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What if all news were written this way?

From the RadFem News Service the news, without the male-supremacist spin (LOVE that!) “Today, one Dr. Frank Ochberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Michigan State University and former Associate Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, reports for CNN that boys and men are responsible for almost all school shootings, consistently, around the world. …” Read …

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Shriver on healthcare costs

from “In Defense of Death,” in Abominations, Lionel Shriver “In the United Kingdom, 40 percent of the government’s budget goes to the National Health Service …” (p222) “Alas, for many patients, we don’t extend life but drag out death …” (p225) Among the recommendations attributed to Daniel Callahan (Taming the Beloved Beast) … “Return to …

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The Frightening Cluelessness of PoliSci Students

“I was studying political science at the time, so I had never thought about social processes like misogyny and sexism.”  What?  What? (from https://narratively.com/i-was-an-angry-mens-rights-activist-now-im-a-fierce-feminist/)

Let me tell you how much I HATE MEN! (reblogged)

https://elementalwitch.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/let-me-tell-you-how-much-i-hate-men/ And here it is (in case it disappears): I’m a feminazi. I laugh at men, but not at their stupid jokes. I want to take away their porn—erm, sorry, I mean “free speech.” I won’t fuck them or flirt with them. I don’t find them interesting. I think they look like mutants. I hate…I …

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Great bit from wwomenwwarriors

From “It is my judgement in these things that when you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it, and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. I don’t think anybody opposed …

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good bit from Graeber’s “Bullshit Jobs”

“If 1% of the population controls most of its disposable wealth, what we call ‘the market’ reflects what THEY think is useful or important, not anybody else.” “Bullshit Jobs,” David Graeber (p.xx)

She wanted it.

She was dressed like a slut = She wanted it She was dressed all prim and proper = She wanted it She was aggressive = She wanted it She was submissive = She wanted it She ran = She wanted it She didn’t run = She wanted it She was afraid = She wanted it …

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A woman was raped. A man raped a woman.

A woman was raped.  A man raped a woman. He got her pregnant.  She made him a father. Submit your additions via comment.

“The Fragile Male” – interesting reading

Here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119278/

I’m ashamed to be male.

I am ashamed to be male. We turn everything into a weapon. We are obsessed with competing, with being better than not our previous selves, but others. We enjoy hurting.  We tear the legs off flies, we put firecrackers into dogs’ mouths, we attach electrodes to people’s genitalia. We are unable to experience pleasure without …

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