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4.23 AVERAGE
4.23 AVERAGE
emotional
informative
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Sexual violence, Grief
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
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The Seven Necessary Sins of Women and Girls was a lot of effs. Mona is loud, bold, and comes with receipts. She don’t care about your feelings. Her 7 principles (sins) are on point. She definitely got the cussing part down. Her advocacy for violence and being angry is something to think about. Mona for president. #metoo #Ibeatmyattacker
This book is a must read for all women, girls, and anyone else who is fed up with the patriarchy.
This is a book you take your time with, to digest and process.
Ms. Eltahawy has written an essential text book for intersectional feminism.
I appreciated her personal stories and experiences, as well as the vast amount of historical and international research and information.
As a woman who is passionate about learning more about how to be inclusive in my feminism, this book was eye opening.
I have been recommending it to everyone.
This is a book you take your time with, to digest and process.
Ms. Eltahawy has written an essential text book for intersectional feminism.
I appreciated her personal stories and experiences, as well as the vast amount of historical and international research and information.
As a woman who is passionate about learning more about how to be inclusive in my feminism, this book was eye opening.
I have been recommending it to everyone.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
Growing up, I often receive reminders from teachers and families and church on what a good woman and girl should be. They say a woman should strive not to be full of drama and emotions. A woman should lay low and not be an attention whore. A woman should not cuss. Don’t strive too hard; you may scare men away! Be a good example, don’t hit people. Basically everyone is saying “girls are made of sugar, spice, and everything nice.”
Well, for a while I did follow the advice. But in my adulthood, I realized that this builds a self-policing mechanism within myself in which I find myself holding back; to not be too loud, too ambitious, too dramatic, too much. Then I began to question these rules… who made them? Who would benefit from them?
This book by activist #MonaEltahawy dedicates an eassy for each of the seven ‘sins’ womenkind have been socialized to avoid. These are the ‘sins’ of anger, attention, profanity, ambition, power, violence, lust. When women commit these, they are sinning. But of men commit these, all things remain as usual and nobody bats an eye.
To be clear though: the war against patriarchy isn’t a woman vs man war. It is an EVERYONE vs patriarchy and adjacent exploitative systems. Under patriarchy both women AND men suffer. There are a lot of books that dig deeper into these topics…but back to this book, it’s a powerful and a very readable book that reminds us if these are ‘sins’, then let us all be sinners.
Well, for a while I did follow the advice. But in my adulthood, I realized that this builds a self-policing mechanism within myself in which I find myself holding back; to not be too loud, too ambitious, too dramatic, too much. Then I began to question these rules… who made them? Who would benefit from them?
This book by activist #MonaEltahawy dedicates an eassy for each of the seven ‘sins’ womenkind have been socialized to avoid. These are the ‘sins’ of anger, attention, profanity, ambition, power, violence, lust. When women commit these, they are sinning. But of men commit these, all things remain as usual and nobody bats an eye.
To be clear though: the war against patriarchy isn’t a woman vs man war. It is an EVERYONE vs patriarchy and adjacent exploitative systems. Under patriarchy both women AND men suffer. There are a lot of books that dig deeper into these topics…but back to this book, it’s a powerful and a very readable book that reminds us if these are ‘sins’, then let us all be sinners.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Random Thought: Does it make me a bad feminist if I say that I absolutely hated this book?
Don't get me wrong, the author makes some very good points and everything she (and every woman) has every right to be mad about all the horrible things she (and we) have gone through.
However, the writing made me feel like I was being shouted at. Like I need to be as mad as she 'sounds' in the book and if I dared not to be I am less than. Like am not enough of a feminist and that's just a no in my book.
As a woman I will always fight against patriarchy. For my and my fellow women's rights but I will not sit in or with my rage all the time. Life would just suck if I did this
Don't get me wrong, the author makes some very good points and everything she (and every woman) has every right to be mad about all the horrible things she (and we) have gone through.
However, the writing made me feel like I was being shouted at. Like I need to be as mad as she 'sounds' in the book and if I dared not to be I am less than. Like am not enough of a feminist and that's just a no in my book.
As a woman I will always fight against patriarchy. For my and my fellow women's rights but I will not sit in or with my rage all the time. Life would just suck if I did this