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Jul 06 2021
The Brilliant Monty Python on trans …
And to think they said all this over 40 years ago. Yup. 1979.
Jul 03 2021
“A disagreeable reality …” – aurora linnea
“A disagreeable reality of the patriarchal society in which we live is that, lacking a proactive effort to overturn male supremacy, when men and women come together in groups, the men rise to power. They take over, and what was supposed to be shared territory becomes just one more zone of patriarchy. This is …
Jul 02 2021
How to Negotiate a Raise (if you’re a woman)
Brilliant piece at McSweeney’s: How to Negotiate a Raise (if you’re a woman)
May 17 2021
Great scene from Shriver’s novel … disciplinary charges for threatening behavior…
An excerpt from Lionel Shriver’s The Motion of the Body through Space
The whole tribunal, wherein an older white man is “hauled up on disciplinary charges for threatening behavior and racially and sexually aggravated assault”), indeed the whole chapter, is WELL WORTH the read.
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REMINGTON: Just because she felt threatened …
May 12 2021
Dysphoric – “fleeing womanhood like a house on fire” – a four-part documentary series by Vaishnavi Sundar
Well worth watching!
May 11 2021
Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off (2nd edn)
NOW AVAILABLE! in print and ebook, 374p
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The title says it all.
A collection of close to two hundred exposes and analyses of everyday sexist shit (and gender shit, since gender is aligned with sex) that pisses me off.
Includes pieces previously published …
May 09 2021
Why don’t men sell sex?
Check this out:
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May 07 2021
“For All Mankind” (an apple tv series)- absolutely appalling
I know. Given the title, I never should have bothered. And I certainly shouldn’t’ve expected, let alone hoped, for anything remotely alternative (the series is billed as ‘alternative history’). Alternative to the male dominance, the white male dominance, the relentlessly juvenile competition and all the rest of disgusting masculinity (when the Soviets landed on …
May 04 2021
something fundamentally male about escaping to Mars…
“And there is something fundamentally male about this narrative of exit [establishing colonies on Mars, for example], of escape as a means toward the nobility of self-determination. The cultural critic Sarah Sharma has argued for an understanding of exit as an exercise of patriarchal power, ‘a privilege that occurs at the expense of cultivating …
Books by Peg Tittle
Writing as Jass Richards
Writing as Chris Wind
