Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

7 reviews

pandorasirens's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, Infidelity, Homophobia, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Pedophilia

vurren's review

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Death of parent, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Pedophilia, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Dysphoria, and Mental illness

jonmayb's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

1.0

Fun Home told the story of Alison Bechdel's childhood and early adulthood. The structure is non-linear, and many of the events Bechdel recounts are either concretely or loosely tied to either her coming out or two her father's suspected suicide.
Nonetheless, soon after Alison comes out to her parents, she learns that her own father was also queer, but that he slept with young boys. Her father was a pedophile. He is hit by a truck and passes away soon after this is revealed to he. All of these particular details are first revealed early on in the story, and the rest of the story jumps around in recounting events Bechdel loosely correlates with them. Much of the story seems to be spent attempting to justify and rationalise her father's actions. Overall, this book was a pain in the ass to get through

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Content Warnings

Minor: Grief, Sexism, Pedophilia, and Suicide

kaimetcalfe's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Death, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Violence, Sexual content, Alcohol, Biphobia, Bullying, and Drug use

Minor: Pedophilia, Stalking, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, and Alcoholism

skudiklier's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I read this much more quickly and easily than I thought I would; I read Are You My Mother? a few years ago, and though I liked it a lot, I think it was denser, or slower, for me at least. Maybe I'll reread it now that I have the context of this book too. 

I don't really have a lot to say about this book, except that I liked it and would recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Homophobia, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual content and Pedophilia

marthadude's review

dark emotional funny reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Death, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Outing, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Sexual content, and Child abuse

Minor: Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, and Sexism

marigo1ds's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, and Suicide