“In the game of patriarchy, women are not the opposing team. They’re the ball.” Anita Sarkeesian
Category: feminism
Jun 03
This is what happens – new feminist novel by chris wind – review copies available
Here’s the blurb:
How is it that the girl who got the top marks in high school ends up, at fifty, scrubbing floors and cleaning toilets for minimum wage, living in a room above Vera’s Hairstyling, in a god-forsaken town called Powassan?
Feminist theorist Dale Spender wrote, in Women of Ideas and …
May 25
Why are cosmetics routinely sold in pharmacies?
That’s it. That’s my post. Any answers out there?
May 24
Brilliant bit from Rageagainstthemanchine
“Not to bring up Robert Jensen every three sentences, but he’s made a point that I find extremely salient when it comes to how porn affects women’s lives. If I have to go to court tomorrow, or I have to go discuss my career with my boss, or I have to work on a project …
May 09
Impact – review copies available!
Impact presents an extended confrontation between a sexual assault victim and her assailants, as part of an imagined slightly revised court process, in order to understand why they did what they did and, on that basis, to make a recommendation to the court regarding sentence. It does not go … as expected.
REVIEW COPIES …
Apr 30
Why more men than women will die of the COVID virus
Why more men than women will die of the COVID virus:
1. Cleanliness is a girl thing. Real men don’t wash their hands. (Certainly not several times a day.)
2. The home is the women’s cave. So unless it comes with an attached garage, real men aren’t going to stay there all day. (Certainly not …
Apr 01
The Frightening Cluelessness of PoliSci Students
“I was studying political science at the time, so I had never thought about social processes like misogyny and sexism.” What? What?
(from https://narratively.com/i-was-an-angry-mens-rights-activist-now-im-a-fierce-feminist/)
Mar 18
It Wasn’t Enough (new feminist novel) – REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE
Review copies of It Wasn’t Enough, a new novel by Peg Tittle, are now available! Please inquire: ptittle7@gmail.com
Here’s the blurb: What if one day, all of the women suddenly disappeared? Without what it is that women do, what it is that women are — what would happen?
The novel was inspired by a …
Mar 13
Among the things that don’t count …
[Bernadette Powell, a black woman from Ithaca, New York, is now serving a 15-year-to-life sentence … because in 1978 she shot and killed her ex-husband.]
[T]he Tompkins county prosecutor … argued … that [she] had no reason to fear bodily harm from her ex-husband because although the man admittedly had committed many violent acts against …
Mar 13
Great stuff from Stoltenberg
…[T] male-dominated gay liberation movement never really grasped how homophobia is rooted in the woman hating that is a fixture of male supremacy. Quite simply, the male homosexual is stigmatized because he is perceived to participate in the degraded status of the female …
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The system of male supremacy requires gender polarity—with real men …
Books by Peg Tittle
Writing as Jass Richards
Writing as Chris Wind
