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A review by brianna_4pawsandabook
Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame by Erin Williams
1.0
1.5 Stars
Wow... This was not at all what I was expecting and was actually pretty terrible. I get what the author was trying to do. She was trying to show the struggles that women have in today's society. But it was so stereotyped, it wasn't believable. The author comes across as a misandrist, homophobic and fatphobic. She constantly talks about how she, at 125 pounds is fat and therefore undesirable, and if you weren't desirable (to men) you were invisible and not worthy (very harmful for some people to read), how anal sex was violent and violating (homophobic, and also, her opinion, not a fact) and there was a comment about how she never read anything from male authors, and her over generalization of men based on her few experiences of how men treated her. (misandry). On top of that, the art was just not my style and I found it jarring.
I applaud the author for her candor and honesty in revealing these intimate details of her life and her story. But this came across as anger, instead of providing a solution to the problem. It was just a rant.
CW: homophobia, fatphobia, alcoholism, rape, assault, misandry, drug abuse, sexual abuse, graphic illustrations of genetalia,
Wow... This was not at all what I was expecting and was actually pretty terrible. I get what the author was trying to do. She was trying to show the struggles that women have in today's society. But it was so stereotyped, it wasn't believable. The author comes across as a misandrist, homophobic and fatphobic. She constantly talks about how she, at 125 pounds is fat and therefore undesirable, and if you weren't desirable (to men) you were invisible and not worthy (very harmful for some people to read), how anal sex was violent and violating (homophobic, and also, her opinion, not a fact) and there was a comment about how she never read anything from male authors, and her over generalization of men based on her few experiences of how men treated her. (misandry). On top of that, the art was just not my style and I found it jarring.
I applaud the author for her candor and honesty in revealing these intimate details of her life and her story. But this came across as anger, instead of providing a solution to the problem. It was just a rant.
CW: homophobia, fatphobia, alcoholism, rape, assault, misandry, drug abuse, sexual abuse, graphic illustrations of genetalia,