Taylor Drew reviewed アセクシュアルアロマンティック入門 by 松浦 優
LGBTに関する議論から取りこぼされてきたものがある。 それが「アセクシュアル」「アロマンティック」などのセクシュアリティだ。 アセクシュアルとは「他者に性的に惹かれない」という指向で、アロマンティックとは「他者に恋愛的に惹かれない」指向をいう。 私たちは「誰しも他者を恋愛的な意味で『好き』になったり、性的な関係を持ちたいと思ったりするはずだ」という前提で日々を過ごしがちだが、そういった思い込みは彼らの存在を否定することになる。 本書ではアセクシュアルやアロマンティックの人々の経験や置かれている状況、歴史、そして関連する用語や概念を詳細に解説する。
Not introductory friendly at all
1 star
This book was incredibly frustrating from start to finish. I actually kind of regret that I spent time reading the whole thing.
The author repeats themselves constantly without really saying anything of substance, they tried to pack five bajillion topics into what is supposed to be an introductory book, and at the end of the book they openedly admit that one of their key goals of the book was to list what research still needed to be done--very clearly not something for somebody learning about the topic for the first time at all. The author actually recommends completely different book as an introduction to the topic at the end of the book.
And that doesn't even get into how many times the author tried to explain Japanese terms with English words...to the presumably Japanese reading audience.
I didn't read this book to learn about the topic to begin with, so …
This book was incredibly frustrating from start to finish. I actually kind of regret that I spent time reading the whole thing.
The author repeats themselves constantly without really saying anything of substance, they tried to pack five bajillion topics into what is supposed to be an introductory book, and at the end of the book they openedly admit that one of their key goals of the book was to list what research still needed to be done--very clearly not something for somebody learning about the topic for the first time at all. The author actually recommends completely different book as an introduction to the topic at the end of the book.
And that doesn't even get into how many times the author tried to explain Japanese terms with English words...to the presumably Japanese reading audience.
I didn't read this book to learn about the topic to begin with, so that's fine on my end, but the fact that there's going to be somebody who picks up this book to try to learn about being asexual or being aromantic and that they're going to just get a bunch of English jargon and research from North American and European scholars with an author telling them that there just needs to be more research done, is upsetting.
I have a hard time even recommending this book for the use that I had for it, which was simply to learn more about terminology in Japanese. Bleck.
