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esmol 's review for:
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by Caroline Criado Pérez
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
Women's right are human rights and it sucks that that has to be said. We are only hypervisible when it comes sex but invisible in the extra carework that is often forced upon us because no man is going to do it and we are expected to do it and shut up. It is not very often that I have such a physical and emotional reaction to a book but being fed stat after stat about how the world and people are designed against me as a women due to ignorance or lack of care made me furious and actually have to leave at multiple points. I think that although perez tried to create a positive swing at the end of the book it was not very effective due to the negative realities and horror of how the gender data gap and being a women forced to exist in this current society affects myself and my loved ones. It did help and explain a lot about why I react in negative ways to certain environments, and gave me reason to identify that my reactions are justified because its often a design flaw of my surrounds that is making my world generally more unsafe for me. Honestly the problem seems to always stem back to men (I don't mean to be a man hater) but I do hate the fact that they are often so privileged and unaware of any reality but their own. I shared some of my thoughts with my male friends and their reactions was just "oh damn that sucks I never thought of that" while I have been living with that awareness and stress that these they will never experience or have to worry about. No wonder I'm a fucking lesbian that naturally dislikes, distrusts and find men annoying. I got tired of doing the carework for them from a young age and think the ultimate horror of existence would be coexistence with a man as I've spent years cleaning up after them, dealing with their emotional immaturity, and harassment. It's a good informative book but will hurt me more then my period ever will and stick with me for longer.