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Peg Tittle
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Jun 12 2023
Great bit from The Onion
https://www.theonion.com/raid-recalls-entire-line-of-insecticide-after-realizing-1828656335
Jun 08 2023
another good bit from Tim Dorsey
“I can buy a shotgun any time of day without a serious background check, but if I need something for my sniffles, it’s six forms of ID and complete school transcripts.” Shark Skin Suite, p160
Jun 08 2023
from Tim Dorsey’s Shark Skin Suite
on the demise of journalism, news reporting… “Newspapers, TV, radio, and websites everywhere were furiously consolidating into mega-media conglomerates. News was heading in a fresh direction … The owners and top execs saw their compensation rocket, and top television anchors in each market signed guaranteed contracts in the upper six figures. Everyone else was told …
Jun 07 2023
Date Preparation in a Male Supremacy
“Men worry that their date won’t measure up to their aesthetic preferences. Women worry that they’re going to wind up dead.” Read the rest here: https://deadwildroses.com/2016/03/28/date-preparation-for-females-and-males/
Jun 05 2023
If women completed work based on their percentage of wages compared to men
This is hilarious. And enraging. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-women-completed-work-based-on-their-percentage-of-wages-compared-to-men
May 30 2023
Brilliant bit from Rageagainstthemanchine
“Not to bring up Robert Jensen every three sentences, but he’s made a point that I find extremely salient when it comes to how porn affects women’s lives. If I have to go to court tomorrow, or I have to go discuss my career with my boss, or I have to work on a project …
May 26 2023
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Recommended! A few quotes and notes: “… pregnancy as a proxy for punishment …” (p.x) But only for the women, even though the men are mostly responsible for causing the pregnancy (males have 100% control over ejaculation in a vagina; females have no control over whatsoever over ovulation and very seldom force a man to …
May 24 2023
Rereading Refusing to be a Man: essays on sex and justice, John Stoltenberg
Read this years ago, but thought I’d read it again as I hadn’t been able to afford to actually buy it back then … Talking about how men typically behave, he says they “[disregard] completely the reality of anyone who is not fawning and flattering and full of awe for our masculine prerogative …” (p24). …
May 10 2023
from Jack Holland’s A Brief History of Misogyny
(All quotes are from Jack Holland’s A Brief History of Misogyny) “It was a battle for the ultimate mechanism of control within a woman’s body—her reproductive cycle. For a woman, this right is the most crucial of all, and the key to achieving real autonomy. Misogyn denies her autonomy; her subordination depends on the lack …
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