Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons from a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery by Shou Arai

7 reviews

zydecovivo's review against another edition

informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual content, and Dysphoria

mangomerle's review

informative reflective slow-paced

2.75

The age gap is icky and I could not get past it. This reads much less like a memoir and more like an informational publication. Some of the cultural stuff was interesting, but overall I didn't really enjoy this read and found it kind of a slog to get through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Medical content, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

tetrootz's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Outing, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Pandemic/Epidemic

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

This is a collection of moments from the author's life and lgbtqia+ people they have interviewed. It flowed a little like a story being broken up by snippets of interview. There is a section with an age-gap couple that mentions they enjoy incest roleplay, which I was not a fan of. I wish the story flowed a bit smoother and kept one concept per page as some pages felt muddy when trying to read them like a standard format manga.  It was a brief dip into several queer concepts but ultimately didn't provide a whole much new information to me. There was a refreshing factor in hearing from an elder lgbtqia+ person, even if their journey is quite different. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Sexism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia and Infertility

Minor: Incest, Sexual assault, and Blood

robinks's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

There was a lot of information packed in, but it left me feeling a bit scattered (despite how Arai sorted everything into titled chapters). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Homophobia, Infertility, and Dysphoria

Minor: Incest, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

streberkatze's review against another edition

Others have mentioned it on here, and the appeoach to the subject just didn't work for me either. So much focus on appearances, and the internalized ageism and gender stereotypes were just palatable and entirely uninterrogated. The whole thing just read like the author complaining to their 15-year-younger partner for pages and pages. And because each chapter consists of comic strips that are only losely related thematically, the whole reading experience felt disjointed on top of that. This might work better for others, it just didn't work for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

indeedithappens's review

funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infertility, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Outing, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Classism