A review by stephanieridiculous
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
medium-paced
0.0
If I could give this negative stars I would.
This is a disgusting love letter to capitalism and patriarchy. The examples used to illustrate the authors points are rife with fatphobia, sexism, misogyny; with caviler attitudes about abuse and child rape.
I'm not being hyperbolic, either. Literal child sexual slavery was framed as a quirky problem to solve in order to decrease HIV/AIDS numbers, with no acknowledgement that young girls shouldn't be prostituting themselves in order to survive, regardless of if HIV/AIDs is a risk factor or not. Every story has a hero, and often that hero is a "noble white person out to save the communities of color that just couldn't fix things themselves."
The few nuggets of useful information are absolutely not worth the garbage heap of overwriting that exalts some of the most distrusting aspects of American society.
(I had to read this for work, I would have rage quite after the first few chapters of enforcing toxic diet culture if I could have.)
This is a disgusting love letter to capitalism and patriarchy. The examples used to illustrate the authors points are rife with fatphobia, sexism, misogyny; with caviler attitudes about abuse and child rape.
I'm not being hyperbolic, either. Literal child sexual slavery was framed as a quirky problem to solve in order to decrease HIV/AIDS numbers, with no acknowledgement that young girls shouldn't be prostituting themselves in order to survive, regardless of if HIV/AIDs is a risk factor or not. Every story has a hero, and often that hero is a "noble white person out to save the communities of color that just couldn't fix things themselves."
The few nuggets of useful information are absolutely not worth the garbage heap of overwriting that exalts some of the most distrusting aspects of American society.
(I had to read this for work, I would have rage quite after the first few chapters of enforcing toxic diet culture if I could have.)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia
Minor: Child abuse and Trafficking