Kim Harris
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How did this ever get published? I'm all for free speech but this is pure misogeny. It's hateful. The author shows their true colours. And so does the publisher. Why are you listing it as a goodread?
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Nat
Other people seem to be taking your premise at face value, so let me just clarify: this is a book that loves women. Deeply, fiercely, profoundly. I cannot imagine reading it in good faith and coming away with any other impression.
Curtis
"I'm all for free speech" doesn't get a "but" after. Who cares if you agree with a book, you baby? People can write what they want, and anti-free speech people like you on both sides of the aisle are trash.
Jordi
Can you clarify how this book is misogynistic? Just read it and I don't see how you can fail to miss the fact that the premise of this book turns men into literal monsters - men are explicitly the primary antagonists. Of course if your viewpoint is that transwomen are not women and you want to push trans violence and trans erasure, then this book still isn't misogynistic, you're just mad that anyone would portray transwomen as women and also the heroes of a fictional universe that literally has no affect on you. But hey, free speech cuts both ways, right? JK Rowling is allowed to publish books perpetuating harmful stereotypes about trans people being bathroom rapists, and Gretchen is allowed to publish books where TERFs and men are called out for the fascism they represent.
Alyssa Bartoshevich
You know what? I'm bumping this up higher on my TBR pile just to p*ss you off more, TERF.
Deirdre
I am going to answer your question as if you asked it in good faith, though you clearly did not do so.
Showing that women can be hateful bigots in their own right is not misogyny. Showing that transwomen are victims of transmisogyny themselves is not misogyny. Showing that women as well as men can be capable of evil and screwing the world over is not misogyny. Showing women and men (transmen like Robbie are men too!) working together to overcome oppression is not misogyny.
Participating in a misinformation campaign against a transwomen author because of how she chooses to express her thoughts and feelings about the oppression she and other transwomen face on a regular basis, a now that is misogyny, transmisogyny in fact.
Showing that women can be hateful bigots in their own right is not misogyny. Showing that transwomen are victims of transmisogyny themselves is not misogyny. Showing that women as well as men can be capable of evil and screwing the world over is not misogyny. Showing women and men (transmen like Robbie are men too!) working together to overcome oppression is not misogyny.
Participating in a misinformation campaign against a transwomen author because of how she chooses to express her thoughts and feelings about the oppression she and other transwomen face on a regular basis, a now that is misogyny, transmisogyny in fact.
Elizabeth
the is an incredible book that explores the lives and experiences of many types of women.
if you do not like it because that includes trans women then that is your loss.
if you do not like it because that includes trans women then that is your loss.
Zephyr
*Misogyny, and it looks like you understand the concept about as well as you can spell it.
Amy
What is misogynistic about it? Due the very nature of the apocalypse, the vast majority of the characters are women. Did you expect that they would all be virtuous immortals, regardless of the fact that this is a dystopian horror?
Elias
I don’t agree with a lot of this book’s ideas but it has every right to get published. Free speech means that anything should be able to get published, whether people like it or not. That’s how it works and it’s important.
Ellen H
I think you may mean misandry, not misogyny (correct spelling).
And anyone has the right to write whatever they feel they want to. You don't have to read it.
And anyone has the right to write whatever they feel they want to. You don't have to read it.
Dr. Andy
Something that has been missed here between the other answers is the publishing is an industry and therefore a private business that does not operate under the first amendment. When authors sign with an agent and/or a publisher there is a legal agreement in place that dictates terms and things that can/can't be said. It most likely changes between publishers too since not all publishers are the same. It's just like when someone signs up for an account on social media. You agree to their terms and services which means you surrender your first amendment rights to an extent. The first amendment protects people from being sued by the government. It does not mean there can't be consequences (ie yelling fire in a theatre and getting fined). But your whole premise here is false. Sorry you're unhappy that this book was published, but there's literally millions of books published. Don't read this one if you know you won't like it.
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