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Peg Tittle
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May 01 2022
Leafblowers bad for the environment. Duh.
“According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1997), as people across the United States re-fuel their leaf blowers and lawnmowers, they slop approximately 17 million gallons of gasoline onto the ground each summer, gas that seeps into the water we drink and evaporates into the air we breathe. To put that number in perspective, the …
Apr 30 2022
Great scene from Shriver’s novel … disciplinary charges for threatening behavior…
An excerpt from Lionel Shriver’s The Motion of the Body through Space The whole tribunal, wherein an older white man is “hauled up on disciplinary charges for threatening behavior and racially and sexually aggravated assault”), indeed the whole chapter, is WELL WORTH the read. *** REMINGTON: Just because she felt threatened doesn’t mean she was …
Apr 30 2022
How to be Successful without Hurting Men’s Feelings, Sarah Cooper
A light fun read with a few great punches: – re the perfect voice pitch for women … too high and you’re shrill, too low and you’re gruff, just right “not yet achieved by any woman” – chap 2 – lots of ‘When a man says X, it’s Y, but when a woman says X, …
Apr 30 2022
Archive of feminist activism 70s-90s
For those of you who weren’t born yet … Rise Up: a digital archive of feminist activism You don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
Apr 29 2022
When someone tells you transwomen aren’t really a problem…
A post by Namename over on Feminist Current: We have already seen men demand access to female prisons and be given it (several countries), and on at least one occasion that has led to female prisoners being assaulted. We have seen men insist on access to female rape shelters on several occasions (several countries), and …
Apr 27 2022
excerpt from Pornography and Civil Rights, MacKinnon/Dworkin
Pornography [also] engenders sex discrimination. By making a public spectacle and a public celebration of the worthlessness of women, by valuing women as sluts, by defining women according to our availability for sexual use, pornography makes all women’s social worthlessness into a public standard. Do you think such a being is likely to become Chairman …
Apr 25 2022
Postscript to 13 Reasons Why
In case anyone’s still watching 13 Reasons Why (and see my lengthy post at https://www.hellyeahimafeminist.com/13-reasons-make-movie-maybe-write-novel-without-acknowledging-elephant-room/) … Tyler’s getting raped is presented as SO MUCH WORSE than either Jessica or Hannah getting raped. OF COURSE.
Apr 21 2022
Internet access inequality
Sent this letter to Rogers, don’t expect a reply, but thought it worth posting here .as well .. Hello Rogers: I have just discovered your Internet 25 plan whereby people can get 450GB/month for a mere $70. I live three hours north of Toronto; the only plan available to me is 7GB/month for pretty …
Apr 20 2022
If Michelangelo had been a woman …
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