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Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
by Abigail Shrier
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
fast-paced
That was a really hard book to get through, despite Abigail's skill with a pen. The subject matter was dark, and it only took me so long to get to, because of the difficulty of the subject matter. Despite this, the book is well written, and the various anecdotes throughout help to paint a picture of the statistics they're set to match. Usually, I don't review nonfiction books in the traditional manner of their fictional counterparts, instead writing down what I've learned, ad as such I believe that the main take aways for me are autogynephilia and social contagion. There's also some interesting things about feminism that I might've gotten wrong. Maybe Simone de Beauvoir was correct within her diagnosis, but not her solutions.
In addition to this, the book primarily exists to ask the question of why a mental illness that only affected a vanishingly small portion of primarily men has blown up to fall beneath the domination of teenage girls. The answer is social contagion through social media, a corrupted psychological assocation, a socially ingrained hatred of aspects of feminity, and gender ideaology
Irreversible Damage gets four stars, and I'm glad that it was written and that I was able to make it through the ordeal.
In addition to this, the book primarily exists to ask the question of why a mental illness that only affected a vanishingly small portion of primarily men has blown up to fall beneath the domination of teenage girls. The answer is social contagion through social media, a corrupted psychological assocation, a socially ingrained hatred of aspects of feminity, and gender ideaology
Irreversible Damage gets four stars, and I'm glad that it was written and that I was able to make it through the ordeal.