Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons from a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery by Shou Arai

5 reviews

tetrootz's review

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Infertility, Mental illness, Infidelity, Body shaming, Incest, Pregnancy, Death, Grief, Fatphobia, Medical content, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Cultural appropriation, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Outing, and Medical trauma

melodyseestrees's review

informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

This is a collection of moments from the author's life and lgbtqia+ people they have interviewed. It flowed a little like a story being broken up by snippets of interview. There is a section with an age-gap couple that mentions they enjoy incest roleplay, which I was not a fan of. I wish the story flowed a bit smoother and kept one concept per page as some pages felt muddy when trying to read them like a standard format manga.  It was a brief dip into several queer concepts but ultimately didn't provide a whole much new information to me. There was a refreshing factor in hearing from an elder lgbtqia+ person, even if their journey is quite different. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Body shaming, Sexism, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Infertility and Homophobia

Minor: Incest, Sexual assault, and Blood

robinks's review

funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

There was a lot of information packed in, but it left me feeling a bit scattered (despite how Arai sorted everything into titled chapters). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Fatphobia, Transphobia, Sexism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming, Dysphoria, Infertility, and Homophobia

Minor: Incest, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

streberkatze's review

Others have mentioned it on here, and the appeoach to the subject just didn't work for me either. So much focus on appearances, and the internalized ageism and gender stereotypes were just palatable and entirely uninterrogated. The whole thing just read like the author complaining to their 15-year-younger partner for pages and pages. And because each chapter consists of comic strips that are only losely related thematically, the whole reading experience felt disjointed on top of that. This might work better for others, it just didn't work for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

indeedithappens's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Classism, Dysphoria, Excrement, Medical content, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infertility, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexism