A review by karimorton33
Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why by Jude Ellison S. Doyle

5.0

I really enjoyed this book and the deep dive that it took into the word trainwreck as it's used towards women, from history and now. These stories about trainwrecks are mainly read by women. As the book says, what do we get from reading/believing these things? Why do we feel the desire to see trainwrecks? I have to admit that I am guilty of some of the thoughts described, but this book has really opened my eyes. The book doesn't mention too many things that men have done, but the examples mentioned are for the most part worse (if you can consider some of the things the women do "bad") but don't cause these men any grief or change to their lives like it does for the women.

Some of my favourite quotes are:

"Men have problems, women are problems. We see them as problems rather than people."

"But in changing ourselves, and our definitions of womanhood, we have to stop believing that when a woman does something we don't like, we're qualified and entitled to punish her, violate her, or ruin her life."