Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

39 reviews

vaguelyredhead's review against another edition

adventurous reflective slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, and Alcohol

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Sexual content

tobiassoar's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

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

2.5

There are moments of brilliance where I truly understand how novel this book was in its time. 

However, the majority of the time I was either bored or repulsed by the racist and paedophilic passing comments by the narrator. 

I understand it’s a product of its time and should be treated as such, but it was truly a slog to get through at times. 

And if he loved Dean so much, they should have just kissed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Classism

wanderingwonderbread's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

timmytunter's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Drug use, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Alcohol, and Colonisation

bonesfor5dollars's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

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

2.25

I went into this book with the curiosity of the 'Beat Generation.' Counterculture movements have been a fascinating topic to me and so to read a book that 'captures the beat generation,' I was quite eager to dig into this book. However, what I got out of this was pure disappointment and just a poorly-aged book that contains questionable characters and ideas. While the writing style of Kerouac can be interesting at some points, I feel the book is entirely bogged down by the characters who are probably the most unlikable characters that I've seen in a book. How they describe people of color is just baffling especially from Sal, who has some of the most baffling descriptions and observations of African Americans, and Mexican Americans. The main characters also sexualize underage women a lot and get extremely bad by the end of the book, when they are in Mexico. Also, the manner in which women are presented in this book is just terrible as well, as the main characters often exploit women either for sex or for money and make comments on how women are objects. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Homophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Domestic abuse and Sexual content

nomatophobia's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

This book might have changed my life whether or not it's deserving. In the time that I was reading this, I took a few fun spontaneous adventures of my own and I'd like to believe it was a little bit inspired by the chaos of these pages. That being said, this is the definition of "does not hold up." I'm not sure how much of this was intentionally offensive because it seems for the most part it just wanted to show how the characters got along with so many different kinds of people, but if you tried to count the amount of slurs in here you'd go crazy. The lack of plot didn't bother me as much as bearing my 21st century eyes to this much bigoted language.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

kai_okay's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, and Pedophilia

plnnn's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexism

cyb's review against another edition

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, and Classism

hypocrisis's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

couldn't get past the racism, pedophilia and misogyny (unfortunately?). 
Selfish and self-destructive characters like Dean Moriarty can only be romanticised as 'angel(s) of terror' and prophets from the safe distance of a reader ...or a protagonist who's in a permanent state of intoxication.
I'm sure it was groundbreaking at the time, but the lifestyle described doesn't appeal to me, even though i do give into 'madness' at times and love 'kicks'. Maybe I'd get it if i had a real connection to american culture and jazz, or if i had a driver's license lol.  Maybe I'm too stuck in my middle-class ways to see it, but i didn't get the point of all these roadtrips just to do the same thing with the same people all over again.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual assault and Toxic friendship