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Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson
12 reviews
purcellapple's review
3.75
Graphic: Toxic friendship and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Bullying, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Racism, and Alcoholism
bmpicc's review
3.0
I'm not sure I know anyone at this point who has not been invited to a "party", let alone how many of us have been an active part of one. Yes, even me. I sold ********* when our son was first diagnosed with allergies because we didn't know how deep his issues went. I didn't know where to turn for safe cleaning & hygiene products. I was a new mom and an easy target. We all have a story.
Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Classism, Cancer, Pandemic/Epidemic, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Alcoholism, and Racism
divyab's review
3.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Addiction, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Classism and Emotional abuse
raereads23's review
4.0
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol
Minor: Sexism, Racism, Ableism, Classism, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Misogyny, and Gaslighting
amsswim's review
3.75
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
Moderate: Cancer, Sexism, Body shaming, Classism, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Racism, Misogyny, and Bullying
Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault
fkshg8465's review against another edition
5.0
The author also opened my eyes to how societally insidious MLMs are. But she makes total sense about how it’s another prop for White supremacy and White patriarchy. I especially abhorred her MLM’s response to COVID, Black Lives Matter, and the 2020 election.
I loved the reason why she wrote the book. It’s easy to say it was to make a profit. That was probably a factor, but her repentance seems genuine and part of her recovery (making amends). So I hope it reaches all the people who need to hear what she’s saying.
Graphic: Torture, Addiction, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Racism, Alcoholism, and Toxic friendship
miss__manga__'s review
3.0
There was a lot of “these schemes don’t allow anyone who isn’t white upper middle class to succeed” but I don’t think she fully acknowledged or understands how much she harmed those below her and how terrible she was. This was definitely written to make herself look reflective and inclusive but it doesn’t seem like she’s actually done a lot of reflection to how she harassed others into essentially going into debt and her inclusiveness seems surface level.
She discusses a lot of issues about how these schemes are bad but never with depth or thorough analysis. A lot of surface level arguments. This book needed to decide if it wanted to be factual or a memoir - the mix did not work.
I’m also confused because she mentioned Facebook still being smallish at the start but then she doesn’t quit until the pandemic? But the time line didn’t seem to add up with the amount of years she worked…
If this had been chopped in half I would have liked it more, but the repetition got to the point where I was listening at over double speed.
Graphic: Alcohol and Alcoholism
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Bullying, Gaslighting, Pandemic/Epidemic, Addiction, Body shaming, and Racism
Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual content
tinyoceankingdoms's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Alcoholism
Moderate: Ableism, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, and Cancer
Minor: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, and Classism
lilybear3's review against another edition
5.0
Writing is casual while giving readers information. At times, it is humorous with little quips, but overall, it is vulnerable and honest. I also appreciated the design of the cover. Best of all, the beginning of each chapter had flow chart/pyramid graphic of how her rank and downline continued to grow (and diminish). Absolutely genius.
While I'm super interested in the topic, objectively, this book is great and should be on everyone's reading list. I also appreciated that she says people who are in MLMs are simultaneously victims and abusers (may have used a different term, enablers?). It can seem like only fools would fall for these scams but the scams prey on vulnerable people and use compelling rhetoric. She says the book isn't to scold people, but to hopefully help them realize the danger these companies are. In addition, there's a paragraph about how be there for someone you know in an MLM. Importantly, she has resources for help with MLMs and addiction in the back of the book.
Graphic: Sexism, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Classism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Xenophobia, Racism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Cancer, Religious bigotry, and Medical content
Minor: Body shaming and Homophobia
moonyreadsbystarlight's review against another edition
4.5
A big part that I wasn't expecting but was interesting to hear about the author's experience with alcoholism and recovery (and makes just so much sense considering, not just the MLM culture but "wine mom" culture more broadly). This was a really entertaining and informative book! I listened to it on audiobook, narrated by the author.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Drug use, and Racism
Moderate: Emotional abuse and Cancer
Minor: Sexual assault