Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

7 reviews

sarahb919's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Really interesting book but a challenging read. Challenges a lot of preconceptions I had about South Africa and its people. Glad I read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment

outofthepinksky's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Racism, Violence, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Slavery, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

hannahleewhite's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Physical abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Alcoholism and Fatphobia

megsmagiclibrary's review against another edition

challenging funny informative fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Antisemitism

Minor: Fatphobia

clone's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Fatphobia

breadwitchery's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Fatphobia, Genocide, Mental illness, Rape, Slavery, Blood, Antisemitism, and Pregnancy

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)

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!

I found the attempted humorous framing of this story to be super distasteful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Racial slurs, Racism, and Excrement

Moderate: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Violence, and Antisemitism