Ceraphina
Finding it a wild time going through reviews and people wanting all content about rape/sexual assault to be handled in a more palatable way than what Emma did with Peach.
The scenes are not palatable because rape is not something that should be palatable for your consumption. I think this was a really interesting take on what it can feel like for someone after the situation.
Genital mutilation after experiencing assault is not as un common as you'd think, just a friendly fyi.
Though due to the desire some people seem to have for a wrapped up bow for an experience that literally and genuinely doesn't end in the victims torture the millisecond at it's start, wellllll this isn't the book for you.
I give some grievance to the writing style/pace, but none due to its contents.
my fav girly book
2020 review: It's been a decade or so since I read this book. I think many years I was worried I wouldn't love it as much and this book had a huge impact on me when I was young. But I can happily say I had nothing to fear and it's still absolutely everything for me. I can't wait for Midnight Sun ❤
original review: I was reading books since birth. But this book took 10 year old me on a whirlwind adventure that furthered my love and obsession with reading. I'd do it all over again with no regrets.
Never once should someone ask: “Does the world hate women?” Because the answer is an irrefutable yes with a follow up of “What rock were you living under and can I go there now?”
Beatrix does a considerable job providing snippets to provide proof of this, and it is a great read for people wanting to explore women's (hopeful) rights, and basic back bone to feminism. She doesn't spend an awfully long time on every topic but it's so resourceful and quotable. If only this could be a mandated read.
Some quotes that will stick with me forever, down below:
“Sex work only exists insofar as sexism exists.”
“A priority for militarism, is how violent masculinities are made and maintained”
“Millions of women live in societies where violence or death is the penalty for answering back, loving another man, loving a woman, giving birth, going to school. Two women die every week in England because some man whom some woman doesn't love anymore simply wants to kill her. More than hundred million women are missing worldwide, dead from neglect.”
“But evolution towards equality is a fiction and a fraud. Women are not evolutionary failures.
Men seized the means of organization, men made the world's political systems and parties in their own interests and men still speak to women with forked tongue.”
