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A review by raintaxi
Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition by P. Carl
3.0
- i empathized with alot of the feelings, but do not agree with some of the opinions that he expresses
- the sections could have been better ordered, i felt like the book oscillated between moving towards a more nuanced understanding of masculinity and then immediately regressed
- not to sound pretentious but i like purple prose and nice sentences, and that is often why i hate memoirs bc the writing is tedious to read
- kind of repetitive and really depressing
- incredibly self-aware but also frustrating, i wish he had pushed into the self awareness more
- like he talks alot abt doubling and multiple faces, but he never actually gets into the how/what of it, he just keeps talking about the the why over and over again
- i felt like i understood it bc i have those same feelings and am surrounded by people with those feelings, i wouldn't be able to and don't trust cis people to be able to extrapolate what he has said into their own lived experience / take it with nuance
- powerful emotionally
- the sections could have been better ordered, i felt like the book oscillated between moving towards a more nuanced understanding of masculinity and then immediately regressed
- not to sound pretentious but i like purple prose and nice sentences, and that is often why i hate memoirs bc the writing is tedious to read
- kind of repetitive and really depressing
- incredibly self-aware but also frustrating, i wish he had pushed into the self awareness more
- like he talks alot abt doubling and multiple faces, but he never actually gets into the how/what of it, he just keeps talking about the the why over and over again
- i felt like i understood it bc i have those same feelings and am surrounded by people with those feelings, i wouldn't be able to and don't trust cis people to be able to extrapolate what he has said into their own lived experience / take it with nuance
- powerful emotionally