Category: violence
Jan 28 2021
December, Like It’s 1989
December, Like It’s 1989
Tell it. Geneviève Bergeron, civil engineering Hélène Colgan, mechanical engineering Nathalie Croteau, mechanical engineering Barbara Daigneault, mechanical engineering Anne-Marie Edward, chemical engineering Maud Haviernick, materials engineering Maryse Laganière, finance department Maryse Leclair, materials engineering Anne-Marie Lemay, mechanical engineering Sonia Pelletier, mechanical engineering Michèle Richard, materials engineering Annie St-Arneault, mechanical engineering Annie Turcotte, materials engineering Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, nursing.
“Hey, come on. Not all men …
Jan 20 2021
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 …
Nov 10 2020
Hunting – only men
It’s hunting season again — moose for a week, then deer for two weeks — and I have yet to hear an acceptable justification.
The animals are having enough trouble surviving because of what we’ve done, and what we’re still doing, to the forests. And now you want to just go out and …
Oct 31 2020
The Montreal Massacre (and Donna Decker’s Dancing in Red Shoes Can Kill You)
People who are/were shocked by the Montreal Massacre don’t know women’s history. Men have been killing us for centuries. Simply because we’re women. They kill each other too, but in that case, it’s mostly because of their target’s sexual orientation, tribal affiliation, or skin color. They kill us because of our sex.
Is …
Oct 08 2020
Bragging about being beaten
A while ago, I saw a post by a woman bragging about her bruises … (should’ve saved the link, but I was just so … appalled …)
In 1976, Women Against Violence Against women (WAVAW) protested and got the Stones’ billboard taken down (it showed a woman bound and bruised saying ‘I’m ‘”Black …
Sep 29 2020
Rape: a men’s issue
Men are the ones who rape, so why is rape a women’s issue? Because men see nothing wrong with rape.
Men: the sooner you recognize this, the sooner you’ll see rape as a men’s issue.
Jun 11 2020
It’s not poverty, stupid.
Poverty is not the cause of crime. Because even when men have enough, they steal more, kill for more.
(Think of all those rich white CEOs running our planet, managing the banks, the oil companies, the logging companies …)
(And given that well over 90% of crime is committed by men, …
Dec 07 2018
How to Make a Man Grow Up
I was recently surprised to discover that in the U.S., men are required by law to register for the “selective service system”.
Only men. I thought women were allowed in their military now.
And required. I didn’t think they had ‘the draft’ anymore.
When I expressed my surprise, hoping to engage someone in conversation, the …
Aug 22 2018
The Grammar of Male Violence – quick perception-changing read
Read this (takes a couple minutes) and your perceptions will be forever changed:
Click to access GrammarofMaleViolence_9-10-2004.pdf
Books by Peg Tittle
Writing as Jass Richards
Writing as Chris Wind
