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Dec 26
Wonderful collection of second-wave feminist publications
Wonderful collection of ’60s and ’70s feminist publications (journals, magazines, zines)!
https://www.jstor.org/site/reveal-digital/independent-voices/feminist/?searchkey=1703510072796&acc=on&pagemark=eyJwYWdlIjoxLCJzdGFydHMiOnsiSlNUT1JCYXNpYyI6MH19
Dec 10
“Just take them and leave me alone” – powerful image by Raoof Haghighi
https://uploads.ovarit.com/df813ce2-9e2e-53b1-8364-993c184b6087.jpg
Nov 25
The Collected Apologies of Lawrence H. Summers, President of Harvard
great list by Laurence Hughes on McSweeney’s here:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-collected-apologies-of-lawrence-h-summers-president-of-harvard
Nov 21
“If you can’t trust me with a choice …
how can you trust me with a child?”
brilliant bumper sticker from The Onion
Oct 02
“The reason why men tell women to smile.”
Great post and comments here:
https://www.thefemaledatingstrategy.com/forum/cultural-misogyny/the-reason-why-men-tell-women-to-smile
Sep 29
“The Fragile Male” – interesting reading
Here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119278/
Sep 04
Inferior, Angela Saini
Just a few quotes and notes –
“… the perennial problem of childcare, which lifts women out of their jobs at precisely the moment that their male colleagues are putting in more hours and being promoted” (p6)—yeah, to avoid childcare
“It was also thought that merely having women around might disrupt the serious intellectual …
Aug 27
from Dale Spender’s Nattering on the Net — quotes and notes
According to 19th C feminist scholar Matilda Joslyn Gage, 9 million women were executed or burned for having knowledge—i.e., for being witches (p163)
Wow. Did not know it was that many.
“Had women ever contributed to the design of roads and vehicles, there is no doubt that the entire system would look very different. The …
Aug 09
Dawkins (and Monty Python) on the ‘human potential’ argument against abortion
“[T]he logical conclusion to the ‘human potential’ argument [against abortion] is that we potentially deprive a human soul of the gift of existence every time we fail to seize any opportunity for sexual intercourse. Every refusal of any offer of copulation by a fertile individual is, by this dopey ‘pro-life’ logic, tantamount to the murder …
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