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Sep 10 2026
from The End of Men, Hanna Rosin
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
In every roomful of men …
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
Excellent piece on calling women crazy
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 06 2026
A woman alone
“When a woman is all alone, she stands out as a woman, but she becomes invisible as a person.”
Malcolm Gladwell (in Revenge of the Tipping Point, p123) paraphrasing Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who is speaking about women in groups, such as at work or in sport.
Bbut I’m thinking it describes women …
Sep 02 2026
Fighting Words (a story from Fighting Words)
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?” …
Aug 30 2026
Check out Feminist Works on Substack
https://feministworks.substack.com/archive
https://feministworks.substack.com/archive
I’ve just discovered this and already I’ve read several EXCELLENT articles …
https://virginiaweaver.substack.com/p/women-do-not-owe-you-your-manhood
https://sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/29-from-the-world-cup-to-the-senate
https://feminists.substack.com/p/who-elected-the-algorithm
https://badwoman.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-men-as-simple-creatures
Aug 29 2026
Man or Bear … and still clueless
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 …
Aug 22 2026
How We Survived
How We Survived (a story from Fighting Words)
You’re wondering how it happened. How did we survive? How did our population suddenly plummet from six billion to half that. Enabling our natural resources to recover and, eventually, support us. All of us.
In 2020, all of the indicators pointed to our imminent …
Aug 15 2026
There’s ‘pretty’ and there’s ‘smart’
A few days ago, trying to understand Trump’s becoming President, I searched for videos making fun of American stupidity. And I came across this: Miss Teen USA 2007 – South Carolina
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww).
The contestant from South Carolina is presented with this: “A recent poll has shown that a fifth of Americans can’t …
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