Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Jaws by Peter Benchley

23 reviews

shetef's review against another edition

any author that uses the word "pediphile" to describe a foot fetishist should be shoved in a locker.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Misogyny

Moderate: Infidelity

graamcracker's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.25

Wow. I thought I would love this book because Jaws is one of my favorite movies - definitely not the case. One of the few instances where the movie was better. One star for the shark parts, and .25 for the conservation efforts Benchley did after the damage this book did to sharks. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

Minor: Homophobia and Rape

lorebug's review against another edition

2.0

i should have stayed curious

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Racism

jpolito's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Sexism, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Antisemitism

ghoulishshark's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I’m so glad that I never bought a copy of this book and just borrowed it from the library. I would never recommend this. If you love the Jaws movies like I do save yourself the time. 

The only good parts were the few scenes with the shark. I was expecting this to be a lot like the movie but this was like 90% about infidelity. The only reason I’m not rating this lower is that I don’t hate this book, I’m just
extremely disappointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Racism, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia, Rape, Vomit, and Lesbophobia

alicesayshi's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

A fun read that unfortunately suffers from being a product of its time re attitudes to women and POC. 
Ellen Brody is a great example of r/menwritingwomen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Racism

draven_deathcrush's review

I got hit with infidelity again and I'm so mad!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Infidelity

Moderate: Misogyny and Racism

puffball's review

I’m a huge fan of classic sci-fi, so I’m fairly used to sexism of misogyny and can typically move past it. But this author has a police detective complaining about how small a dead woman’s breasts were. He finds a person who’s been maimed and killed by a shark, and his literal first thought is how small and flat her breasts are. Absolutely not. Immediate dnf. Oh, and the detective had been reading a book that had gratuitous mentions of rape for literally no reason. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Rape, and Sexism

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

The book is weirder about women then It is about sharks which is saying something. It is weird about race but not in a way that’s coherent on way or the other that I could really go into it but if you have sensitivity to slurs there’s slurs about Japanese people and lesbians in the latter chapters. 

The book tries to have some conversation about toxic masculinity and the performance of it that the book is too sexist to have a coherent message about. For a book that comes across as respecting the main protagonist for being a cop it does have conservations about corruption and classism in tourist small towns including in politics, media and police. 

It’s an interesting experience because a book you go in assuming is man vs nature type of book it is more man vs man. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, and Classism

Moderate: Rape

rockyc5's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Minor: Cursing, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racism, and Vomit