The Female of the Species

An excelent book. Deals with very important topics like slut shaming and rape culture in a very real way. I definitely reccomend this book.

Alex's rage and violence were the only relatable thing in this book- how we women are just onlookers of our own demise and it seems like we can't do anything about it, the rage building up until it bursts. That kind of a woman wouldn't fall for a jock who plows through women like they don't matter. What a waste of a character. The romance feels so misplaced and is overshadowing the premise that this book was supposed to be something more than that. Jack is so unlikeable, his misogyny never gets addressed, the constant madonna-whore complex, his weird lewd comments... And yet the author tries to make me believe that he's "one of the good ones". It draws a point to young girls that they are the ones that should change misogynistic boys, a futile promise that contradicts the novel's very own acknowledgment that one in three will be raped. If those are the statistics, it's just impossible for all women to find a "good" male partner. The ending was stupid and abrupt but at least it didn't end in marriage or some other thing that would piss me off way more.

Elsker de sarkastiske bemærkninger. Og slutningen... Saras værk 👏🏼

This was... A lot. Like a lot lot. But I think is one that is very important. I would have like to resolve some things (particularly with jack and branley) but I get that not everyone gets a happy ending and people are not perfect. Remaind yourself that it's never your fault, that bad people deserve it bad and that if you allow the jokes and the molestation who everyone seems to think are insignificant but later become assaults and other monstrous things, you are contributing to rape culture.
So f them. Really hard. Better to be with no friends than to be friends with rapists. Better rapists to have bruises and their skin thorne apart than having girls abused.

Hearbreaking. Can one be on the side of the murderer? How f*#k up it's our society and this rape culture that we live in... And most of the people don't Even realise.