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Mar 05 2022
It’s hard to get upset about 5 million people dying per year from COVID when more than twice that, 13 million, die each year die from air and water pollution. And over 120 million have died of global warming as of 2000 according to WHO. (Can’t find stats for since then.) Not seeing daily coverage …
Feb 27 2022
So I went to get my COVID booster vaccine the other day, and I asked one of the attendants whether she knew the science, any statistical data, regarding my likelihood of experiencing side-effects (I’d had a rough go of it after the second dose and wondered whether I’d be in for the same with the …
Feb 27 2022
Also while reading James Morrow’s The Wine of Violence… ” … a world finally wanted his ideas.” (p119) That stopped me. Because even academia, not just the world at large, had never wanted my ideas. Simply because they come from a female-embodied person. Maybe that’s why ‘love’ is so much more important to women than …
Feb 20 2022
So I clicked on one of the embedded videos on a Facebook page supporting the truckers’ protest, and this young guy rambled on and on about how he fought in Afghanistan for our freedom … Um, don’t think so. I was free before you went to Afghanistan. I had freedom of thought, freedom of expression, …
Feb 19 2022
If this is what (some) Canadians do when they have to wear a mask, imagine what’s going to happen when the consequences of global warming really start to hit us, when … they have to stand in line not just for toilet paper, but for food – because, due to the increasing droughts, the loss of …
Feb 17 2022
Freedom’s just another word for ‘I can do whatever I want.’ Mature people realize that freedoms should be limited. (Because otherwise assault would always be okay.) Now. Let’s talk about reasonable and unreasonable limitations.
Feb 10 2022
Check it out here. (#2 is inspired by incels and #3, #4, #6, #8, and #17 are inspired by transgenders, for those who remain oblivious of what’s going on in those fringe-to-mainstream movements; the rest are and have been forever the case…)
Feb 08 2022
“Rape: leave it to men to turn the creation of life into a degradation.” from Jess (forthcoming), Peg Tittle
Feb 06 2022
I’ve just finished reading yet another MacKinnon book, Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws, and as usual, it’s absolutely brilliant. The book is well worth a complete read; I paste below some perfect gems. (My used copy is marked DISCARD by the Porter County Library system. In itself, telling. Sigh.) Reading this now. It’s heavy-going, but well …
Jan 24 2022
Check it out – The best books to make you think about gender (and sex)