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Peg Tittle
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Oct 20 2022
Apologies Women Need to Make (McSweeney’s List)
Brilliantly done! https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/apologies-women-need-to-make-sorry-its-true
Oct 16 2022
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future. A MUST READ.
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson should be required reading for everyone. In particular, for those with economic and political power (send a copy to the people of your choice!). “Easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism …” p25 And that’s the problem. “Looking into plans …
Oct 15 2022
Why more men than women will die of the COVID virus
(I posted this way back in April of 2020 at hellyeahimafeminist.com, but thought it worth transferring to this blog) (as I’m doing for so many other posts) (hence the recent proliferation of overtly feminist posts) Why more men than women will die of the COVID virus: 1. Cleanliness is a girl thing. Real men …
Oct 10 2022
The hardest part about being a woman…
Reposted from ovarit (if you’re not aware of ovarit.com, you should be!)
Oct 09 2022
The End of Men – Christina Sweeney-Baird
Just read The End of Men, Christina Sweeney-Baird – well worth the read, one of several notable bits: [She pretends to be infected] “I have never felt so powerful. This must be what men used to feel like. My mere physical presence is enough to terrify someone into running. No wonder they used to get …
Oct 07 2022
A woman in Milgram’s experiment
So I’m reading Humanity: a hopeful history by Rutger Bregman, and he says the guy hired by Milgram to pressure the participants to shock the ‘learner’ actually “came to blows with one forty-six-year-old woman who turned the shock machine off” (p.165). YAY US! (Funny how this is never mentioned in Psych 101 textbooks that report …
Oct 06 2022
Meghan Murphy’s “The Unbearable Coolness of Porn”
A simple but stunning observation: “… paying for sex is coercive – we all know that when people want to have sex with one another, they do it for free. No one needs to be paid unless one party is not enthusiastic about the sex.” Read the whole thing here: https://www.feministcurrent.com/2022/09/12/the-unbearable-coolness-of-porn/
Sep 30 2022
“25 Ways I Was Granted White Male Privilege After I Transitioned…”
We really need BOOKS about these experiences. Norah Vincent’s Self-Made Man and Kristen Schilt’s Just One of the Guys … MORE please!!
Sep 22 2022
“Men need Sex” — a story about a story
So I wrote a story, “Men Need Sex.” I started with the mistaken, but wide-spread, belief that men need sex (PIV). Mistaken because, unlike food, water, and oxygen, without sex, you don’t die. Then, ‘inspired’ by Roger Elliott, I thought, ‘What if?’ What if men really did die if they didn’t get sex. I postulated …
Sep 20 2022
Women delaying motherhood because the whole thing blows (The Onion)
A must-read. https://www.theonion.com/study-finds-american-women-delaying-motherhood-because-1847112786
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