Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson, Mark Manson

24 reviews

cynic_rising's review against another edition

Author spent too much time  complaining about past relationships, touting misogynistic viewpoints, and talking about jizz. This seemed more about overcompensating for his past than anything else. The first book I've ever DNF'd. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual content

lcenya's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.75

Despite the title I feel like fuck was used too much. It kind of felt like he was trying to fill out the pages. It’s also hard to read this book as a woman because there’s always some allusion to touching one inappropriately. Solid advice but it’s very clear that the author only had men in mind 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Misogyny, and Sexism

aaronmarkey's review against another edition

informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

I don't know how to rate self-help books, so I'm going to skip the stars.

It's quite good, much better than I'd expect from books of this genre. It's a really simple message of self-responsibility, respect, and managing the aspects of life you care about. Frankly, it's a really great, eye-opening book for a specific audience. I won't say anything in it is novel. But it does take aspects of various ancient philosophy and makes it approachable for a modern audience. A quick read and highly impactful in its messaging. 

Recommend, even for people skeptical of self-help stuff. The author is/was(?) a self-help PUA type of person, so the content is suburban white dude coded -- very much hit or miss for readers.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual content

op3's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing tense medium-paced

4.0

Really good book, it really did touch on some deeper points and behaviors I didn’t realize affected me so deeply.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Misogyny

Minor: Sexual content

The book touches on dark themes, it’s the self help book that doesn’t fuck around, so don’t think too much is gonna be left out.

miratrix's review against another edition

slow-paced

1.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Cursing, Sexism, and Sexual content

aseel_reads's review against another edition

1.0

Boring man, nothing impactful, definitely worried about the people who find this useful/teaches them something, get a therapist to teach you better skills faster (also, he fully misunderstood the milgram psychology experiment 🙄) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Cursing, Misogyny, and Classism

choicepotatoes_20231023's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

2.0

not for me + problematic
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i probably should have stopped listening after this casually transphobic gem:

“[...] the decision to finally dump that deadbeat boyfriend whom you caught wearing your pantyhose a few too many times.”

...but i am the worst combination of stubborn and optimistic.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Misogyny

Minor: Transphobia

viertelvorvier's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Death

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

ukiyo227's review against another edition

1.0

The way he talks about women is honestly disgusting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

aoifemwalsh's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Misogyny