Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

67 reviews

madamegeneva's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.25

I want to give Aubrey a huge hug - this book was fantastic and extremely affirming for me. Don’t get me wrong, it’s frustrating just how many freaking barriers fat people have to face on a daily basis, but this book opened my eyes to the true extent of the issues and laid out how we can work on fixing them right now. 

Additionally, the book isn’t just informative, it’s also well written and easy to read - but not the point of condescension. Fucking gold star.

[Bonus points cause she’s a fat queer badass woman]

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, and Misogyny

entiresunset's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A must read for everyone. Cannot recommend this enough. I learned so much by reading this book and am now able to tackle my own internalised anti-fat bias and weight stigma and to start my own healing process.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Bullying

Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, and Transphobia

Minor: Sexual assault and Rape

pricklybriar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A great introduction to the concept of anti-fat bias. Unfortunately this form of discrimination is still widely upheld and accepted, and Gordon expertly dismantles the arguments used to justify it. Her personal recollections are heartfelt and deeply moving, and add emphasis to the research and statistics she shares.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment

chlo_po's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

essential reading for the body justice movement aka everyone with a body, and a powerful way forward against the ever present anti-fatness in ourselves and our society 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual assault, Eating disorder, and Sexual harassment

amcgriff's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.75

The audiobook is not read by the author which is jarring at first because of being a long time Maintence Phase listener. But otherwise, well researched and informative but not particularly shocking or new information for people who are fat. For those that have not lived as fat people or who think being fat is a moral failing, the information is easy to digest and well presented with a mix of personal narrative and scholarly-ish writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Medical trauma

vanlyn87's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual violence

hwills5's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Sexual harassment, and Eating disorder

Minor: Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Ableism, and Medical trauma

thehinkydonut's review against another edition

challenging informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Body shaming

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexism, Misogyny, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

stevia333k's review

informative inspiring tense

4.5

This is a good book when I'm trying to get a different angle on conversion torture because this book is geared for the intersection of fat activism & feminism. i recommend this book. basically, screw the myth of willpower. i would say the book is scary with its descriptions of street harassment & assault, but there's a sort of horror of oppression that's alluded to but not explicitly gotten to, even though there is a lot of connections talked about throughout the book. that being said i'm adding these next 2 paragraphs in order to help synthesize what i got from this book with other information i've seen, especially since i haven't read like academic journals about fat rights, fat liberation, fat studies, etc. while i have marked it with spoiler formatting, please note that i have added information that are from other sources.

That being said, I feel like the book has a lot of emphasis on hatred against fat people, when i noticed that a lot of the bullying i faced in school was connected to people trying to assimilate & suck up to the teachers. it's the trying to get closer to enclosured power as opposed to breaking that privatization & getting it distributed equitably.

like there's 2 things i think of at least: the military wanting a one-size-fits-all outfit to make gear standardized (they ended up having to make 3 sizes), and how fatness is used to play into desireability politics to cover up how white patriarchs raped black perceived-females. like, i sense those were meant to be simmering in the background, (we literally started out with how fatphobia is connected to militarism, and how fatphobia is compared to an "epidemic" like how bourgeois depictions of famine refugees as zombies & "great replacement" canard works with settler colonizers. but again, these are left lower-key.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Hate crime, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, War, Ableism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Grief, Stalking, Violence, Bullying, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Rape, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Medical content, Racism, and Sexism

katieconlon's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I can't say enough positive things about this book; it totally changed the way I think about bodies, diet culture, and my own self-worth. A must read! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Eating disorder and Sexual harassment