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 …
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 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, …
Sep 02 2026
She was so tired of it. They all were. Every day, as they walked from one classroom to the next, or to the cafeteria, or to the gym, “Hey, ho!” “Gonna do me?” “C’mere, I got somethin’ for you!”
Then from school to the bus stop. “Y’all jus’ bitches, you know that, right?” …
Jun 25 2026
“A guy on a bicycle was staring at her so intently he nearly got hit by a bus. ‘Watch out,’ she cried, but the sound was swallowed by the simultaneous blast of the bus driver’s horn. The biker swerved, and the bus just missed him. He slammed into a parked car and was thrown to …
Jun 18 2026
There’s a lot here and every bit is worth reading.
Better yet, just get the book. And read it. Every word.
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from blurb for Ford’s I Don’t
“why do so many women still believe that our value is intrinsically tied to being chosen by a man?”
“Ford explains …
Jun 02 2026
“… when sex doll and robot advocates promote the use of these products as being beneficial for ‘people’, they mean male people. When they claim sex robots could help alleviate loneliness, they mean men’s loneliness, not women’s. When they argue sex robots could be used by the elderly, they mean elderly men. When they …
