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Peg Tittle
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Jul 26 2025
A brilliant observation by Kierkegaard from 1838
“People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of expression as compensation.” Kierkegaard (1838)
Jul 24 2025
from Fraternity Gang Rape, Peggy Reeves Sanday
“Rape [is] rare in 47 percent of the societies studied and common in 18 percent of them. … In the more rape-prone societies there [is] greater sexual segregation, male social dominance, interpersonal violence, and the subordination of women” p4 “… in the United States, which is in all likelihood one of the most rape-prone societies …
Jul 09 2025
Dear Canada: Please stop your fires; the smoke is ruining our summer.
https://tiffany.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/tiffany.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/canadian_wildfire_smoke_letter.pdf Are you fucking kidding me? “With all the technology that we have at our disposal, both in preventing and fighting wildfires, this worrisome trend can be reversed if proper action is taken.” Right. Bet you can reverse global warming too. Go ahead. Try it. Please. “Our constituents have been limited in their ability to …
Jul 09 2025
“Thinking Being Offloaded to AI Even in Elite Medical Programs”
Thinking Being Offloaded to AI Even in Elite Medical Programs “I can’t remember the last time I asked a medical student in tutorial group a question that was answered without looking at a screen.” And this: “We have a 1M master solution, we need to make a 50 mL of buffer that has that component …
Jul 07 2025
from The Lost Cause, Cory Doctorow – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
A compassionate and frightening and optimistic near future that’s right here and almost right now. There are so many whole paragraphs I wanted to copy … p62, p238, p269 “Things are gonna get so much worse in the years to come. More fires. More floods. More trauma, and that means more of this shit, people …
Jul 06 2025
aurora linnea’s review of Laura Lecuona’s “Gender Identity: Lies and Dangers
Excellent and clarifying summary and review of Lecona’s book (and gender and sex and why it’s such an issue …). We Just Can’t Shut Up About Gender: A Review of Gender Identity: Lies and Dangers, by Laura Lecuona “…sex is a biological fact while gender is patriarchal fiction; the gender system is a hierarchy, not …
Jul 06 2025
Men and Women in the 21st Century
None of these quotes (all from The Unmade Bed by Stephen Marche) are representative of what the book’s about, but they do reveal, perhaps unintentionally, Marche’s subtitle, “The messy truth about men and women in the 21st century”. “Eventually, David Granger, the editor-in-chief of Esquire, read something I’d written for the Toronto Star and called …
Jul 05 2025
from Pretending, Holly Bourne – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
“You are a fucking disgrace. You have RAPED someone you claim you love and now dare to be upset that she’s upset about it. Why are you all such dicks? What’s wrong with you? WHAT The ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? …” p222 “This is how it feels when someone doesn’t stop, I say …
Jul 03 2025
a quick note re sexual harassment
Annoyance is the least of it. Especially when it happens in the workplace, it’s distracting; let’s just get the job done. Then there’s the disgust, the eew factor, of a man jiggling his crotch, for example, while looking at us. We do not find that appealing; we are not aroused by that. Then there’s the …
Jul 01 2025
reading In Our Time, Susan Brownmiller
In In Our Time, Susan Brownmiller, the author of the ground-breaking Against Our Will tell what it was like, the second-wave feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Highly recommended. p2 re jobs for men and women p5-6 what it was like before abortion was legal “Women the world over are required to modify their …
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