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Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates

22 reviews

madelinequinnee's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is an incredibly informative and important book that i recommend everyone reads. Bates offers an accessible and gripping look into the world of misogyny and sexism, especially in online spaces, that shows all the ways in which the world still often times turns a blind eye or even unactively supports misogyny. 

This is a rather heavy book, with discussions around sexual assault, murder and harassment, but I think it’s incredibly important to read if you feel you can handle those topics. The author uses a mixture of her own experiences, interviews with other victims, academics and activists, and her own research into the world of online misogyny to create a concise discussion about sexism and what the world can do to tackle it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Mass/school shootings, Rape, Suicide, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Violence, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Abortion, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Antisemitism, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexism, and Xenophobia

bethan182's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Murder, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Suicide, Rape, Racism, and Mass/school shootings

crybabybea's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Stalking, Suicide, Misogyny, Cursing, Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Murder

catriona176's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Sexism, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, and Gun violence

Moderate: Suicide and Racial slurs

Minor: War

bookfriend8's review

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

This is a rough one, but so important to read. You get a real deep dive into the manosphere, which is literally just a massive community of men who will literally do anything but go to therapy. You start to realise how horribly ubiquitous and normalised misogyny is, and the internet is only making this worse. I can’t begin to fully explain the impact of this book. I’m glad this information made it to press; it feels much more real than when you read about it online. Anyway, the internet sucks, social media suck, (toxic) masculinity is good for literally no one, and we’ve really got to take this trend seriously, especially because it’s rotting impressionable people’s minds. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Misogyny, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Hate crime, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Racism, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Stalking and Suicide

cdubbs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Bullying, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Classism, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Suicide, Pedophilia, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Rape, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Violence

vessel's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

I would describe the experience of reading this book as personally harrowing, but quite necessary.

Very informative, well-structured look into the dark topic of male supremacist communities. It's a topic I had cursory knowledge of going in, and I recommend it to anyone looking to expand their understanding of the ways fringe sexist ideologies from the bowels of hate groups' forums ripple through society and affect all of us.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Xenophobia, Rape, and Suicide

sunday_evening's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Disturbing but necessary read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Stalking, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Pedophilia

priesty23's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Racism, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Violence, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Homophobia, Hate crime, Body shaming, Suicide, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, Mass/school shootings, Self harm, and Gun violence

notthatcosta's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

2.5

I tend to struggle with books that were written by journalists, because I find that their storytelling skills are lacking when it comes to creating a whole book. Even though Laura Bates is not a journalist, Men Who Hate Women falls foul of similar traps that I've seen previously in non fiction books of this type.

Most of the chapters feel unnecessarily padded out, often with repetition of previous points made that don't serve to create a cohesive narrative thread. Even in more successful chapters like 'Men Who Don't Know They Hate Women', half way through it veers off into a tangent about the 2016 election. 

I understand that the topic at hand is very broad, complex and wide reaching, but the lack of focus makes it frustrating to read beyond the frustrating subject matter. With better and tighter editing I think this could have been a great book, but it ends up feeling like an unfocussed and cluttered collection of ideas and case studies with some paraphrased 4Chan posts sprinkled in. 

I probably would have preferred it if the book just centred on what Laura Bates heard during her school visits and talks, rather than the need to try and summarise what she read on manosphere forums.

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Bullying, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Body shaming, Sexism, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Cursing, Death, Slavery, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Child death, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Violence, and Xenophobia