dhilas_archive 's review for:

Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates

4.5

challenging

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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.