Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

40 reviews

paigehf's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia, Self harm, and War

lilreddress's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and War

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Sexism, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, Grief, and Murder

sleepylit's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

One of my favorite books of all time. This was my second read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

markwillnevercry's review against another edition

0.5

So, there is a bit to tell. I really did not like this book. You might think "Ah, so you did not like it, because it was bad", but it wasn't. Marjane Satrapi does a very good job of showing how she grew up and how stuff changed her. However, it felt a bit like listening to your friend go through absolute shit, without recognizing that you also have problems that you have to deal with. Marjane Satrapi just kept going, because she wanted to tell her story and it was uncomfortable to read, specifically the Vienna part. As a separate note, this book is just in general giving the vibe of "i do not care about the way you feel, because i will never reflect on this", so we got slutshaming and fatphobia. I kind of feel like I wasted my time with this book. 

Reading notes:

Momo sucks ass.

She just accused man of a crime he didn't commit? And what she accused him of is not even comparible of her wearing lipstick? And her and her boyfriend are so happy about it? They deserve each other. 

The scene with the pills in uni. Just like, girly, if you have something on your heart, maybe don't throw it at the first person you see?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

I do not actually remember if there were examples of addiction, alcoholism and drug abuse, but I am not planning to reread the whole book to find them. It felt like they were there, but do not trust my word. Also, ableism is there for like a chapter, but it is bad.

illgiveyouahint's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Genocide, Homophobia, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Grief, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

cbh's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I have never read a book that so perfectly captures the feeling of freedom and all that one can gain and lose out of it. It is excellent! An easy page turner, and definitely a must-read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and War

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Child death, Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Torture, and Religious bigotry

betweentheshelves's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This is really such an accessible look at living in Iran during the war in the 1980s, which honestly not a lot of YA lit really covers. It's a realtively simple art style, but there are panels that really get the emotions across. Marjane feels a lot of things, and props to her parents for encouraging the freedom she desired. 

There are parts of this that are also hard to read, given the subject matter. It would make great required reading for a social studies class in high school. It will definitely make for good discussion tonight at our book club.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Drug use, Torture, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Homophobia and Rape

cofstars's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and War

daniellekat's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

2.5

Oof. I’m having a really hard time rating this one. On one hand, it was a beautiful look at one girl’s coming of age in an environment of war and oppression. But on the other hand, I really disliked Marjane (which feels harsh because this is non fiction) and the way the narrative was told. Each chapter felt disjointed and somewhat unreliable. I don’t know if I just had high expectations or this just didn’t work for me. Either way I would still recommend because it was an accessible look at the turmoil in Iran during the late 80s and early 90s. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt, and War

Moderate: Drug use, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Ableism and Homophobia

saviross's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed the way Marjane shared her story - the illustrations themselves were funny at times, very powerful at other times. I regret taking so long to read this book (after avoiding it in when it was an assigned reading in university), but am very happy to have read it now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Violence, Suicide attempt, and War

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Homophobia