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TracyReadsBooks
Why We're Polarized | Ezra Klein
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Decided I wanted to do more reading to try and understand where—waves hands around—we find ourselves today. Klein‘s book is an eye-opener that examines, among other topics, the role of identity, the desire to be a winner (in politics like in sports), the psychology behind why people vote the way they do, media & the press, the difference between Democrats & Republicans and how to manage polarization going forward. A fascinating, informative read.

TheBookHippie I‘ll pick this up. Around here they vote for who the minister says 😵‍💫 and anything to put the libtard in their place😵‍💫. 1w
TracyReadsBooks @TheBookHippie both of those are discussed, the latter more than the former, in the book! 😠 My TBR pile is definitely growing after reading this one—he references a lot of books that sound really interesting. 1w
TheBookHippie @TracyReadsBooks I‘ve almost picked it up a few times, so I really need to! 1w
TracyReadsBooks @TheBookHippie I found it to be really thought provoking and an excellent overview of the variety of elements feeding into our polarization. Definitely recommend it. 1w
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GingerAntics
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Straight men, are you okay? Straight white men, are you specifically okay? This entire book is an ode to the idea that it‘s about damned time we abandon our insistence on a binary view of life, love, sexuality, attraction, and gender.
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

GingerAntics This book is also very clear on how the toxic masculinity that harms women actually turns on itself in hazing rituals, ultimately using that violence and domination over weaker members of the group to reiterate and perpetuate itself. There is nothing healthy going on here. No, men are not okay. Straight men are not okay. Straight white men are absolutely not okay. Sadly, they are the ones most fervently fighting to keep things this way. 1w
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GingerAntics
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Seriously, I feel like this entire book is an argument for abandoning the binary views we have of gender, sexuality, attraction, and life.
#JaneWard #NotGay #gender #sexuality #binary #biological #cultural #gay #straight

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GingerAntics
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So being friends with other men is gay, but this is less gay? Again, I‘m going to need the men to show their work on this, because the math is NOT mathing.
#JaneWard #NotGay #MaybeGay #friendship #mathnotmathing #gay

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GingerAntics
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Reasons given for the acceptable practice of initiating new men into the military using homosexual sex acts. I‘m really going to need them to show their work on that second one. The other two make no sense either, but that one is extra special.
#JaneWard #NotGay #Military #USMilitary #WTF #ShowYourWork

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GingerAntics
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Ward keeps using this concept of a sex terrorist to describe reasons a person may engage in a sex act in a way that is not in accordance with their orientation. Is this a real thing?
#JaneWard #NotGay #sexterrorist

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GingerAntics
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🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
#JaneWard #NotGay

RamsFan1963 If they sold gay tests at the drug store, I think a lot more men would discover they're bisexual than people imagine. 1w
GingerAntics @RamsFan1963 legit had the same thought…. Although the drugstore does sell Covid tests and there are still folks who think that isn‘t real, so 🤷🏼‍♀️ 1w
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GingerAntics
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Thank you, Victorian era! I‘m still waiting for a single positive thing you have added to our lives, even beyond sexuality.
#JaneWard #NotGay #normal #heterosexual #homosexual #NormalSexual #VictorianEra #Victorian #reproduction

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GingerAntics
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I enjoyed The Tragedy of Heterosexuality so much yesterday, I decided to read this one today.
#JaneWard #NotGay #audiobook