So I was reading James Morrow’s The Wine of Violence and when I got to “Will the Journal of Evolution publish it? Publish, it, hell, they’ll make me an editor” (p25), I stopped, puzzled for a moment. Then it hit me. To Francis, the character whose thoughts those are, becoming an editor means status and …
December 2022 archive
Dec 29 2022
40 Useful Concepts – from Twitter via Dead Wild Roses
https://deadwildroses.com/2022/12/01/40-useful-concepts-from-of-all-places-twitter/ In 40 tweets I will explain 40 useful concepts you should know. 1. Ostrich Effect: We often try to avoid info that we fear will cause us stress. Thus bills and work emails remain unopened, bank balances remain unchecked. This is counterproductive because ignoring a problem doesn’t eliminate the problem or your anxiety; it …
Dec 20 2022
The Assistants by Camille Perri – highly recommended!
Just finished reading Camille Perri’s The Assistants — highly recommended! It’s Nine to Five updated and with a great moral element; better than any nonfiction book about the income inequity between the top 1% and the rest of us … With attitude, to boot! “Robert had tie-clips that cost as much as those [student loan] …
Dec 15 2022
Another reason to hate men
Another reason to hate men: “By 2050 at the latest, and ideally before 2040, we must have stopped emitting more greenhouse gases [typically caused by the burning of fossil fuels] into the atmosphere than Earth can naturally absorb through its ecosystems (a balance known as net-zero emissions or carbon neutrality). In order to get to …
Dec 08 2022
WLRN podcast: A Feminist Analysis of Christianity
https://wlrnmedia.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/edition-55-a-feminist-analysis-of-christianity/
Dec 06 2022
December, Like It’s 1989
December, Like It’s 1989 Tell it. Geneviève Bergeron, civil engineering Hélène Colgan, mechanical engineering Nathalie Croteau, mechanical engineering Barbara Daigneault, mechanical engineering Anne-Marie Edward, chemical engineering Maud Haviernick, materials engineering Maryse Laganière, finance department Maryse Leclair, materials engineering Anne-Marie Lemay, mechanical engineering Sonia Pelletier, mechanical engineering Michèle Richard, materials engineering Annie St-Arneault, mechanical engineering Annie Turcotte, materials engineering Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, nursing. “Hey, come on. Not all men are like that, …
Dec 05 2022
Why won’t misogyny die?
Because believing you’re better simply because you’re male is, like believing you’re better simply because your skin is white, the only way to high(er) status that doesn’t depend on actually doing something.
Dec 04 2022
barely tongue-in-cheek bit from Grant Naylor
“The GAS (Genetic Alternative Sports) … Sports fans were no longer interested in seeing a conventional boxing match, when they could witness two genetically engineered pugilists — who were created with their brains in their shorts, and all their other major organs crammed into their legs and feet, leaving their heads solid blocks of unthinking …
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