language more in context and examine social structure and power systems that play into language. Neither of those things were done. Any times that context was brought up or social theory introduced, it was glossed over. As a result, the ideas around language were fairly self-contained and quite often, the examples of how to apply them were lacking the nuance of what people would face in real-life scenarios, especially any readers who are not cisgender white women or cisgender gay men. The representation of other groups was sorely underdeveloped, and at least twice, there was even comments that failed to consider the inappropriateness and damage caused by appropriation of AAVE and black culture, and how it's more than just using words that sound "cool". Again, the lack of analysis around power and social structure led to eyebrow-raising claims.
The organization also felt off. There were many, many times when the author's explanation of a topic would raise a question in my mind or make me think of a potential criticism, which wasn't addressed in that chapter. But then, an answer that could apply would be mentioned several chapters later in different contexts. Basically, there was too much self-containment in the chapters and they didn't speak to each other, or build on each other. That isn't necessarily an issue but here, it needed to be done to again, see the context of the ideas.
Finally, many studies and research papers and whatnot were mentioned (although not in full) throughout the chapters but there wasn't a formerly cited reference list so you couldn't look up those studies. That was annoying.
I would not recommend this book.
Graphic: Cursing
Moderate: Racism and Sexual content