Perhaps it’s easier to ignore the insanity of the world churning out the same words again and again when the page is always refreshing. This raises the question of what constitutes assault and rape and how even when consent is given it can be withdrawn at any point.

It's the difference between living your life with actual principles and living your life based on hatred.Tamblyn took inspiration from her friend Rose McGowan — who was appalled that every article about her bore the face of her assailant (Harvey Weinstein) — and gave her rapist character no voice or POV, as it would have seemed more “violent” if we were allowed to see this as the rapist’s story. As Cameron Diaz said in the 2000 classic masterpiece, Charlie's Angels, " I signed that release form, so you can just feel free to stick things in my [box]. Comps: I've never really read anything like it in terms of writing style and format, but I read it like I read YELLOWFACE this year. Tamblyn takes the potentially-cringeworthy concept of a female rapist raping men and makes it potent because it doesn't so much focus on the perp as it does the victims.

I think Tamblyn intended for this to be a subtle social commentary but the commentary screamed from the pages. You really imagine doing things to people who would harm your child that you would never imagine,” she says, which also allowed her not to be too precious with her characters as well; they would see the worst the world had to offer, and she would trace their journeys to recovery.She tries not to give Maude a backstory as to why she’s doing this for the most part but she’s definitely the most intriguing part of the story. I didn't elbow him in the crotch or slam my foot down on his or even make blistering eye contact with him as he got off the bus.

Hell, my favourite genre to read makes a pretty good living thinking up new and exciting ways to kill women – put them in cages or chain them to walls or stuff them in freezers.

With Sebastian they applaud his strength and celebrate his upcoming book while with Michael all they can talk about is his criminal record and his assigned at birth gender which has absolutely nothing to do with the attack but there are also those that support Maude and believe that men are finally getting what they deserve after putting women through this treatment for centuries which I didn’t agree with at all, that isn’t an experience you’d wish on your worst enemy let alone the average person whose done nothing wrong. Each of these three men feels that Maude has taken some essential part of them that they won’t ever get back and they have to live with crushing guilt and shame about their experiences which I was personally say hit home hard for me having been through it myself. She describes the molded-plastic gloves her physical therapist made for both arms, ones which would immobilize her thumbs, so she could no longer type.