But if you’re not into it, at least watch episode 8 of season 1.
(on Crave TV)
July 2025 archive
Jul 24
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 …
Jul 06
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
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
from Pretending, Holly Bourne
“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 01
A quick note about 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
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 …
Books by Peg Tittle
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