Is the book too misogynist to read/recommend?
- Description
- There are books that make readers cringe because of the way they portray women. But is the book misogynist or is it just the product of a misogynist culture and its misogyny should be overlooked for its other good points. Add, vote, explain.
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- misogynist
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- rajukv, Settings, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explanations
- Settings: In this one the main female character can be replaced by a vagina in a way that is far more literal than in most books.
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15 reviews
½ 3.5
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Added 2015-03-03, 04:34 PM
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- bluepiano, ManWithAnAgenda
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- bluepiano: The hate & fear of women in this book is so extreme that it was surely the product of a diseased mind.
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- bluepiano : Haven't read it for a while but remember (male) bosses rather than women complained about.
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769 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
Score -1
Added 2021-12-07, 12:22 AM
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- bluepiano : In the book a man kills a woman for reasons that, as I remember, have nothing to do with her sex. The (female) author deplores the crime, so er not at all misogynistic.
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by Jeff Guinn
589 members
31 reviews
4
Score -1
Added 2015-03-03, 04:46 PM
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- bluepiano : I somehow don't think that misogyny would appear in a list of the 5 most troubling things about Charles Manson. And what makes the biography itself misogynistic?
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by Anonymous
148 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Score -1
Added 2021-12-07, 12:22 AM
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112 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Score -1
Added 2021-12-07, 12:22 AM
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32 members
½ 4.7
Score -1
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3 reviews
3.9
Score -2
Added 2015-03-03, 04:50 PM
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- bluepiano : Have thumbed down all Arabian Nights listings as though the stories may be misogynistic the misogyny would be cultural and the books are very much worth reading anyway. Besides, the women in them have healthy sex drives and the person who, after all those volumes, triumphs by virtue of cleverness is a woman.
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- bluepiano : I have no idea why this book is here.
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40 members
1 review
Score -2
Added 2015-03-03, 05:08 PM
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- bluepiano : This, like so many listings that've been selected by computer rather than members, is bloody ridiculous. Jeez Louise--sexist calamari? Miss World noodles? elegant pizza from Telegraph Hill that compels a diner to assault a woman?
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by Louis Rhead
27 members
2 reviews
4
Score -2
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by Scheherazade
12 members
½ 4.7
Score -2
Added 2015-03-03, 04:54 PM
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5 reviews
½ 3.4
Score -1000
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by Henry James
10,803 members
125 reviews
3.9
Score -1000
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by Jon Krakauer
8,912 members
223 reviews
3.9
Score -1000
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½ 3.6
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169 reviews
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½ 3.6
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½ 3.6
Score -1000
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½ 3.3
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by Edward Abbey
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5 reviews
4.2
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575 members
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3.2
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by Neil Gaiman
481 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
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½ 3.6
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4.1
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by Dave Sim
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3.9
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½ 3.5
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½ 3.4
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½ 3.7
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128 members
½ 4.4
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½ 4.3
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