Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

3 reviews

unluckycat13's review

The author is a TERF, this is a TERF book. Not to undermine the honestly good work and important information in this book, but you can't remove it from the author's views. While it starts out seeming reasonable enough-- I think it's understandable even if not great to not separate sex and gender-- the author eventually begins to build her argument into women being an immutable biologically separate organism with most things in life attributed purely to biology. Of course there's no proof of this because of the data gap. The studies will surely show she's right though, as they always say. 

The book does start out acknowledging queer and disabled people, and it does talk about other countries with a non dismissive and non bigoted attitude, however the author is very quick to paint groups of people (such as western women, or British women) with a singular brush. Despite admitting that the so called standard male doesn't represent men in general, she's very argumentative in favor of a standard female model. It's hard to untangle her personal views on sex and gender from the rest of the book and the more you begin to think about it, the worse it gets. 

I would generally not recommend this book, and while it is a nice organization of some studies I have heard most of them before elsewhere. 

Being a book about sexism, you can expect a TW warning for basically literally every topic, albeit only passingly. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Stalking, Miscarriage, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Gun violence, Violence, Trafficking, Racism, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Ableism, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, and Medical trauma

chaos_and_chapters's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Sexism, Misogyny, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, Murder, Rape, War, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Slavery, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Genocide, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Racism, Eating disorder, Blood, and Body shaming

hollieee's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Violence

Minor: Abortion, Cancer, Car accident, Death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Dementia, and Excrement