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Irreversible Damage - Abigail Shriver

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Dances · 02/07/2020 19:45

www.amazon.co.uk/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters-ebook/dp/B07YL4FGCH?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Anyone read this yet? I have been listening on Audible. It's well researched, albeit v Amercan focused.

The narrator is a bit annoying (posh Anerican), but that's my bias Smile

I think it's going for a mainstream audience and it does cover the issues

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NotTerfNorCis · 04/04/2021 16:22

I'm listening to the audio book. It brings it home how important the biological differences between women and men are, and why using men as the default can be harmful.

334bu · 04/04/2021 16:21

Good point about Amazon.

Ritascornershop · 04/04/2021 16:13

I’m in Canada and can see the reviews (very many favourable ones). I’ll echo the poster before me who said not to buy from Amazon. Please support your high street shops, even Waterstones, as they keep your money local and pay taxes (& have better conditions for their staff).

Leafstamp · 04/04/2021 15:51

Found it! That’s the kindle price.

I prefer a book, but am going to have a look round my library for some feminist literature.

Leafstamp · 04/04/2021 14:17

@334bu

Now £4.69 Amazon
Ooh great, thank you. Do you have a link? I can’t find it at that price but may be being stupid!
334bu · 04/04/2021 13:57

Now £4.69 Amazon

2Rebecca · 05/07/2020 22:32

I tried reviewing it on Amazon as well but was unable to. I thought maybe it was because it was a book and I'd bought it through Audible not Amazon but I clicked on another book I hadn't bought and could do a review on that. Maybe my audible review will appear on Amazon. Interesting that on Audible it gets 1 star or 5. I suspect the 1 star people haven't bought it.

DuDuDuLangaLangaBingBong · 05/07/2020 22:17

@NChat

Quite the selection of "also viewed"! No reviews that I could see on Canadian Amazon...
Christ on a bike!

I used to think content warnings on internet posts were silly but I have changed my mind now!

2Rebecca · 05/07/2020 22:00

Abigail Shrier being interviewed

2Rebecca · 05/07/2020 21:26

Now finished it and have done a review. An excellent book

transdimensional · 05/07/2020 14:07

I'm about 40% of the way through the book. I highly recommend it. It is focused on the social contagion affecting teenage girls, but many related topics come up, and similarly while it's focused to some extent on the American experience, the great majority of it is more widely applicable, and there are at least some references to international experiences in Canada and the UK/Tavistock as well. Furthermore, while Amazon UK considers this book "'#17 in Conservatism", there is nothing the least bit bigoted about this book and I haven't come across anything rightwing in it.

2Rebecca · 05/07/2020 13:54

I hung on to my Audible account so that I could get this book as it was released on audible on 30 June. It's excellent, I still have a couple of chapters to go but she has researched the area thoroughly. Lots of statistics, lots of interviews, lots of sadness. I've just finished listening to the chapter on detransitioners.

SunsetBeetch · 05/07/2020 13:00

Here's a good interview with Abigail Shrier:

Thesuzle · 03/07/2020 19:59

People people, please stop using Amazon They dont pay tax and are trying to take over the world, support your local bookshops

Lamahaha · 03/07/2020 19:19

The Kindle version is ridiculously expensive. I wish publishers wouldn't do that. They would sell far, far more with a lower price and reach a much bigger readership, more visibility, and more sales.

Lamahaha · 03/07/2020 19:17

Don't forget to vote the good reviews as "helpful". Helpful votes keeps those reviews at the top.

SetYourselfOnFire · 03/07/2020 19:10

Call me paranoid but I keep expecting Amazon to stop selling it. I haven't read it yet. I'm trying to get a copy from the library.

ChattyLion · 03/07/2020 05:29

Quite the selection of "also viewed"

Gold! GrinGrinGrin

lionheart · 03/07/2020 03:33

Posted about this a few days ago--Amazon seems a bit conflicted on this one ... refusing to advertise.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3946374-Abigail-Shrier-Irreversible-Damage

Wishingstarr · 03/07/2020 01:29

I am in the US and I get my copy on Friday. You can buy it on Kindle in the US but I wanted a hardcopy. Can you not get a Kindle copy in the UK?

MingeofDeath · 03/07/2020 01:14

I love the juxtaposition of 1984 with the silicone fanny Grin

FantaOra · 03/07/2020 01:11

Puke

Ereshkigalangcleg · 03/07/2020 01:09

Quite the selection of "also viewed"!

GrinGrin

Mollyollydolly · 03/07/2020 01:05

My bed time Audible listen tonight. Only just started.

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