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Unpregnant (the movie)

The movie titled Unpregnant has been on my list for a while, but I’ve just subscribed to CRAVE. One, I was appalled to see that the movie is categorized as a comedy. I suspect the categorizing is done not by CRAVE staff, but according to the movie’s submitted metadata, which means it’s the writer, director …

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from Slow Motion: changing masculinities, changing men, Lynne Segal

“The question of why it is men, and most often fathers or step-fathers, who sexually abuse children is not addressed [in recent books on fathering].” p55 “And far from criticizing women for failing to satisfy men’s needs, feminists … question whence these ‘needs’ derive, and whether these needs themselves should not be seen as the …

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The obsession with Mars

The obsession with any sort of off-planet future is completely irrational. Look: Mars, for example, is uninhabitable as is. So you’re going to have to build bubbles or bunkers to live in. So why not just build them here? Save the travel expenses.

a few of the many insights in Holly Bourne’s When We Were Friends

“That song [“Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” by Carole King) is the most true song that’s ever been written.” p175 “Speaking so loudly [about football] and with such arrogant authority that everyone else sort of had to listen.” p219 “Is it just me or is it crazy that football chat is taken seriously when …

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Truth

Only someone who doesn’t know very much thinks the truth is simple. (just finished Crichton’s Airframe,which illustrates that very claim through, notably, a reporter)

Bill Maher – yes! what he said!

Watch it at least until the June 31 bit.

Freedom of Speech vs DEI initiatives

Margaret Munn – Defending Freedom of Speech in Canada: The Impact of DEI Initiatives

Men ‘experience’ labour pain

Read the comments too, especially about the relative duration of the pain …

Jeffrey Sachs – listen to this

Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher – delightful!

“… I argued that the arts are a form of diversity [which was] sadly characterized as ‘divisive’” p28 “… watching me pull at what remains of my hair while I stamp back and forth in paroxysms of incredulty caused by the half-baked ideas casually lobbed in my direction from the back of the room.” p55 …

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