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Peg Tittle
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Sep 11 2026
At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage, Carol Off – some quotes and some notes
At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage, Carol Off – some quotes and some notes “The word [‘freedom’] has been hijacked by those who seek liberation from their responsibility to others.” 5 “[T]he issue [of reproductive rights] has been reframed by the judiciary as an equal contest between the rights of …
Sep 10 2026
from The End of Men, Hanna Rosin
Recommended! A few quotes and notes … “Women … make up almost 60 percent today [of pharmacists]…” p118 And the average income was $110,000/yr (and that was in 2012!) “‘Get a college degree! If you get a degree we will give you a shitload of money … and yet men are failing to get the …
Sep 08 2026
from What Happened, Hillary Rodham Clinton
Caveat: Rodham’s book is about way more than Trump, but that’s the part I was most interested in. Furthermore, her chapter on sexism is, in my opinion, far too brief and superficial; I’d attribute Lauer’s questions for her on NBC’s Commander in Chief Forum to sexism, if not outright misogyny. “… I saw him dominate …
Sep 08 2026
In every roomful of men …
https://zawn.substack.com/p/5-statistics-about-misogynistic-violence “Dating men is statistically the most dangerous thing a woman can do—followed closely by living with and having children with men.” Men, read that sentence again. And again. And again. Until you get it. “The specific statistics each study uncovered vary a bit, as you might expect. But the findings remain incredibly consistent. They …
Sep 08 2026
Excellent piece on calling women crazy
https://zawn.substack.com/p/why-is-patriarchy-so-obsessed-with “We tell women deprived of sleep and support in the postpartum period that their exhaustion must be due to their crazy woman hormones. When girls enter puberty—and the world of dehumanization and male abuse it brings—we pretend their distress is due to vague “puberty hormones.” And when, after a lifetime of exploitation, women are …
Sep 08 2026
How to talk about AI
Excellent article by Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie about how to talk about AI to avoid anthropomorphizing (because, yes, words matter!) (and no, AI isn’t conscious, can’t communicate, has no agency) at https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/ I expecially like their list of alternatives: artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation hybrid intelligence → augmented human intelligence image recognition → …
Sep 06 2026
A woman alone
“When a woman is all alone, she stands out as a woman, but she becomes invisible as a person.” Malcolm Gladwell (in Revenge of the Tipping Point, p123) paraphrasing Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who is speaking about women in groups, such as at work or in sport. Bbut I’m thinking it describes women in life, in …
Sep 05 2026
from Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
I used to think Trump was just stupid. Then I thought he was just a front man, a puppet, for oil CEOs and other rich people. Now I realize that he is, perhaps in addition to the above, really good at blackmailing people for whatever he wants. Reading this book has released me of my …
Sep 02 2026
Great comment about the trade imbalance (aka deficit)
“I’m going to leave you with this, okay? If you’re MAGA, if you’re conservative, okay, you don’t like that trade imbalance, right? Because you’ve only ever heard of it from Donald Trump and he doesn’t understand it. He doesn’t want you to understand. I want you to think, just um a test for yourself, an …
Sep 02 2026
Fighting Words (fiction from Fighting Words)
She was so tired of it. They all were. Every day, as they walked from one classroom to the next, or to the cafeteria, or to the gym, “Hey, ho!” “Gonna do me?” “C’mere, I got somethin’ for you!” Then from school to the bus stop. “Y’all jus’ bitches, you know that, right?” “She’s …
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