Is the book too misogynist to read/recommend?

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There are books that make readers cringe because of the way they portray women. But is the book misogynist or is it just the product of a misogynist culture and its misogyny should be overlooked for its other good points. Add, vote, explain.
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rajukv, Settings, ManWithAnAgenda
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Settings: In this one the main female character can be replaced by a vagina in a way that is far more literal than in most books.
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bluepiano, ManWithAnAgenda
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bluepiano: The hate & fear of women in this book is so extreme that it was surely the product of a diseased mind.
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aulsmith
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aulsmith: Remembering parts of this 40 years later still make me physically cringe.
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Settings: Extensive slut-shaming.
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Settings: Making almost every single female character a walking negative stereotype is not how you make an M/M romance work.
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bluepiano : Haven't read it for a while but remember (male) bosses rather than women complained about.
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bluepiano : In the book a man kills a woman for reasons that, as I remember, have nothing to do with her sex. The (female) author deplores the crime, so er not at all misogynistic.
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bluepiano : I somehow don't think that misogyny would appear in a list of the 5 most troubling things about Charles Manson. And what makes the biography itself misogynistic?
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bluepiano : Have thumbed down all Arabian Nights listings as though the stories may be misogynistic the misogyny would be cultural and the books are very much worth reading anyway. Besides, the women in them have healthy sex drives and the person who, after all those volumes, triumphs by virtue of cleverness is a woman.
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bluepiano : I have no idea why this book is here.
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bluepiano : This, like so many listings that've been selected by computer rather than members, is bloody ridiculous. Jeez Louise--sexist calamari? Miss World noodles? elegant pizza from Telegraph Hill that compels a diner to assault a woman?
: It's a cookbook for goodness sake!
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