Sep 23 2026
Great read! Some quotes and comments …
“He tosses the cap onto the floor.” p2
As soon as he takes a bottle from the garage fridge and tosses the cap onto the floor, I hated him. Is he going to pick up the cap later? Clean up after himself? Don’t think so. …
Sep 16 2026
We got so tired of hearing that. Men need sex. There were so many iterations, so many variations …
In 1943, Maslow, in his hierarchy of needs, included sex among the physiological needs that must be satisfied before anything else. Unfortunately, his theory, along with an unforgettable pyramid illustration, became accepted as fact, …
Sep 10 2026
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
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
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, …
Aug 29 2026
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 …
Jul 18 2026
“We don’t occupy their imaginations the way they occupy ours.” Black scientist about his white colleagues (from the movie “Black Cake”)
Yeah. Now imagine that ten-fold for a female scientist.
Jul 14 2026
Part I is a must-read.
Excerpts follow.
“Men seeking their own security attempt to construct strong male-bonded alliances, typically based on patrilineal (agnatic) relationships … [Women] biologically reproduce the group, providing brothers and sons for this male alliance. The fraternity’s dependence on women … leads to the necessity for men to control them.” p2 [This …
Jun 25 2026
“A guy on a bicycle was staring at her so intently he nearly got hit by a bus. ‘Watch out,’ she cried, but the sound was swallowed by the simultaneous blast of the bus driver’s horn. The biker swerved, and the bus just missed him. He slammed into a parked car and was thrown to …
Jun 18 2026
There’s a lot here and every bit is worth reading.
Better yet, just get the book. And read it. Every word.
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from blurb for Ford’s I Don’t
“why do so many women still believe that our value is intrinsically tied to being chosen by a man?”
“Ford explains …
