Oct 15 2026
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 06 2026
I used to think chaperones were chaperoning young women, in order to, you know, make sure they didn’t engage in, gasp, any immoral behavior.
Now I think the chaperones were chaperoning the young men, in order to, you know, make sure they didn’t rape the young women.
And I think maybe we …
Oct 06 2026
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
It took me until p79 to see where this was going—the title should’ve clued me in sooner, but—without spoilers, let me just say that compared to her husband, the husbands’ behavior at the dinner party (p91) is so … stark. And therefore so telling.
The boxed online chats are so …
Sep 23 2026
Great read! Some quotes and comments …
“He tosses the cap onto the floor.” p2
As soon as he takes a bottle from the garage fridge and tosses the cap onto the floor, I hated him. Is he going to pick up the cap later? Clean up after himself? Don’t think so. …
Sep 16 2026
We got so tired of hearing that. Men need sex. There were so many iterations, so many variations …
In 1943, Maslow, in his hierarchy of needs, included sex among the physiological needs that must be satisfied before anything else. Unfortunately, his theory, along with an unforgettable pyramid illustration, became accepted as fact, …
Sep 10 2026
Recommended!
A few quotes and notes …
“Women … make up almost 60 percent today [of pharmacists]…” p118
And the average income was $110,000/yr (and that was in 2012!)
“‘Get a college degree! If you get a degree we will give you a shitload of money … and yet men …
Sep 08 2026
https://zawn.substack.com/p/5-statistics-about-misogynistic-violence
“Dating men is statistically the most dangerous thing a woman can do—followed closely by living with and having children with men.”
Men, read that sentence again. And again. And again. Until you get it.
“The specific statistics each study uncovered vary a bit, as you might expect. But the findings …
Sep 08 2026
https://zawn.substack.com/p/why-is-patriarchy-so-obsessed-with
“We tell women deprived of sleep and support in the postpartum period that their exhaustion must be due to their crazy woman hormones. When girls enter puberty—and the world of dehumanization and male abuse it brings—we pretend their distress is due to vague “puberty hormones.” And when, after a lifetime of exploitation, …
Aug 29 2026
So I recently posted this on a local Facebook page: “I’m looking for a woman with carpentry skills and tools to build a sound-absorbing enclosure for a generator. Please leave a message.”*
Three men and three women replied.
Two of the men made light of my preference for a woman (“I could …
Jul 18 2026
“We don’t occupy their imaginations the way they occupy ours.” Black scientist about his white colleagues (from the movie “Black Cake”)
Yeah. Now imagine that ten-fold for a female scientist.
