Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
4 reviews
megsmagiclibrary's review against another edition
challenging
funny
informative
fast-paced
3.75
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Antisemitism
Minor: Fatphobia
clone's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexism, and Gun violence
Minor: Fatphobia
breadwitchery's review against another edition
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Graphic: Racism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Animal death, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: War, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Death, Violence, Misogyny, Excrement, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Blood, Slavery, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Cursing, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Genocide, Antisemitism, and Rape
yavin_iv's review against another edition
Got about 2/3 through. Mostly a fine introduction to life in South Africa during/right after apartheid but there's a story around that 2/3 mark where like--(cw antisemitism) I found the attempted humorous framing of this story to be super distasteful.
Spoiler
after Trevor explains that Black people in South Africa mostly understood Hitler as one of history's many strongmen, which led to people picking "Hitler" as their sons' European name, he tells a story about how he DJ'd at a Jewish school with his dance hype friend of that name he and the 90s/00s dance chant of "go [name]! go [name]!" for said friend, and a MASSIVE misunderstanding ensued. Trevor and his friend thought the Jewish people were upset about sexualized dances and were being racist, and like doubled down on the chant before cursing them out and leaving. The white Jewish people did go into "you people" territory in confronting them, but it was a bad situation all around between two marginalized groups of people who didn't understand each other or how they were each inflicting hurt. Most of the stories Trevor tells in this book are done so in a humorous light, but this one is just--it's more sad than anything!Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Excrement, and Animal death
Moderate: Antisemitism, Violence, Fatphobia, Gun violence, and Alcoholism
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