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Peg Tittle
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Jun 18 2026
from I Don’t, Clementine Ford
There’s a lot here and every bit is worth reading. Better yet, just get the book. And read it. Every word. * from blurb for Ford’s I Don’t “why do so many women still believe that our value is intrinsically tied to being chosen by a man?” “Ford explains how capitalist patriarchal structures need …
Jun 17 2026
Steven Pinker on AI
Steven Pinker on AI (from The Book of Minds, Philip Ball) “As Steven pinker has said, ‘A characteristic of AI dystopias is that they project a parochial alpha-ale psychology onto the concept of intelligence … There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless megalomaniacs.’ It is telling, …
Jun 07 2026
Patricia Pearson, Playing House
(I’ve discovered a new funny author…) “He worked as a jazz musician, living off the avails of his art, which was the annual salary equivalent of two Smarties and a piece of string.” p4 “…he understood certain expatriate secrets, such as where Alberta was and how it felt to be treated like a doofus in …
Jun 02 2026
some excellent bits from Roper’s Sex Dolls, Robots, and Woman Hating
“… when sex doll and robot advocates promote the use of these products as being beneficial for ‘people’, they mean male people. When they claim sex robots could help alleviate loneliness, they mean men’s loneliness, not women’s. When they argue sex robots could be used by the elderly, they mean elderly men. When they champion …
Jun 01 2026
Why aren’t more men insulted by the low standards we set for them?
If he changes a diaper, he’s father of the year. If he cooks something, anything, he’s a chef. If he marries, but otherwise continues to live pretty much as he has to that point, he’s suddenly respectable. If he continues to pay a child’s ball game into adulthood, he gets paid a six figure salary. …
May 30 2026
Here’s a letter (from a ‘transwoman’ I haven’t seen yet … and I’m waiting … and waiting …
I don’t know what I was thinking. No, that’s not true. I do know what I was thinking. I was thinking I could be a gentler person, free of all that macho shit. I thought I could indulge my feminine side without shame (and yes, perhaps with praise). I thought I could finally be the …
May 28 2026
McSweeney’s List about the Birth Rate – brilliantly hilarious
Check it out! https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/americas-op-ed-columnists-brainstorm-future-headlines-about-the-birth-rate
May 18 2026
experiences reported in Complaint, Sara Ahmed
“I took an off-the-record grievance pay-out (not massive) and a much-reduced pension to get out of academia two years ago after an unremitting fifteen years of sexist (and disablist) bullying. … I had to sign a gagging clause when I got my grievance pay-out which—as I’m sure you are aware—is how universities typically try to …
May 15 2026
Home for Old Hags
Struck by arthritis and its attendant mobility issues, the most worrisome being an increased risk of falling while walking in the forest or on her way down to the water, it hit her: her life would be shorter than most because she’d rather kill herself than live in a so-called retirement village. It was bad …
May 09 2026
from No Logo, Naomi Klein
“… many of today’s best-known manufacturers no longer produce products and advertise them, but rather buy products and ‘brand’ them …” p5 “[T]his corporate obsession with brand identity is waging a war on public and individual space; on public institutions such as schools, on youthful identities, on the concept of nationality, and on the possibilities …
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