Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf

1 review

elfi_reads's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

3.0

It’s an old classic, and should be read as an old classic. Not a modern literature. There are way more people than men and women in today’s world and we should talk about them. That not only men r*pe, not only women go through all the violence because of the ED and beauty myth, the world is much more complex than men are bad and women are victims. Patriarchy is a huge problem and becomes more of a problem every day, but we don’t need to use old books like they mirror reality and especially realities of marginalised communities. There was also no (or very little) mention of the race and Disability struggle when it comes to femininity/masculinity, beauty, violence and ugliness. But again: it’s an old book. And we should treat it that way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Vomit

R*pe is a HUGE thing in this book, I don’t understand how people can mark it as “mild trigger warning for sexualised violence” and such. There is at least one chapter only about r*pe, but it s also topic in good half or more of the book. As well as description of different SA practices, eating disorder practices including “how they hunger” and “how they v*mit”.