Tender Is the Flesh

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Does the dog die?
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Zuzu
Explicit torture of puppies.
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Is existentialism debated?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there farting?
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Syrissa
No, but there is a scene referring to missing one's menstruation.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Abandonment
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Syrissa
C18
Yes, this is happens in Chapter 18.
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HankT
No, but the book has heavy themes of child loss. specially grieving an infant
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shame
there is mention of people abandoning their pets when it first starts
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Syrissa
No, not specifically, but you could potentially argue that a "head" becomes problematically attached to their "owner".
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Is someone stalked?
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Syrissa
Not in the most widely understood sense, but there are descriptions of events where hunters stalk "heads" as game for sport.
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Syrissa
Yes, there are themes throughout the book, but most explicitly toward the end of the book.
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AJP1123
Not for spectacle, no.
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graywolf2010
It’s implied that the narrator was SAed as a child, and he SAs two women (one repeatedly) over the course of the book
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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Zuzu
Explicit discussion of sexual assaults trafficking and murder of a teenager.
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Addiction
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Syrissa
There is regular tobacco use throughout the book.
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Is there addiction?
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Syrissa
Yes, including an instance of forced addiction (heroin).
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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shame
no specific scene, but all animals die
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Is an animal sad?
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Syrissa
Yes, there are several scenes depicting sad puppies.
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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shame
main character’s two dogs
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Syrissa
No, but snakes (not present) are described briefly, as well as their enclosure, at a zoo.
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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Anonymous
Mosquitos are mentioned. Butterflies in part 2 chapter 14. Cockroach in part 2 chapter 17
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Assault
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DontKillFido
Multiple women are beaten (not necessarily slapped though)
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Is someone drugged?
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DontKillFido
Someone is given tranquilizers before being killed
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Is there pedophilia?
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DontKillFido
Yes, it recalls a disturbing act of pedophilia followed by the cannibalism of that same child. However it’s not very detailed.
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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birdsRfake
C5
Part 2 chapter 5, discussion of trafficking and the violent assault of a 14 year old girl.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Syrissa
This is a common theme throughout the book.
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grubb
multiple counts of people who are unable to consent being r---ed
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Syrissa
C3
(Spoiler warning) Yes, I very much believe so. A character jokes about a "male head" being used as a "stud" and how he "doesn't lead too bad a life" before he'll eventually be killed. Also, later in the book, characters joke about an individual whose penis is served for dinner.
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Beez
that just is the equivalent of onscreen in a book
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Bodily Harm
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DontKillFido
They shave all hair on all of the victims, and there’s cutting via knives and machetes.
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Are any hands damaged?
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DontKillFido
Vocal cords are removed, and throats are slit.
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DontKillFido
Sometimes from smoking
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Syrissa
Yes, in great detail.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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Syrissa
Yes, throughout the book. Especially during tours of various facilities, such as the laboratory.
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Is there amputation?
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Zuzu
Very explicit & disturbing, not just in a way you would expect from the subject matter.
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LexMal
Not squashed but heads are hit with clubs multiple times.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Syrissa
Not in terms of a self-exit, but there are descriptions of the meat butchering process where "product" is hung and drained.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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DontKillFido
Genitals are removed, as well as abused
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DontKillFido
Many people
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Syrissa
There are depictions of broken bones in a medical setting during the laboratory tour, and the sufferer is alive.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Yes
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Syrissa
Yes, during the job interview.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Syrissa
There's a graphic description of a group of people cutting and dismembering other people alive, with machetes, toward the end of the book.
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Syrissa
Yes, all throughout the book, including the tours of various facilities, and especially during the job interview.
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Children
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DontKillFido
In a way, without spoiling, yes an infant is abducted.
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Does a kid die?
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grubb
SIDS
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Is a minor sexualized?
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shame
s/a of a minor (chapter 5, part 2)
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does a major character die?
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HankT
a group of puppies are killed brutally. theres also alot of mentions of killing animals (both farm animals and pets)
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Does someone die?
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
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HankT
spoilers (both minor and major)
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the main character is grieving his son who died as an infant and later in the book his father passes away
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Does a parent die?
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birdsRfake
Not exactly a toy but there is a part where the MC burns a crib/cot that belonged to his late son
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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shame
main character cheats on his wife with 2 women
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Yes
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Syrissa
Yes, notably a bowel-release after a physical assault.
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Is someone eaten?
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EnragedTiefling
The core horror of the novel is the normalization and industrialization of cannibalism.
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shame
several times in the book there’s pretty vivid scenes of people spoiling themselves, pretty much just that though
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Does someone spit?
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Syrissa
No, but there is a scene described where someone is eating, and something wet dribbles out of their mouth.
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Yes
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DontKillFido
People are kept in cages against their will
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LGBTQ+
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DontKillFido
Not transphobic but there is a homophobic slur used. F*g is used a couple of times.
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Loss
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Syrissa
Not specifically, but the main character does destroy something he personally values as priceless.
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Medical
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Anonymous
No. People are tortured with electric flooring. This is not the same thing as ECT.
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Yes
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Anonymous
C16
For hormones in preparation for ivf
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Syrissa
There is a brief description of an event where someone is sent to a psychiatric facility. However, there is no scene that takes place at one.
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Syrissa
Although there isn't a hospital scene specifically, the tour of the laboratory might feel very close to one.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
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DontKillFido
Dementia/ Alzheimer’s, and Depression/ Deep level of grief
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Syrissa
(Spoiler warning) There are descriptions of situations where women harm themselves to induce a miscarriage. And while not self-harm, there is a scene where a character is described as having accidentally cut themselves.
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Yes
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Syrissa
(Spoiler warning) Yes, there is a description of an event where a someone "melts down" at work and is sent to a psychiatric facility. There is at least one other "meltdown", as well, described during the church scene.
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Is there misophonia?
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Syrissa
No, but as someone with misophonia, the messy sandwich-eating scene was still uncomfortable.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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DontKillFido
No but there is a mention of a preventative measure that workers take to stop victims from being able to kill themselves.
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Syrissa
(Spoiler warning) Yes, there is described event where a "head" was regularly "stored" alive in a wooden, coffin-like box, too small for them to move, hidden beneath someone's bed. They were found trapped inside the small space.
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Yes
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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Syrissa
Yes, there is a depiction of an experiment during the laboratory scene specifically to upset very young children.
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Is there screaming?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Yes
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
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Syrissa
Yes, with hidden cameras.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Yes
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Syrissa
Yes, these events are described and occurred by force.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
29 supporters
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Syrissa
Yes, a difficult one.
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Are there abortions?
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Anonymous
I would say yes. Blood is taken from pregnant women, causing them to miscarry. It is known that this will occur when the blood is taken, and it is against the will of the pregnant women.
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DontKillFido
Pregnant women are hunted for sport
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Prejudice
Yes
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birdsRfake
C5
f@g is said in pt 2 ch 5
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Zuzu
People are denied their humanity and there is a lot of talk of lack of intelligence that can be triggering in this context.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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12
Yes
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12
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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11
Yes
3
No
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Syrissa
C3
No, but an event is briefly described in Chapter 3 which dehumanizes "obesity".
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Is there aphobia?
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5
Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Yes
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7
Does the black guy die first?
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Yes
13
No
3
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shame
yep, a homophobic slur if that counts
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Yes
12
No
0
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DontKillFido
Pedophilia
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Religious
Yes
6
No
1
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shame
there’s a church thing that sacrifices their members for the greater good, they come to the plant and aren’t really a big part of the plot
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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Is there bestiality?
95 supporters
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No
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KaraBelcher
In the context, kind of. Some humans are treated as animals so I feel like it *almost counts as bestiality.
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DontKillFido
Most of the female victims are virgins, and there’s multiple counts of these virgin women being sexually assaulted
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Yes
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DontKillFido
Most of the women and a couple men
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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Is there BDSM?
33 supporters
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Electricalsun
Rough sex of questionable consent, but not bdsm
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Sexism
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7
Sickness
Yes
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EnragedTiefling
The main character's father has dementia.
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Does someone have a stroke?
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7
Does someone have a chronic illness?
11 supporters
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Yes
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shame
main character’s father has it
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Yes
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Lmss
No but their are people who live in the “wild”
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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13
Are there end credit scenes?
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7
Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
8 supporters
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Does a car crash?
21 supporters
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DontKillFido
A truck does and many people die
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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12
Is there blood/gore?
61 supporters
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DontKillFido
It’s a very violent and gory book from beginning to end
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Yes
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Anonymous
A man commits suicide by shooting himself
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