A review by xxthefoolonthehillxx
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell

Did not finish book. Stopped at 4%.
I was looking forward to this book because I’d heard positive things about it. I got 20 minutes into the audiobook and I’m dnfing because I have no desire to hear him spew bs about how rapes are caused by a misunderstanding between strangers (as implied when he brought up Brock Turner and child sexual abusers like Nassar). In the introduction Gladwell suggests that not understanding strangers is a large contributor to rape and police officers murdering black people and I vehemently disagree and was disgusted with the implication. This book is an erasure of trauma experienced by victims of sexual abuse and racism and I have no interest in reading about that. 
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