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Nov 10 2026
I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin, Katy Brent
Too anchored in feminine traditions/stereotypes I find detestable, but there were, for me, five nuggets:
“Fuck’s sake, men. They’re putty if you’re stroking either their ego or their dick.” p99
“Jesus fucking Christ, there is nothing I hate more than when grown men refer to themselves as boys.” p102
Nov 10 2026
Sweet Sixteen (fiction from Fighting Words)
It’s John’s sixteenth birthday tomorrow. He’s coming of age. His cousin, Jane, who lives just down the street, won’t come of age until her eighteenth birthday, and everyone said at the beginning how unfair that was, but truth be told, and John knows it, guys can do a lot of damage between sixteen and …
Nov 04 2026
Liberty Street, Heather Marshall – Recommended
Recommended read, but here are just a couple insights that struck me …
“Women—married women with children, specifically—always seemed to be telling Emily she couldn’t understand certain things until she was married.” 15
Yeah, I used to get that a lot. I should’ve replied “Yeah, and you can’t …
Oct 31 2026
Difficult Women
“It actually doeosn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” Jane Goodall
Oct 28 2026
Thinking about voting Republican?
Read this first:
“Report: Over 900 Women Arrested for Pregnancy Outcomes”, Jessica Valenti
https://jessica.substack.com/p/report-over-900-women-arrested-for
Oct 28 2026
One of the Good Guys, Araminta Hall
Highly recommended.
Best prologue ever.
“… you’ll always be a hero, just for doing what a illion women do everywhere every day.” p141
“I realize then that he is never, ever going to understand. That, in fact, he doesn’t want to understand because it will mean giving up what he wants.” …
Oct 27 2026
What Sane Man (fiction from Fighting Words)
She pushed the chair against the wall. It was a sturdy armed chair; that’s why she preferred this motel. Then she helped him, still a bit groggy from the drink she’d doctored at the bar, from the doorway to the chair. Using zip ties—impossible to loosen, let alone break—she lashed his wrists to the …
Oct 19 2026
Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino – quotes and comments
from Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino
I found her opening essay, “The I in the Internet” enlightening:
“Because there were so few search engines [in the 1990s] and no centralized social platforms, discovery on the early internet took place mainly in private, and pleasure existed as its own solitary reward.” p5
Interesting …
Oct 15 2026
Justified (fiction from Fighting Words)
It was inevitable.
By 2035, almost overnight, all of my classes were two-thirds female, one-third male. We’d finally achieved the critical mass I thought wouldn’t ever happen. Correction. I thought wouldn’t happen in time. I was middle-aged when the most powerful county in the world elected for President not the former Secretary of …
Oct 07 2026
The Conductor (movie recommendation) and Jarrett (a short story)
I’ve just watched “The Conductor” (tubi tv) about Antonia Brico’s struggle to become a conductor and her eventual creation of the New York Women’s Symphony Orchestra, and watched with dismay the stats at the end … of the top 20%, then top 50%, orchestras, not one has ever had a female conductor.
And …
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