“Humans are a time-binding species, existing, in the eternal now. The future flows through them and becomes the past, but it is always the present that counts.” from “Overdrawn on the Memory Bank” I’ve been thinking that I am UNlike my dog in this respect, in that SHE lives only in the present b/c she …
Category: literature
Mar 14 2025
some nice bits from James Tiptree, Jr.
“Women have no rights, Don, except what men allow us. Men are more aggressive and powerful, and they run the world. …” … “Men and women aren’t different species, Ruth. Women do everything men do.” “Do they?” .. She mutters something that could be “My Lai” and looks away. “All the endless wars …” Her …
Feb 26 2025
some delightful David Brin
“Is there a moral or logical justification for a creator to weild capricious power of life and death over his creations?” from “Stones of Significance” * “Death postponed. Metastasized cells got organized.” “Dinosaurs return. Want their oil back.” (both from Insistence of Vision)
Oct 30 2023
Among the things that don’t count …
[Bernadette Powell, a black woman from Ithaca, New York, is now serving a 15-year-to-life sentence … because in 1978 she shot and killed her ex-husband.] [T]he Tompkins county prosecutor … argued … that [she] had no reason to fear bodily harm from her ex-husband because although the man admittedly had committed many violent acts against …
May 10 2023
from Jack Holland’s A Brief History of Misogyny
(All quotes are from Jack Holland’s A Brief History of Misogyny) “It was a battle for the ultimate mechanism of control within a woman’s body—her reproductive cycle. For a woman, this right is the most crucial of all, and the key to achieving real autonomy. Misogyn denies her autonomy; her subordination depends on the lack …
Mar 15 2023
John Varley’s Dark Lightning
It’s just space opera, but I love that the girls kick ass and the prettyboy hunk is pretty much useless.
Feb 24 2023
Women’s Work, Kari Aguila
An interesting novel, worth the read! “Think about how different our world is going to be when this generation of boys grows up, having been allowed to grow into whole, good, decent men. Nobody is going to tell them that they have to go through life being some stupid caricature of masculinity anymore. They can …
Jan 20 2023
What harm does it do?
So I’ve received a 1/5 review of Gender Fraud: a fiction at Goodreads by someone claiming, basically, TERF!!! Expected. Sigh. But the reviewer did ask a question that I should have been able to answer, which was ‘What harm does it do if a transwoman wants to call herself a woman?’ Well, here’s the answer:
Dec 20 2022
The Assistants by Camille Perri – highly recommended!
Just finished reading Camille Perri’s The Assistants — highly recommended! It’s Nine to Five updated and with a great moral element; better than any nonfiction book about the income inequity between the top 1% and the rest of us … With attitude, to boot! “Robert had tie-clips that cost as much as those [student loan] …
Oct 23 2022
The Privilege of Men, Judith Mazzucco
The Privilege of Men by Judith Mazzucco starts as an unremarkable novel about the meat industry, but then WHAM! the metaphor in chapter 16— At least I think, I hope, it’s a metaphor and not something that’s actually happening somewhere right now. Though—and I’m not sure whether this is Mazzucco’s point or whether she’s ‘just’ …
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