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Peg Tittle
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Jan 23 2023
from The Pornography of Meat, Carol J. Adams
“It takes 25 minutes to turn a live steer into steak at the modern slaughterhouse where Roman Moreno works. For 20 years, his post was ‘second-legger’, a job that entails cutting hocks off carcasses as they whirl past at a rate of 309 an hour. “The cattle were supposed to be dead before they got …
Jan 20 2023
What harm does it do?
So I’ve received a 1/5 review of Gender Fraud: a fiction at Goodreads by someone claiming, basically, TERF!!! Expected. Sigh. But the reviewer did ask a question that I should have been able to answer, which was ‘What harm does it do if a transwoman wants to call herself a woman?’ Well, here’s the answer:
Jan 17 2023
Arthur Jeon’s novel, Snowflake — a must read
Snowflake (Arthur Jeon) should have been published by a major publisher and promoted with a huge budget, and it should be on every bestseller list by now. That it wasn’t and it’s not proves Ben’s point. Some excerpts below … [Author’s note: “The media headlines, tweets, and quotes are authentic. And, as of 2020, …
Jan 15 2023
Women and networking, putting yourself out there (why we find it hard) …
insights about women and networking (why we find it hard) from “Living the Life of the Mind” Charlotte Knowles (The Philosophers’ Magazine 90) “Reticence to put yourself out there or an uncomfortableness about marching up to a veritable stranger and introducing yourself, is something that I think is particularly common for those belonging to underrepresented …
Jan 10 2023
Andrea Dworkin addressing an audience of about 500 men …
“…why are you so slow? Why are you so slow to understand the simplest things; not the complicated ideological things. You understand those. The simple things. The cliches. Simply that women are human to precisely the degree and quality that you are. “It is an extraordinary thing to try to understand and confront why it …
Jan 05 2023
If you can’t say anything nice, maybe there’s nothing nice to say. Say it anyway.
If you’re a woman, you’ve surely been told, reprimanded, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.’ To the extent that there may be nothing nice to say, that standard of politeness has crippled us. It has made us keep our opinions to ourselves. My neighbours have their tv on all the …
Jan 01 2023
How to Write a Scientific Paper, Schulman – from the delightfully funny AIR
I’ve recently discovered the website of AIR – Annals of Improbable Research – a magazine which I subscribed to way back when. I’ve been working my way through the site and highly recommend same to others interested in a sort of ‘Monty Python does Science’ humour. Just read How to “Write a Scientific Paper” https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume2/v2i5/howto.htm …
Dec 30 2022
On getting paid. Or not.
So I was reading James Morrow’s The Wine of Violence and when I got to “Will the Journal of Evolution publish it? Publish, it, hell, they’ll make me an editor” (p25), I stopped, puzzled for a moment. Then it hit me. To Francis, the character whose thoughts those are, becoming an editor means status and …
Dec 29 2022
40 Useful Concepts – from Twitter via Dead Wild Roses
https://deadwildroses.com/2022/12/01/40-useful-concepts-from-of-all-places-twitter/ In 40 tweets I will explain 40 useful concepts you should know. 1. Ostrich Effect: We often try to avoid info that we fear will cause us stress. Thus bills and work emails remain unopened, bank balances remain unchecked. This is counterproductive because ignoring a problem doesn’t eliminate the problem or your anxiety; it …
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