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5 ⭐

47pts #tbrread #Mistletoemaniacs #wintergames @Clwojick (I've decided that apart from the weekly count I'm only going to post my points on review posts).

Relatable and sadly frustrating

This is brilliant. 💪🏼

This is a book everyone should read. The statistics that are mentioned are frightening and eye-opening. If everyone read this and acted in its message, the world would be a better place 🗺 🌍 👩‍🎓👩‍⚕️👷‍♀️👮‍♀️👩‍🔧👩🏼‍🔬👩‍⚖️👩‍🚀👩‍✈️👩‍🚒

This happened in the town where I used to work. The school that Lucy worked at was one of the feeder primary schools to the one I worked at. I vividly remember this happening and followed it in the news as the story unfolded. Parents were even interviewed outside the school, giving transphobic comments, which were published in the media. Disgusting treatment of a vulnerable woman who had had the courage to come out in a difficult job to do so.

Everything about this book just tells it exactly like it is. Everyone should read this. And every man in particular.

I really love this book, my new book stand/holder, this cup and saucer from my Nan and the tea that‘s in it (Whittard Tippy Assam👌🏼) I‘ll be sad when I‘ve finished this one, but also happy that I can move on to the rest of my (yuge) TBR list!

I‘m starting to find this book triggering, which is odd as I‘m generally pretty good at channelling my emotions into anger with anything social justice-related. I think it‘s because the tweets/posts/submissions are from real women and are phrased in such a way as to make things personal. I really feel like I need to continue though, even though it‘s uncomfortable reading. I also feel like every man I know needs to read this.

I got this new book holder cushion and it‘s brilliant! I thought it might be a bit rubbish as things never work as well as they look like they should, but this is great! It‘s making holding my book so much easier! And also, it looks like a monster, which is very cool!

Disgusting. Sadly not a rare occurrence though. This makes me so fucking angry. Even more so when I think that things like this must happen regularly to the students I teach. Society needs to change. Fast.

I can already tell that I‘m going to love this book, even though I‘m only at the foreword.

The entire time I was finishing my previous book, I was looking forward to starting this. I feel a bit like I‘ve cheated on Richard Dawkins with Laura Bates 😂😂😂

Today‘s book haul just arrived via Amazon. I‘m finishing my current read tonight and planning to dive straight into the tagged book. I flicked through it when it arrived and it looks interesting.

Laura Bates‘ www.everydaysexism.com project collects and shares stories of sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. Some of the stories are collected here, exhibiting the pervasiveness of these problems in our world. She has also used these stories to help effect change. This book increased my blood pressure and made me very angry while not surprising me in the slightest, sad to say.

#dogsofLitsy #Greta

#awesomesocks

1. Everyday Sexism
2. Michael Ende - one of my favorite authors when I was 11...
3. Eraserhead. David Lynch is a genius
4. Eclairs 😋

#manicmonday

Here's the name change explanation -
https://sacereads.blog/2018/02/22/a-slut-by-any-other-name/

I changed my user name. Long story. I'll blog it soon. Here's a random picture of stray cat in a shelter while you wait.

'In fact, street harassment is happening so frequently that many women report it simply becoming part of their daily experience - and when something becomes part of your daily experience the danger is that you'll simply come to accept it as normal.'

Laura Bates is giving this presentation tonight on campus. Here with the kids 😀

'One of the best places any woman who wants to change the world can start is with picking up a book ... women who lead, read.' 💪🏻📚❤️

Only read the foreword so far but already hooked - prepared to be angry, shocked and inspired #everydaysexism

So I'm researching rules for writing mysteries, and I came across this uber-sexist gem published in Spicy Detective Magazine in 1935 on the topic of Sex in Detective Fiction - Do's and Don'ts.

Source: http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/03/rules-for-detective-writers.html

Should be on everyone's read list. Eye opening to the amount of little seemingly insignificant sexisms we put up with (women and men). Everything from street harassment, to workplace harassment. So important.

Finally a day off to start this!

This was a thought provoking and heart wrenching read. I have been angry, sad and frustrated while listening, but also a little hopeful at the end.

I kinda wish I had read this as a physical book instead of as an audiobook, because I found it hard to distingushing between Laura Bates' own experiences and the project entries.

🙌🏼👏🏻🙌🏼👏🏻🙌🏼👏🏻🙌🏼 pretty much the only way I can sum this book up. I don't think words can do justice to its importance and power. It's taken me a long time to read as I've needed many breaks from it in order to process the anger and sadness it provoked. Should be compulsory reading for men and women alike.

Reading this book makes me want to create movement out of these women's stories. I've been wanting to create something to this poem for a while. Thought I'd share 😊 https://youtu.be/8dOA8KSINTo I hope the link works. If not you can look it up. The title is: Spoken Word of a Feminist by Rachael Ofori.

👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

LADIES!! DO NOT LET YOURSELVES BE SILENCED

Starting this...I feel like I might be posting a lot... #sorrynotsorry #feminism #everydaysexism

Just finished the chapter "Girls", about the expectations put on developing young women by media, society, adults and their peers. I just can't. Torn between overwhelming feelings of shock, disgust, horror at the experiences and statistics related in this book, and a feeling of detachment of "well, yeah, this is how I've lived, surely everyone knows this is the case?" I think it's time for some fiction and chocolate before my head explodes...

Before I started this book, I wondered whether to underline the stuff that I found especially relevant to my own experiences. I'm really glad I didn't. Only 28 pages in and already realising that it would have been redundant, because Every. Single. Sentence. would have a big fat line under it. BRB, just off to call every woman in my contacts to tell them to read it RIGHT now

Finally finished this book. Not a bad finally just a heavy book. Definitely one I think everyone should read. Lots of facts and figures but with plenty of stories to give it depth.

Oh hey. Maybe we aren't quite as advanced as we think we are.

Had an awesome bookish morning! I went back to the huge library book sale with @TheNextBook, @JPeterson, @RebeccaSpeas, & @becausetrains! ...and I came back 8 books richer. So excited to find the complete Maus set!! It's been on my TBR forever, and I really want to read it soon since starting his daughter's memoir about her mom/his wife, I'm Supposed to Protect You From All This. 📚

We were so absorbed we forgot to take a Litsy group photo. 😂

This has been an incredibly difficult book to read, as so many women have gone/ continue to go through horrible moments. Some of the experiences mentioned are all too familiar to me. I congratulate Laura Bates on this book. It is of vital importance and everyone should read it, irrespective of their gender. I strongly recommend it.

This book is hard. It is uncomfortable and upsetting. There were points I was not sure if I was going to be able finish it but that's the point. It was not nice to acknowledge that things were way worse than I thought but it was necessary to see that. I'd put this forward as required reading; lots of real stories from real women revealing just how much work needs to be done.

"Sexism is often an invisible problem. This is partly because it's so frequent manifests in situations where the only witnesses present are victim and prepeator. When you're shouted at in a deserted street later at night. When a senior colleague with wandering hands corners you in an empty copy room. When... When... When..."

#recommendsday #nonfiction #favsof2016 #feminism #feministreads #sexism

[07.02.16]

This is one of the hardest things I have ever read. I'm a third of the way through and it is upsetting and enraging and completely necessary. I'm really hoping some more positive stuff comes up but I'm not holding my breath.

Picked up these #nonfiction beauties on a recent bookstore visit. (Seriously, aren't they so pretty together?) I can't wait to dive in!

It's funny, I *never* read nonfiction for pleasure growing up, but in the past two years it's become more than half of what I read. I also realized I'm significantly better at writing nonfiction than fiction. Cheers to the fantastic nonfiction reads of the world! 🍻

Excellent book, but a tough read.

Still...trying...to finish...it...-dead-

PREACH!! 🙌🏻

Board games and tea to mitigate how depressing this book is.

Unbelievable! 😡😡😡😡😡

All of them are great comebacks, but that last one kills me 😂

I wasn't expecting to learn a lot of new things from this book. I am a woman. I live in the world. Like many of the women who've voiced their experiences with tweets and the like, I have an understanding of what sexism is and how it affects my life. I was sadly surprised to read how pervasive it really is and how much worse it can be. I think everyone should read this, or go on the website to at least get a basic grasp of the situation.

This book is upsetting on many levels - but, for me, none so much as the accounts from young women still in their formative years.

One of these things SHOULD be a thing of the past and isn't. I'll give you a hint: It's not the thing that probably showed Back to the Future in it's original theatrical run 😡

"As girls grow up, these responses start to skew their own judgment of situations - they learn not to trust themselves and not to make a fuss. Society teaches them that they don't have the right to complain. One way or another, women are silenced." #everydaysexism #important