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schnanko's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Abortion, and Sexual harassment
lubarbara's review against another edition
3.0
Sin embargo, hay experiencias universales que vivimos todas las mujeres y se encuentran muy bien retratadas. La invitación a cuestionarnos, pero a ser más pacientes y amorosas con nosotras mismas es muy clara y necesaria.
Graphic: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Slavery
Moderate: Child death, Hate crime, and Murder
clairewithane's review against another edition
1.5
Graphic: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault
lady_moon's review against another edition
1.5
Bad Feminist had a good start. I had fun listening in the beginning, I enjoyed her talking about her time as an advisor, about privilege and her time as professor. There was an essay about scrabble...? That was boring and pretty pointless. Then there was an essay about how to have women friends, which was... a list with just common sense and stupid points. But I tell myself, okay I can ignore that.
But there were also essays that talked about random pieces of media? Some shows and books, some critique, like... I don't know any of this media, except The Hunger Games, so I wasn't really invested in all this. I wasn't fan of the The Hunger Games essay though. I just didn't care to be honest? It didn't add anything to the conversation. If this was a memoir or something, fine, but it isn't - this is book with essays named Bad Feminist. Such essays were just a little out of place. And I personally was annoyed at the unnecessary amatonormativity that was present.
Now, I could have ignored all of this. I really could have. But then the trigger warning discussion came. And it pissed me off. For the most part there was nuance and dissection, about censorship and what can be a trigger. But then she basically said she can't understand how some people live in the illusion of safety and that trigger warning won't protect them from what already is inside them. I'm sorry but what the fuck?? Does she know think "warning" means? It's not there to protect you or to prevent you from consuming this media (as she also thinks) but to warn you what you're going to consume so you can take care of yourself if needed. What was this bullshit, honestly? This is the first time I really felt there's something not quite right with this book.
(Not to mention before that there's a heavy discussion of rape and her own rape and right after that to have is an essay about trigger warning... I mean, that's petty.)
Then there's one waaayyy too long essay that criticize Fifty Shades of Grey. Woman, what the hell 😭 We all know this book is shit, there really wasn't need of such deep critique of it (half of which is a rant, honestly). I was really tempted to DNF at that point.
Other thing that baffled me: The hunting of witches is, apperantly, because rulers wanted to prevent abortions?? 😭 What is this woman talking about, I- Tell me you don't know anything outside of USA history without telling you don't know anything outside of USA.
The hunting of witches isn't some trick the government to take down people who know the medicine for abortion (maybe that was someone's idea, I don't know). Hunting witches was rooted in superstition, xenophobia, bigotry and most of all - misogyny. Don't make it related to something irrelevant just so it can appeal to American issue.
After that it was a series of discussion of different movies with Black representations. I knew exactly two of this movies/Tv series, one of which I haven't watched. This was curious for me, as a white person who doesn't watch a lot of these genres, let alone critique of it.
Overall, there just... wasn't anything new? Anything even remotely deeper to add to the discussion regarding feminism. Not even to the conversation about race to be honest? There wasn't anything new, anything interesting, not even in the way it was presented to us. I do enjoyed some things in the beginning but then it quickly became painfully average. Kudos for the advertisement lol, I was really convinced I'm picking up an amazing book.
Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abortion, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism
Moderate: Bullying, Hate crime, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Slavery, Vomit, and Acephobia/Arophobia
Minor: Eating disorder, Medical content, and Outing
emwgrace's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Slavery, Violence, and Police brutality
Minor: Racial slurs
cassielaj's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cursing, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, and Police brutality
There are essays in this book that are challenging and cover tragic content, but Gay does so in a very compassionate way with a great deal of care.beca_reads's review against another edition
3.5
I went into this thinking it was going to be more statistical based but was more so Gay's personal journey with being a feminist while drawing on feminist research and global events To begin with I was not so sure on the writing style but I think maybe some of the earlier essay's were just weaker than some of the later essay's in the book. I did really enjoy how Gay talked about literature and other forms of the media throughout the book, It's left me with lots of good recommendations to read or watch and added a critical lens to media I've already consumed.
Graphic: Ableism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Classism
anger566's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism
mydearwatsonbooks's review against another edition
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Abortion
Moderate: Racial slurs and Pregnancy
Minor: Ableism
Use of r-word; references to Bill Cosby, Sherman Alexis, and Dave Chappelle (not in trouble at time of publication; references to Jerry Sandusky, Richard Pryor, Daniel Tosh, Robin Thicke, and othersadrigodebison's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Rape