Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

42 reviews

bcope84's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Abortion, and Sexual harassment

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is full of triggers, so be forewarned before you read it. It filled me with shame for having voted for Reagan the first time I got to vote (I was only mimicking my parents’ votes, but still…). It also makes me wonder why the Islamic culture is the enemy when there are so many parallels in the White evangelical culture that run this country. The book also makes clear to me that everything wrong with the US is perpetuated by this same group.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, and War

madscientistcat's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.75

Incredibly informative and impeccably researched. If you want to understand what evangelicals really are and how the community got to where they are now and why they’ve had their outsized impact on the US government, this is it. You will leave this book understanding that and also probably depressed and anxious. The definition of “thanks, I hate it.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Gaslighting

Minor: Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Rape, Slavery, War, and Deportation

sophmcgraw's review

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Sexual harassment

elnelson's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Islamophobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, War, and Deportation

jbrando28's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, and War

emmeline_ahh's review

informative medium-paced

4.75

this was equal parts cathartic and deeply infuriating. it’s like I grew up watching a show that I convinced myself was my favorite show ever and as I grew up I realized I don’t think I ever liked the show and then a book comes out about every actor who was in the show (the Grahams, the Falwells, TobyMac, Natalie Grant, the guy who wrote the Left Behind series, Ronald Reagan, Chip and Joanna Gaines briefly, the entirety of the Southern Baptist Convention—like it’s a deep cast you know) airing out all their dirty secrets except they’re not dirty secrets it’s just things they’ve literally said and stood for. also it’s like the show writers came out and stated for the record that I was never welcome to watch their show in the first place and also they hate me personally. even though I already decided I didn’t like the show and never really did and even though it’s information I suspected all along but never fully confirmed, it somehow still feels like it ruined my childhood? 

basically, if you have any sort of religious trauma including but not limited to being in a religious community and at the same time being a woman, being gay, existing outside of the gender binary, having a super toxically masculine dad/father figure, being a kid who got spanked, being someone interested in science, being someone who cared more about helping people than proselytizing them, being a pacifist—it hits a little (a lot) close to home and it will piss you off but it’s a really good read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Homophobia, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia

Minor: Pedophilia, Rape, and Transphobia

burdasnest's review

challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

 At times nauseating, I ultimately think this is a must-read for understanding the United States today. This treatise establishes facts and presents a comprehensive explanation of how masculinity has been especially twisted over the past century to the point of electing Donald Trump. It's tough to swallow, but it feels like a large chunk of the population are living in a completely different established reality, even in my own backyard. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Abortion, Sexual harassment, and War

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Fatphobia, Genocide, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Antisemitism, and Gaslighting

mswarning's review

informative slow-paced

4.25

It's hard to say that I "really like" this book or think it's "amazing." I can't describe how many times it made me angry, like when pastors or other authority figures were given passes when they accused of sexual or child abuse. People just chalked it up to their god-given "masculinity." This book is not snarky or humorous despite the impression the title might give. It's a cultural foray into white evangelicalism in the US.

I did not like the narrator. She sounded robotic, bored, and dispassionate. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Racism, and Xenophobia

montyalmoro's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment