Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

25 reviews

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Ableism, Bullying, Racism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

Moderate: Sexual violence, Chronic illness, Classism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Abortion and Pregnancy

tmchopra's review

challenging informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Mental illness, Homophobia, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Sexual violence, Sexism, Misogyny, and Sexual harassment

annieu's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Eating disorder

Moderate: Medical trauma, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Violence, and Transphobia

renyoi's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I read this after listening to Gordon’s podcast, Maintenance Phase, and a lot of the talking points from that seem to be from here. This meant topics were repetitive at points—indeed, they were sometimes repetitive even within the text of the book itself—but still utterly worth knowing and learning about, especially if you are not a fat person. Gordon simplifies issues of feminism and intersectionality to a degree I don’t quite agree with, but her main points—that anti-fat bias plagues every facet of our society and that we need to turn to the lens of justice to rectify that—are necessary and critical for any conscionable person to understand.  I admire this book’s vulnerability and persuasiveness greatly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Bullying

Moderate: Medical trauma and Eating disorder

Minor: Racism, Transphobia, Homophobia, Hate crime, and Misogyny

corvidaeus's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Bullying

Moderate: Medical content, Chronic illness, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Transphobia

foreverinastory's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Everyone needs to read this!!! Especially if you are not fat.

CWs: Fatphobia, body shaming, medical trauma, eating disorder, medical content, sexual harassment, bullying, ableism, misogyny, hate crime, sexual violence, threats of rape, sexism, emotional abuse, violence, gaslighting, death, transphobia/transmisia, classism. Moderate: queerphobia/queermisia, racism, dysphoria, chronic illness, cancer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Ableism, Misogyny, Rape, Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Bullying, Violence, Gaslighting, and Classism

Moderate: Racism, Dysphoria, Chronic illness, and Cancer

unsuccessfulbookclub's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

5.0

I could write pages and pages of my thoughts on this book but they all boil down to this one:

➡️ Everyone should read this. ⬅️

Aubrey Gordon is brilliant, engaging, emotionally vulnerable and inspiring. In 165 pages she gives an incredibly well-researched yet personal account of the costs of anti-fatness through an intersectional lens. And like every stain on American culture, the costs of anti-fatness are high and affect all of us.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Classism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual harassment

habertoes's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Moderate: Dysphoria and Eating disorder

Minor: Medical trauma and Misogyny

gtrue21's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

daydreamermoonwalker's review

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

This was a fantastic introduction to fatphobia and body justice. I loved the author's mix of personal experiences and research based argument. I also appreciated how she made sure to include poc, queer, trans, and disabled people in her arguments, as any conversation on body justice that doesn't include all bodies is incomplete. 

I think that everyone should read this book, especially if you're just starting to learn about these things. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual harassment