Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel

12 reviews

bashsbooks's review

emotional funny lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I've long heard chatter about Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For - how you can you be in queer spaces & not eventually hear of her groundbreaking comics? - but I didn't have much of an idea about what the strip was about, aside from dykes. Well, it's about their lives, loves, jobs, educations, families, and politics, and every messy bit that pops up in those areas. The strip has an extremely diverse cast of characters, parrying the conservative complaint that characters who are marginalized on multiple axes is modern woke bullshit. It's also refreshingly inclusive - though some of the characters struggle with the concept of transgender, the comic itself is affirming and depicts trans people as real human beings. This should not be a big deal, but it feels revolutionary to me. And, on a related note, Lois is my favorite of the dykes. (Seriously, the comic that discusses bisexual lesbians AND trans men in the same strip changed my life. Those are not modern made-up things or tumblr identities! Here they are, being discussed in our community long before the popularization of the Internet. So validating.) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, and Pregnancy

Minor: Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Vomit, Police brutality, Abortion, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Bullying, Excrement, War, and Misogyny

redus_reuse_recycle's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

A book that I put off finishing for months because I was so sad at the idea of saying goodbye. 

(Not to get sappy but) this book definitely helped shape and form my butch identity and made me feel a little less alone. (Much to the fear of the author in the intro). 

I’m not religious but this book is like The Bible to me. Go dykes! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Animal death

robinks's review

emotional funny informative reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The characters were really well thought-out, and it was nice to see them and their relationships evolve over the years. There was also a lot of historical information included, and at times, it was a bit much. I felt like some plot points were omitted, but perhaps it would make more sense if I read it sporadically over a longer period of time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Infidelity, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Mental illness

Moderate: Ableism, War, Biphobia, Cancer, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Xenophobia and Abortion

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging funny informative slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Biphobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Deadnaming

Minor: Racism, Hate crime, and War

cms0899's review

funny inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Homophobia, War, and Transphobia

Moderate: Cancer

orchidd's review

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Infidelity

arsenic_'s review

funny informative inspiring medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Animal death

Minor: Abortion, Homophobia, Outing, Sexism, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Ableism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Cancer, Classism, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racism, War, Gaslighting, and Infidelity

town_scar's review

challenging emotional funny informative slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Infidelity, Homophobia, Deadnaming, Religious bigotry, Mental illness, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Cursing

Moderate: Misogyny, Alcohol, Animal death, Biphobia, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Addiction, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Grief, Classism, and Car accident

Minor: Abortion, Ableism, Bullying, Drug use, Dementia, Xenophobia, Torture, and Islamophobia

liesbethvv's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Very entertaining but nothing to read in one sitting as it can turn into a bit of a slug. Spread out your reading and start to love these dykes!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Cancer, Toxic relationship, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, and Pregnancy

lovegriefandgender's review

challenging emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Yet curiously, against the sweeping backdrop of history... everyday life pretty much continues.

There's a bid, at the moment, for stories about happy queer adults. I prefer this: the struggle to find happiness against the endless and brutal onslaughts of a system that is not designed for us and compels us — again and again — to hurt ourselves and each other. Then there are these snatches of joy and the glimpses of a better life and a story that never really ends. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Dysphoria, Racism, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Biphobia, Sexual harassment, Ableism, and Transphobia