Welcome to Litsy!

A challenging but important read covering how the red pill / incel movements pervade (more than we realise) for the harm of all people and their intersection with white supremacy.

Such an important read. I like that it is written by a UK author, so she looks throughout the world at this issue. Though unfortunately a lot of this has the US as ground zero. It is things I knew but didn't "KNOW"
Both enraging and informative.
First book for #NFNovember @Bookwormjillk

Incels.

Laura Bates

At its simplest the argument goes like this: if women‘s sexual autonomy has given them wicked & tyrannical control over men‘s lives, then women‘s liberation is at the root of all male suffering. Therefore, the obvious remedy is to remove women‘s freedom and independence and to use specifically sexual means (like rape & sexual slavery) to do so. In other words, the problem is not women having sex but women having the choice of whom to have sex with

“It is not women, or even feminists, who have limited, frustrated, diminished, hurt, and damaged men but masculinity itself or, rather, our society‘s constricting, toxic, self-defeating version of what it means to perform being a man. Yet every time anybody tries to make progress in tackling this particular version of masculinity, the MRM rises up as a united voice to condemn and undermine the attempt.”
Laura Bates

Feeling very lucky since I have already started both!

#Bookspin - Men Who Hate Women part of my #NFNovember with @Bookwormjillk
and
#DoubleSpin is my #RandomClassic which I will be completing this month! with @thearomaofbooks

Hibernation for now. Work and other things very stressful and I just can‘t read about these men anymore who‘s only thoughts in life are to rape and murder women 🥲 you have to be in a very good place to read this. Like being bludgeoned with hate.

A few minor criticisms: 1) It's a bit repetitive, 2) Domestic violence is not terrorism. It is disgusting, appalling, cowardly, and unacceptable. But it is not terrorism just because it is deeply upsetting. 3) She only dedicated one sentence to this, but she believes that the gender sections of toy stores should be eliminated. It's this type of nonsense that makes people hate liberals.

Other than that, this book is important and disturbing.

I'm 43, and I can't name even one. Nor do I want to.

Whoops. 😂

🤣🤣

(Continued)...consider sexual violence.

#TheMenWhoHateWomen is a terrifying must-read. Especially the first chapter * Men who kill Women * clearly proves how dangerous these groups have become and how even terrorist acts are committed by them.

#LauraBates #NonFiction

Terrifying but an important book!