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mang0es 's review for:
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
by Jane Ward
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I really enjoyed the chapters of this book, pretty much reading/listening to them in one setting each on different days. My only qualm is that they felt a little bit loosely tied together as a whole, mainly (to me) because it wasn't always clear who the audience was meant to be, or that the audience slightly shifted from chapter to chapter.
From a bisexual perspective I found chapters 2 and 3, and the beginning of 5 to be the most informative and interesting as an answer to questions many queer people have about why straight people are "like that" as it were, and what is possible to do about that. Chapters 1 and 4, although entertaining at points, didn't really present a lot of new ideas to me, making me think it was addressed more towards a straight audience. But then so much of it was about hammering in queer aversion and deep dislike of straight people/culture that I started to wonder whether a straight person reading it would bother reading past a few pages? So I was pondering that, but in any case I did like the book & have some new ideas/framing to take from it.
From a bisexual perspective I found chapters 2 and 3, and the beginning of 5 to be the most informative and interesting as an answer to questions many queer people have about why straight people are "like that" as it were, and what is possible to do about that. Chapters 1 and 4, although entertaining at points, didn't really present a lot of new ideas to me, making me think it was addressed more towards a straight audience. But then so much of it was about hammering in queer aversion and deep dislike of straight people/culture that I started to wonder whether a straight person reading it would bother reading past a few pages? So I was pondering that, but in any case I did like the book & have some new ideas/framing to take from it.