The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates
Published 2025 · 352 pages · 96,800 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Politics & Society, Feminist Literature, Nonfiction
How hard is The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny to read?
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny scores 27 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 32 out of 100
- The book is aimed at general readers and uses plain contemporary language with technology terms such as AI, metaverse and virtual reality that most readers know. It sits near Beach Read in accessibility, with a little more topical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 30 out of 100
- Campaigning popular nonfiction relies on direct, declarative sentences. Bates's prose is closer to contemporary accessible writing than to academic argument.
- Abstraction: 38 out of 100
- The argument rests on concrete current technologies: AI systems, sex robots, virtual worlds. It deals in examples of harm more than in theory, much like Atomic Habits with its examples for abstract concepts.
- Information density: 42 out of 100
- Running about 97,000 words across many technologies, it covers a lot of ground, but in an informative, journalistic way. Its density resembles Atomic Habits, with extra topical reporting.
How The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny is regarded
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny holds a literary regard score of 29 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.