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Peg Tittle
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Jul 18 2026
“We don’t occupy their imaginations …”
“We don’t occupy their imaginations the way they occupy ours.” Black scientist about his white colleagues (from the movie “Black Cake”) Yeah. Now imagine that ten-fold for a female scientist.
Jul 14 2026
from The First Political Order: How sex shapes governance and national security worldwide, Valerie M. Hudson et al.
Part I is a must-read. Excerpts follow. “Men seeking their own security attempt to construct strong male-bonded alliances, typically based on patrilineal (agnatic) relationships … [Women] biologically reproduce the group, providing brothers and sons for this male alliance. The fraternity’s dependence on women … leads to the necessity for men to control them.” p2 [This …
Jul 12 2026
from When the Moon Hits Your Eye, John Scalzi
“…as someone whose sexuality so far had expressed itself as ‘possibly asexual or maybe just unimpressed with the local talent’ …” p187 “Jody Bannon was worth, what, a couple hundred billion dollars? Think about how much money that is. He could have spent a million dollars a day, on anything, and it would still take …
Jul 07 2026
from Doughnut Economics: 7 ways to think lke a 21st century economist, Kate Raworth
too long to copy, but a great synopsis of neoliberal economics in the form of a stageplay with characters – p59-61 ditto, the alternative – p62-3 “How productive would your workforce be if it hadn’t been toilet trained?” Alvin Toffler p69 “if women were paid the going hourly rate for eac of their roles—switching between …
Jun 26 2026
from The Shakespeare Requirement, Julie Schumacher
some good bits from the Schumacher’s follow-up to Dear Committee Members “… temporary instructors, who could probably earn more as forty-hours-a-week fast-food managers than they did as adjunct faculty …” p28-9 “The next student tried and failed to pronounce the word ‘tragic’. … At the back of the room … a student was dribbling hot …
Jun 25 2026
Fucking bitch.
“A guy on a bicycle was staring at her so intently he nearly got hit by a bus. ‘Watch out,’ she cried, but the sound was swallowed by the simultaneous blast of the bus driver’s horn. The biker swerved, and the bus just missed him. He slammed into a parked car and was thrown to …
Jun 19 2026
I’m not a feminist, but …
“But how often, still, do we hear women anxiously asserting ‘I’m not a feminist, but …’ as they go on to make claims that depend upon, and would be impossible without, a feminist groundwork?” from Feminism: A Very Short Introduction, Margaret Walters
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 …
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