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Sep 04
from The Yearbook, Holly Bourne
“The group chat should essentially just have been titled Adam breathed—applaud.” p29
Was anyone else out there the invisible little sister?
“The end of childhood — realizing adults don’t know what the hell they’re doing.” p55
“My future wasn’t something the family ever really discussed. I guess I was supposed to just figure that …
Aug 21
from Pain and Prejudice: What Science Can Learn about Work from the People Who Do It, Karen Messing
First, note that the title really should be “…from the Women Who Do It”
Chap 2 “The Invisible World of Cleaning” – very enlightening for those who’ve never had a cleaning job, including about the idiocy of those in management positions
“… the village where the women’s backs were all bent because their brooms were …
Aug 16
How would that matter indeed.
“What do you think she would be like in bed?”“I’ve nevr met her.”“How would that matter?”
So telling.
Jul 26
Hacks – highly recommended
But if you’re not into it, at least watch episode 8 of season 1.
(on Crave TV)
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 …
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