“Rape: leave it to men to turn the creation of life into a degradation.” from Jess (forthcoming), Peg Tittle
Category: violence
Feb 06 2022
excerpts from MacKinnon’s Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws
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 …
Dec 31 2021
Killing What You Enjoy
So I saw an ad on the website of the far-too-nearby gun club for a book by one of its members (“The Gun Guy”) that “takes the reader through the joyful and humorous stories about life at the hunt camp, hunting culture, and the joys of nature and wildlife.” I wrote him a short letter: …
Nov 01 2021
Open Season on Women: More evidence of the pornification of our society
I live in a small lake-centered community about three hours north of Toronto, consisting of about thirty houses: about ten are occupied year-round; the others are occupied mostly just during the summer. So, small neighbourhood. Over the past few years, I’ve experienced six instances of what I would call over-the-top insult. Specifically misogynist insult. Man …
Nov 08 2020
Hunting – simply unjustified
It’s hunting season again — moose for a week, then deer for two weeks — and I have yet to hear an acceptable justification. The animals are having enough trouble surviving because of what we’ve done, and what we’re still doing, to the forests. And now you want to just go out and kill them. …
Dec 07 2018
How to Make a Man Grow Up
I was recently surprised to discover that in the U.S., men are required by law to register for the “selective service system”. Only men. I thought women were allowed in their military now. And required. I didn’t think they had ‘the draft’ anymore. When I expressed my surprise, hoping to engage someone in conversation, the …
Aug 22 2018
The Grammar of Male Violence – quick perception-changing read
Read this (takes a couple minutes) and your perceptions will be forever changed: http://www.ncdsv.org/images/GrammarofMaleViolence_9-10-2004.pdf
May 28 2017
What’s Wrong with Power (a few preliminary thoughts)
The thing about power (power over others, that is, not power over oneself) is that it can interfere with the other’s freedom of choice. But it does so only if they use that power, you may wish to clarify. So people should simply not use their power over others; they should not even show they …
May 02 2017
A Great Twisty Faster post: “That can’t be sexual assault because it’s normal”
Thought I’d start reposting some of Twisty’s pieces (because, really, they need to be read again and again) (sigh). http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2014/02/01/that-cant-be-sexual-assault-because-its-normal/
Mar 07 2017
Ten years later, she meets Dick, and he’s so –
You’re so – different. Not such an – Yeah. It’s like before I was so – driven. It’s like I was in a car, no, I was the car. And it was always in high gear, in screaming high gear. I had to get somewhere, I always had to get somewhere. I couldn’t sit …
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