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Peg Tittle
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Apr 12 2024
Eggs and Chicken and Abortion
(thanks to Dead Wild Roses https://deadwildroses.com/2023/03/05/the-dwr-sunday-religious-disservice-eggs/)
Mar 26 2024
from Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – quotes and notes
When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court? Her answer: When there are nine. “[L]egal challenges to undue restrictions on abortion procedures … center on a woman’s autonomy to determine her life’s course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature …” Gonzales v. Carhart [She wasn’t pleased with the argument of Roe …
Mar 01 2024
sexual assault in the military
from “Dishonorable Behavior” Elizabeth D. Samet Dishonorable Behavior Some good bits: “Among the linguistic tics cadets most quickly acquire is the use of the noun female in lieu of woman. They see it in formal briefings and official documents, and they hear it in everyday conversation. Woman is by far the more usual choice in …
Mar 01 2024
It’s as simple as this – “Polluters do not …”
“Polluters do not deserve to live. That’s the first thing children are taught: Do not foul the life system.” from “Touchdown” by Nancy Kress
Feb 25 2024
On rape and being drunk
So I watched “The Assault” (on peacock) last night … about a cheerleader who gets raped by the team … sigh … but there was something that really made me stop and think. (Always a good thing.) They claimed she consented, she was drunk/unconscious so even if she had consented, it would be considered invalid …
Feb 19 2024
Men’s Studies Modified, Dale Spender, ed. (1981) – quotes and notes
“Adrienne Rich (1979) [commented that] objectivity is the name we give to male subjectivity.” Introduction, p5 “Anna Bexall (1980) [ has suggested that] males have a great emotional investment in objectivity.” Introduction, p5 “… the ways we have been ‘protected’ from obscenity, yet made the object of much of it.” from “A Thief …
Feb 08 2024
an interesting comment about the dominance of binary
(from Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman) She writes, regarding a creature with a radial form, “something like a five-armed starfish” … “But the radial pattern which had developed out of the budding spiral had remained throughout evolution and completely dominated all mental and psychic processes” (p11) Is that why we’re so obsessed with binary? …
Feb 04 2024
“Clapping for your own erasure”
Great video. Watch to the end, as Irene Brit expresses the situation so … succinctly.
Jan 24 2024
from Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: a feminist dictionary, a woman’s companion to words and ideas, by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A. Treichler
A hefty book of over 500 pages of entries, but worth, at the very least, a skim through for words of interest to you. Here are a few that I love: Academia: a hierarchy whose “purpose is the production of prestige” (Jo Freeman, 1979) Acknowledgements: … where authors acknowledged the ideas and intellectual contributions …
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