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

Damn.

This took me a while to finish. The subject matter was tough to get through, as to be expected. The book contained ACTUAL abusive messages posted online. They were horrific.

I finished the book feeling a bit numb. I went to bed after I finished since it was after midnight. Afterward, one quote stuck out:

"Men like Matt McGorry, Patrick Stewart, Barack Obama, David Schwimmer, and many more continue to use their personal platforms to speak, write, and sing about the problem with prescriptive masculinity, exploring nuanced and new ways to examine being a man. We need the bulk of this work to come from men. If masculinity is the problem, it is men who must invent and drive new forms of manhood. The one thing everyone seems to agree on is that it is fairly fruitless for feminists to be seen to be telling boys the right way to be a man. That doesn’t mean that the project of reforming masculinity has failed. It means that, as with so much of the heavy lifting of the pursuit of equality in our society, the hard work has been foisted on the wrong people."

And women need to recognize the part we play in all of this; we are raising these men. This shit starts at home.

We need to be raising our boys to be respectful, not raising our girls to shrink themselves when they’re disrespected.

Women need to be loud.

Excellent book. 10/10

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LAURA BATES is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, a crowdsourced collection of stories from women around the world about their experiences with gender equality. Laura has received the British Empire Metal in the Queen's Birthday Honours, the WMC Digital Media Award from the Women's Media Center, and the Georgina Henry prize; has been named in the BBC Woman's Hour Power List Game Changers; and has won Cosmopolitan's Ultimate Woman of the Year Award. She was also named in CNN's 10 Visionary Women List. Follow her efforts on Twitter @everydaysexism.

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