Happy Family

A sexiest approach to the topic

Revisado: 10-06-22

The author makes it absolutely clear that they chose a definite “gendered approach” in writing this material, which means the author makes a literal argument saying that because men only suffer 15% of physical abuse, this means the book will make women synonymous with the term “victim.” The author is deliberate in describing women as the victim in all examples given, and men as the oppressors or abusers.

I, a man, bought this book because the author was praised by someone at the gospel coalition as having incredible insight to all forms/variations of abuse, and not just physical abuse. Before even getting into the very first chapter it is explained that this book is gender by design.

To say I am heartbroken by this is an understatement. To be so focused on making men that bad guys, based on one aspect of abuse, is so obtuse that I found it hard to even make it through this book entirely. To seemingly absolve women of their own sinful capacity to abuse in a wide variety of ways is incredibly jarring and inexcusably wrong, damaging, and divisive. The author should really rethink this approach.

In the end, the author is continuing a narrative that men are not victims, that women are to be taken more seriously than men, which results in few men ever being taken seriously in these circumstances.

The quality of the audiobooks production is the only reason this has more than 1 star.

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Will prove elusive to some; rich for the searching

Revisado: 05-01-15

Wasn't what I expected, though was exactly what I needed at the phase in life, possibly for every phase to come.

Liked the narration more than most books I've listened to, not the fastest, but certainly nowhere near the slowest!!

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