“… highest population density” (p57, Climate Wars, Harald Welzer) should read “… highest frequency of men fucking women”. “a dramatic rise in population figures” (p63, ditto) should read “a dramatic rise in men fucking women”. I see this again and again and again … This stork/cabbage patch theory of the origin of life. It’s like …
January 2023 archive
Jan 31 2023
from Climate Wars, Harald Welzer
“If one were to imagine the ‘go on as usual’ strategy at the level of individuals, one would immediately think of a sociopath who has no problem consuming seventy times more than anyone else while largely relying on their raw materials — or someone who uses fifteen times more energy, water and food than the …
Jan 30 2023
Tina Fey on what’s supposedly sexy these days
“Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll …
Jan 30 2023
Harvard
“The all-male club members of Pi Eta, whose members are Harvard undergraduates and graduates, received a letter in the 1980s that promised ‘a bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter’ at their parties. As Peggy Sanday explains, the logic of such parties (at which women are frequently raped, including at this fraternity) is ‘Its …
Jan 23 2023
from The Pornography of Meat, Carol J. Adams
“It takes 25 minutes to turn a live steer into steak at the modern slaughterhouse where Roman Moreno works. For 20 years, his post was ‘second-legger’, a job that entails cutting hocks off carcasses as they whirl past at a rate of 309 an hour. “The cattle were supposed to be dead before they got …
Jan 20 2023
What harm does it do?
So I’ve received a 1/5 review of Gender Fraud: a fiction at Goodreads by someone claiming, basically, TERF!!! Expected. Sigh. But the reviewer did ask a question that I should have been able to answer, which was ‘What harm does it do if a transwoman wants to call herself a woman?’ Well, here’s the answer:
Jan 17 2023
Arthur Jeon’s novel, Snowflake — a must read
Snowflake (Arthur Jeon) should have been published by a major publisher and promoted with a huge budget, and it should be on every bestseller list by now. That it wasn’t and it’s not proves Ben’s point. Some excerpts below … [Author’s note: “The media headlines, tweets, and quotes are authentic. And, as of 2020, …
Jan 15 2023
Women and networking, putting yourself out there (why we find it hard) …
insights about women and networking (why we find it hard) from “Living the Life of the Mind” Charlotte Knowles (The Philosophers’ Magazine 90) “Reticence to put yourself out there or an uncomfortableness about marching up to a veritable stranger and introducing yourself, is something that I think is particularly common for those belonging to underrepresented …
Jan 10 2023
Andrea Dworkin addressing an audience of about 500 men …
“…why are you so slow? Why are you so slow to understand the simplest things; not the complicated ideological things. You understand those. The simple things. The cliches. Simply that women are human to precisely the degree and quality that you are. “It is an extraordinary thing to try to understand and confront why it …
Jan 05 2023
If you can’t say anything nice, maybe there’s nothing nice to say. Say it anyway.
If you’re a woman, you’ve surely been told, reprimanded, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.’ To the extent that there may be nothing nice to say, that standard of politeness has crippled us. It has made us keep our opinions to ourselves. My neighbours have their tv on all the …
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