Litsy

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All | Laura Bates

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.

TrishB I couldn‘t get through this one as it was so awful! Well done. 6d

Balibee146 @trishb I think she is excellent at describing all the layers feeding into these subcultures in accessible language, which is helping. It is hard to stomach though for sure.... Half a chapter a day is about all I can take at a time.... 6d

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Imagen_leigh

Lessons in Chemistry Special Edition (Special) | Bonnie Garmus

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I read the first nine chapters of this book in January this year. At that time, I thought that I didn‘t really like it that much, and I didn‘t know why everyone else was so into it. But, I picked it up yesterday and couldn‘t put it down till I finished it. My guess is that when I first started it I was just so overloaded with school and work that I couldn‘t enjoy it. Finishing this book was much more enjoyable than when I started it.

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Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win | Jessica Valenti

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We all have certain political issues that are our most important. For me, abortion rights are among them for the health and safety of all women. So, I keep up on what‘s going on. But I still didn‘t know some of the infuriating things Valenti reveals in this factual, straightforward clearinghouse of what‘s happened with abortion since the fall of Roe. This is a vital resource for all in the US.

ChaoticMissAdventures I follow her on all social medias, she is incredibly informed and so easily relays information. She is great. 3w

GingerAntics I‘ve always been of the opinion that what a person does with their body is their business, as long as it doesn‘t harm another person. This is apparently amazingly radical these days. 🤷🏼‍♀️ If a woman wants or needs an abortion, that‘s none of my business. It‘s none of anyone‘s business but hers. I feel like I‘ve been radicalised by the conservative push to force women to be pregnant. 3w

Hooked_on_books @ChaoticMissAdventures She‘s terrific. She does really good work. I‘m glad she‘s making good information accessible to everyone and especially to young women. 3w

Hooked_on_books @GingerAntics I hear you. It‘s not something that should be legislated. Politicians have proven over and over that they don‘t understand the medicine, so they need to back the F off. 3w

GingerAntics @Hooked_on_books 100%!!! I usually hold this position for everything from tattoos and piercings to sex work and posing for playboy. If you want to, if you‘re consenting, if you‘re making the choice, if no one is getting hurt, you do you. Maybe that is radical. I don‘t know. No one is worried about most of that stuff, though. Just the abortion stuff. 🙄 3w

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AnneCecilie

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women | Kate Manne

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The title is pretty self explanatory in what its about.

I feel that I finally had some arguments if I ever where to get into a discussion with a pro-lifer. And that actually feels great.

For me gaslighting was a term that suddenly turned about and was everywhere. Now I feel that I finally understand what it is and how it‘s used

I‘m so glad #SheSaid made me aware of this book so I read it

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘m glad you liked it, or at least got some interesting things from it. Her other book Down Girl was very good too.

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa For gaslighting, I think I need to track down the original play now and read it. 4w

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melissajayne

Lessons in Chemistry Special Edition (Special) | Bonnie Garmus

My April #bingobookspin list

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4w

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DebinHawaii

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women | Kate Manne

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#Read2025

Finished today for #SheSaid March & it‘s one of those books you can‘t really like because it‘s so damn frustrating especially in our current world but it also an important read. I missed Manne‘s previous book Down Girl but I understand that this book builds & expands on it & focuses on male entitlement & how patriarchy “punishes women for not giving men the moral goods to which they are, by the terms of our social contract entitled.”⬇️

Riveted_Reader_Melissa, DieAReader

DebinHawaii … Published in 2020, the examples like the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, incel gun rampages, and the #MeToo movement are still relevant in 2025 since little has changed & we have even gone further backwards in some respects. Still reading this book, spreading the message & most importantly acting on it are the only ways to bring about change. 4w

DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 4w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women | Kate Manne

Hello #SheSaid. Posting a bit later today. I hope you are all finishing up with the book and if not learning a lot, at least feeling less alone and “gas lighted” when you are in certain situations and being told it‘s normal, not a problem, etc.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 4w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 🙃 4w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Wow! The tags even posted without issues today! I need to post late more often 🤣 4w

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Bookwormjillk @Riveted_Reader_Melissa 😂😂😂 4w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Bookwormjillk last week, I tried for literally hours. Logged out, back in, tried again. Let it sit after I hit enter, tried typing each in individually and then picking from the drop-down list of names. Anything I could think of….and nothing. I gave up after a few hours and just hoped you‘d find it by the tag. Today, copy & pasted the list in and it went right through and popped up as a comment immediately. 2 seconds 4w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Litsy may be gaslighting me 😂 4w

DebinHawaii @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Hah! But how frustrating! I finished the book this morning. It was a good but also frustrating read. 4w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @DebinHawaii I felt the same, but I also feel better knowing that I‘m not imagining the problems or the scope of the problems 4w

DebinHawaii @Riveted_Reader_Melissa So true! 4w

vlwelser I'm glad the tags worked. I'm ready (ish) to jump back in for the next book. I don't have the book yet but it's on hold at the library so forward progress is happening. 4w

AllDebooks I enjoyed this, despite its reiteration of well documented inequalities. Written well with some good insights 4w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser sometimes any forward progress is good progress. Even if it‘s just a tiny bit 4w

staci.reads I thought the book finished strong. The chapter Unelectable- On the Entitlement to Power - was especially relevant after the last election. The part about the backlash against Klobachar after her perceived "disloyalty" to Al Franken was new information for me. I really liked her discussion of communality and the effect that expectation has on women in power. That hit home for me personally. 4w

vlwelser 🤗 4w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @staci.reads there was a great footnote about Harris too, from the primaries…which was very relevant now too. 4w

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