Excellent and clarifying summary and review of Lecona’s book (and gender and sex and why it’s such an issue …). We Just Can’t Shut Up About Gender: A Review of Gender Identity: Lies and Dangers, by Laura Lecuona “…sex is a biological fact while gender is patriarchal fiction; the gender system is a hierarchy, not …
July 2025 archive
Jul 06 2025
Men and Women in the 21st Century
None of these quotes (all from The Unmade Bed by Stephen Marche) are representative of what the book’s about, but they do reveal, perhaps unintentionally, Marche’s subtitle, “The messy truth about men and women in the 21st century”. “Eventually, David Granger, the editor-in-chief of Esquire, read something I’d written for the Toronto Star and called …
Jul 05 2025
from Pretending, Holly Bourne – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
“You are a fucking disgrace. You have RAPED someone you claim you love and now dare to be upset that she’s upset about it. Why are you all such dicks? What’s wrong with you? WHAT The ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? …” p222 “This is how it feels when someone doesn’t stop, I say …
Jul 03 2025
a quick note re sexual harassment
Annoyance is the least of it. Especially when it happens in the workplace, it’s distracting; let’s just get the job done. Then there’s the disgust, the eew factor, of a man jiggling his crotch, for example, while looking at us. We do not find that appealing; we are not aroused by that. Then there’s the …
Jul 01 2025
reading In Our Time, Susan Brownmiller
In In Our Time, Susan Brownmiller, the author of the ground-breaking Against Our Will tell what it was like, the second-wave feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Highly recommended. p2 re jobs for men and women p5-6 what it was like before abortion was legal “Women the world over are required to modify their …
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