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Jan 20
A woman in Milgram’s experiment
So I’m reading Humanity: a hopeful history by Rutger Bregman, and he says the guy hired by Milgram to pressure the participants to shock the ‘learner’ actually “came to blows with one forty-six-year-old woman who turned the shock machine off” (p.165).
YAY US!
(Funny how this is never mentioned in Psych 101 textbooks that report …
Jan 18
So much time advocating heterosexual marriage
There’s a reason we devote so much time to getting little girls invested in the idea of heterosexual marriage.
Imagine if we told them that there is a single life choice that will:
-shorten their life expectancy
-lower their earning power
-immediately increase their household labor
-erode their mental health and make them less happy
…
Jan 16
Archive of feminist activism 70s-90s
For those of you who weren’t born yet …
Rise Up: a digital archive of feminist activism
You don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
Jan 14
The hardest part about being a woman…
Reposted from ovarit (if you’re not aware of ovarit.com, you should be!)
Jan 10
from Rebecca Solnit’s Recollections
From Rebecca Solnit’s Recollections of my Non Existence
“To be a young woman is to face your annihilation in innumerable ways ….” (p4)
“I was often unaware of what and why I was resisting ….” (p4)
Yes. Let’s not understate the value of having words for what we experience. The words ‘sexism’ and ‘misogyny’ didn’t …
Jan 07
Women’s Locker Room Talk
“One woman warning you about a creepy dude and a dozen other women chiming in with their own stories is our version of locker room talk.” Caitlin Kelly
reposted from https://www.facebook.com/radfemsca
Jan 05
“Men need Sex” — a story about a story
So I wrote a story, “Men Need Sex.” I started with the mistaken, but wide-spread, belief that men need sex (PIV). Mistaken because, unlike food, water, and oxygen, without sex, you don’t die. Then, ‘inspired’ by Roger Elliott, I thought, ‘What if?’ What if men really did die if they didn’t get sex. I postulated …
Jan 01
A tale of two athletes – thanks to ovarit
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Books by Peg Tittle
Writing as Jass Richards
Writing as Chris Wind
