Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee

8 reviews

the_reading_wren's review

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Really important read for anyone scared of their own masculinity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism

barefootsierra's review

5.0

emotional fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Outing, Dysphoria

saskiahill's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Outing, Injury/Injury detail

oisinthewizard's review

3.5

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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As a gay trans man, this was a somewhat difficult read and showed me a gap in masculine experiences as shaped by sexuality and performance. While I found McGee's experiences almost entirely unrelatable, his writing is self reflective and offers insight into the pressures to perform a strictly heterosexual masculinity.

I was made deeply uncomfortable by the use of anti-gay male slurs and with the author's approach to the casual use of such slurs in all-male settings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Cancer, Misogyny

zombiezami's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Outing, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Drug abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, Sexual harassment

tinyelfarcanist's review against another edition

5.0

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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While this memoir recounts the author's journey to become the first trans man to fight at Madison Square Garden (for a charity event), this is not a story about boxing. It relies on his experience training to question what makes a man a man.

He starts perceiving his reality full of the privilege men have when passing as cis. He questions what drives men to resort to violence when in the face of a problem. He interviews experts on gender to understand masculinity in the society we live in.

Great insight for people transitioning (or born in) to masculinity. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexism

Minor: Violence, Blood, Death of parent

queertrash's review

5.0

emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Drug use, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Mass/school shootings, Outing

emfass's review

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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This was a Family Book Club read, suggested by my youngest sibling. I'm not sure I ever would have picked it up on my own, but wow. Wow wow wow. This is a wondrous, vulnerable, thought-provoking exploration of gender, masculinity, violence, loss, and self-actualization. Highly highly recommended.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault

Minor: Transphobia, Blood