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redrumreads's review against another edition
5.0
This book has changed my life. I'm so serious.
Weapons vs Pelvis size, childrens TV characters, video game creation, Icelandic Women strike, Brilliance Bias, 75% of unpaid work, sexist Siri, Aristotle's female body comment....
I need to go therapeutically scream in the woods.
Weapons vs Pelvis size, childrens TV characters, video game creation, Icelandic Women strike, Brilliance Bias, 75% of unpaid work, sexist Siri, Aristotle's female body comment....
I need to go therapeutically scream in the woods.
zavatskajam's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
5.0
Every woman should read this book. It will make you angry and it might even make you cry but it will help you realise that your life is so difficult not because you’re not trying hard enough, but because literally all spheres of life were created with men in mind. Highly recommend.
madkatrob's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
mizz_performer's review against another edition
5.0
Criado Perez weilds a precise scalpel to the assumptions that underlie us as a society. Her book is full of precisely placed data and her prose is engaging and easy to read. She is funny and witty, very tricky while dissecting some of the gross injustices of basing the world around male bodies as the default human and women as the odd and atypical 'other'. As frustrating and angering as this book was to read (for us as a society not at the author) I would put this book on any must read list
mj470's review against another edition
1.75
1.75 ⭐
This book is structured as basically a data point per chapter. The author presents a single issue statistic and then unravels a series of diatribes on how everything is sexist. The problem with this type of argument is that sparse statistical analysis is so easily manipulated in either direction to tell the story you want it to. For example, she says "More women die from the indirect effects of war than men." This statistic only tells half the story because obviously it's men dying in the direct effects of war. She has many many arguments set up in the same manner.
She brings up relevant problems in healthcare and clinical trials for drugs. Those are sectors that in general do not favor honest outcomes, her thesis here though is that all problems are sexist. The point that's missing in my mind is that men and women have different problems that can and should be approached separately.
Ultimately this book feels like it was written to rile women up and encourage them to feel victimized instead of having real conversations about how men and women struggle in different ways.
This book is structured as basically a data point per chapter. The author presents a single issue statistic and then unravels a series of diatribes on how everything is sexist. The problem with this type of argument is that sparse statistical analysis is so easily manipulated in either direction to tell the story you want it to. For example, she says "More women die from the indirect effects of war than men." This statistic only tells half the story because obviously it's men dying in the direct effects of war. She has many many arguments set up in the same manner.
She brings up relevant problems in healthcare and clinical trials for drugs. Those are sectors that in general do not favor honest outcomes, her thesis here though is that all problems are sexist. The point that's missing in my mind is that men and women have different problems that can and should be approached separately.
Ultimately this book feels like it was written to rile women up and encourage them to feel victimized instead of having real conversations about how men and women struggle in different ways.