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Nov 08
Kids Behind the Wheel
The other day, I was walking on the gravel/dirt road I live on. It’s a back road that might see a dozen cars in a day. As one such car passed us, I noticed that a kid was at the wheel in dad’s lap. Proud dad, happy kid.
What is it with that? Why, of …
Oct 25
The “M” word on Prime Time TV!!!! (Misogyny; Scandal)
I’m delightfully surprised by the current season of Scandal. I had trouble getting into the show, and actually, I’m surprised I’m still with it; catching a glimpse of a political debate between two women and Melly’s bid for the presidency kept me involved, even though I don’t really like her, or Olivia …
And this …
Oct 19
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED – Traister’s All the Single Ladies
Just at chapter 3, but I can highly recommend Rebecca Traister’s All the Single Ladies.
A few bits…
“…as the legal scholar Rachel Moran argues, while the feminist movement of the 1970s was in part a ‘direct response to these conditions of early and pervasive marriage,’ the ironic side effect was that single women had almost no place …
Sep 25
A Postscript to Why Feminist Manuscripts Don’t Get Published
So here’s a query letter my friend Chris Wind sent to a publisher recently:
Editor, [XYZ Publishers]:
Feminist theorist Dale Spender wrote, in Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them, “We need to know how patriarchy works. We need to know how women disappear….” Indeed we do. Where …
Aug 15
Why Feminist Manuscripts Aren’t Getting Published Today – McSweeney’s List
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why-feminist-manuscripts-arent-getting-published-today
Jul 09
How Being in Public Feels: Men VS Women – GREAT VIDEO!
https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2017/07/08/how-being-in-public-feels-men-vs-women/
Jun 18
Women Now Empowered … GREAT ONION PIECE
http://www.theonion.com/article/women-now-empowered-by-everything-a-woman-does-1398
Jun 06
Things they’ll never tell you about basketball — and sexism
Things they’ll never tell you about basketball – and sexism
May 28
The Hook (Up) – a short script by Peg Tittle
FADE IN:
INT. BAR — NIGHT
Crowded bar scene. MAN and WOMAN do the standard flirting thing, he buys her a drink, they dance, then exit. Their dialogue isn’t important — the bar’s too loud for us to hear much anyway. But it’s clear that both are willing to engage in the sex that follows.
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Books by Peg Tittle
Writing as Jass Richards
Writing as Chris Wind
