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Men Who Hate Women: From incels to pickup artists, the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all
Laura Bates
4.34 AVERAGE
4.14k reviews for:
Men Who Hate Women: From incels to pickup artists, the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all
Laura Bates
4.34 AVERAGE
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
As much as I want to refuse to believe what I read are real, they all very much so. The biggest take I can get from this is how systematic most of these problem are rooted. Also, funnily enough, how it mostly came from the toxic masculinity that men build for themselves. Knowing how most of the powerful people in the world, that control most policy and decision, are white men (e.g., politicians, academics, CEO etc), and how the acts of these extremist are usually underestimated (by number or just shrugged off as a one of a kind type of thing) and desensitize (which also driven by the big media and biased policy), makes these disgusting community easily flourish.
This book shows how most hate towards women are mostly still underestimated and underreported as I pointed out previously. It showed how it impacts everyone, especially women and young people. And, once again, shows how oppressors somehow will ALWAYS victimize themselves. Lastly, as how these extremist came to be, it need a fundamental and systematic change to fully eradicate.
challenging
dark
sad
fast-paced
Constantly shocked by how this was all portrayed as a suprise. I really am too online.
Still, having it all in aggregate was interesting and is valuable for those not cursed with too much free time
Still, having it all in aggregate was interesting and is valuable for those not cursed with too much free time
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
informative
medium-paced
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
informative
medium-paced
informative
medium-paced
While reading the first chapter of this one I thought it might be a 5 star read, it presented a nuanced, sympathetic, and thorough analysis of how vulnerable teenage boys become radicalized into alt-right extremism through increasingly violently misogynistic online spaces. As I kept reading however my impressions of this book quickly changed. This book lacks any meaningful discussions of intersectionality, or how white supremacy and neo-nazism are inherently linked to, and proliferated in, misogynistic online spaces like incel forums. This leaves most of the analysis in the book feeling very shallow and incomplete. Also, the comparisons between misogynistic extremism and isis terrorism are at best distasteful and at worst outright harmful. The author often (whether intentionally or not) positions misogyny as worse or more important than other issues, particularly Islamophobia. She brings up Islamophobic responses to isis terrorism, but offers no critique of such responses. Rather she uses these extreme responses (including an unfounded and unjust arrest of a young Muslim teenager in his high school for being interested in engineering and building alarm clocks) as a means to highlight the lack of response to violent misogyny. Intentional or not, this comes across as an approval of Islamophobia in policing systems. The author also puts WAYYYYYY too much faith in policing and carceral systems as a response to violent extremism with no investigation into how these systems perpetuate and uphold systems of oppression and violence that cause such extremism. Overall this one had a lot of potential, but any discussion about race or terrorism was extremely clunky, surface level, and at times downright harmful.