Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

219 reviews

myk_yeah's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

I really loved this read and Emily's meditation on what it's like to have the privilege to make it big in an industry that sexualizes and objectifies you, and realize down the road you never truly achieved any power. You just got perks like money and status but that the real power continues to be in the hands of rich men who use that power to continue to do harm.
I also really appreciated the honestly with which she explores the internal conflict of wanting the attention of scary, powerful men, and how we're taught to find validation in that even though it's violent towards us. There's a promise of power and empowerment there if you can be a big girl and tough it out. Emily's not the "perfect victim" and it's important to share stories like that because it's true to life. You shouldn't have to be this "perfect victim" to have the harms done to you acknowledged and addressed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

Moderate: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, and Alcohol

Minor: Mental illness, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

ashp's review against another edition

medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Body shaming

coreyarch9's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

"I want more for myself. I will proclaim all of my mistakes and contradictions, for all the women who cannot do so, for all the women we've called muses without learning their names, whose silence we mistook for consent. I stood on their shoulders to get here."

In My Body, Em Rata unpacks her relationship with her body - her source of fame, her source of security, and a piece of her that is constantly evolving as she grows. 

And that's all this book is, and all it claims to be. There are other stories to dissect the particulars and modalities that are constantly in flux and in contradiction as Emily grows from a quintessential YOLO youth with pretty privilege to being thrust into the limelight as an example of what is (or what isn't) feminism, to legal cases literally determining the ownership of her likeness.

Extremely well-written and easy to connect to. I loved that there wasn't a clear angle for this book and that, instead, it embraced the conflict of different aspects of the relationship between person and body.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, and Stalking

Minor: Eating disorder, Cancer, and Body shaming

hellobillieb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

Beautifully written and heartbreakingly relatable. I will be thinking about this book for a long time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Body shaming

readily_reads's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

2.5

I really wanted to like this book, but it is a stretch to say it is a book about feminism. It’s a memoir. Really enjoyed the last essay in the book however.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Minor: Pregnancy

ellislilylovestoread's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Rape, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

bealittlebrave's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

I *loved* this. So insightful and observant, these extremely personal essays moved me deeply.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual harassment, Death, Alcohol, Drug use, Rape, and Pregnancy

Minor: Stalking and Toxic friendship

rubbertree14's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

2.75

I feel sad about what the author’s gone through and appreciate her honesty with her struggle with her body and being in her own skin. It wasn’t written AMAZINGLY, but it’s her story. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, and Eating disorder

geesammy's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

2.25

I was told this was inspiringly self aware, but I feel it was depressingly self indulgent.  Perhaps it’s the difference in generation, in ethnic background or in sense of privilege, but I found many of these stories disturbing in their depiction of a shallow girl with no common sense.  How can someone be so self absorbed and have such little self awareness or self worth?   It’s baffling and sad; I feel like she wrote this to convince herself and the world that she is a “real person” and not just an image, and yet the only thing she seems to value is her image…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death of parent

nataliegray's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Classism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence