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A review by kierscrivener
The Locker Room by Timothé Le Boucher
emotional
3.5
This is an exploration of bullying and toxic masculinity in middke school by French artist and writer Timothé Le Boucher. He opens with remrmbering his own experiences of heing bullied and how the locker room was a place without any supervision and much insecurity.
I remember how much I dreaded the locker rooms, and how I would change in stalls..none of us showered, and neither did we remove bras or underwear and if we did we went to the toilets as they were the only sheltering place. But it was also only ever 5 minutes and didn't really have time for anything but being turned agsinst the wall changing with quickness and long shirts to cover butts.
I wish we had some more conclusive end or commentary rather then the end only being open to interpretation and direct to reader anti bullying message.
Fatphobia, p/f/r slurs all used, and much derogatory language and violence between boys and around puberty, nudity and being man enough and 'not gay' also they are shown spying on the girls and full fenale nudity is shown when male genitals are always covered which in itself is commentary (and the girls are only ever seen in the changeroom, at least partly undressed), the boys being turned on by them.
I remember how much I dreaded the locker rooms, and how I would change in stalls..none of us showered, and neither did we remove bras or underwear and if we did we went to the toilets as they were the only sheltering place. But it was also only ever 5 minutes and didn't really have time for anything but being turned agsinst the wall changing with quickness and long shirts to cover butts.
I wish we had some more conclusive end or commentary rather then the end only being open to interpretation and direct to reader anti bullying message.
Fatphobia, p/f/r slurs all used, and much derogatory language and violence between boys and around puberty, nudity and being man enough and 'not gay' also they are shown spying on the girls and full fenale nudity is shown when male genitals are always covered which in itself is commentary (and the girls are only ever seen in the changeroom, at least partly undressed), the boys being turned on by them.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, and Fatphobia