“To sincerely adopt the psychology of tokenism, you have to sell your own community out. That‘s the dark underbelly of the thing. Instead of blaming institutions rules and social attitudes of those around you for the absence of other people like you, you blame your own community.”
💯💯💯💯
also: I don‘t know why the picture is red.
‘Tis the season of reading all the short books to improve the year‘s reading stats.
The older I get the more I realize how much of my own culture has been lost to time in the name of assimilation and the search for safety.
pick10/10.
Can someone tell Traister to publish an updated edition? I really want her take on the country six years later. Maybe she‘ll wait for the mid term elections?
Please teach me about my anger.
From the “pay what you wish” cart at the library. Going to give it to my dad.
I really like “Such A Fun Age”. I hope I really like this one too. But the current 67% rating has me nervous.
I‘m also assuming that stories will never take place during 2020 again. Or at least for a long while.
IYKYK
I decided that I should own more of the women‘s studies books that I am reading so I can *gasp* write in them.
But I‘m going to return “who‘s afraid of gender” because I think I can find it used and I‘ll feel better writing in a preloved copy.
Could you ever write in a book?
pickA+
Hard to return this one to the library. Even though we‘ve had it for months.
As of page 147: I do not like Cameron at all. But I‘ll finish the book anyway.
Trying to convince the bigger bookworm that she can read this book.
Let‘s see how I do. 🤞🤞
I‘m ready to be done with this book. It‘s literally too big.
Now my TBR:
Here‘re the issues:
1) 2024 is about alternating fiction and nonfiction
2) I have a lot of books out from the library. Including a lot that have a lot of holds.
3) I‘m going on vacation should I focus on finishing the enormous book?
Which issue to do I prioritize with my next book selection??! HELP!!
“Cooking “ dinner aka hiding from the tiny bookworms.
I can‘t resist an early novel especially not one written by a French woman!
Feel free to like or comment on my accomplishment.
🤓😋🤪😜😝🤓😋🤪
I‘m in the middle of three books. It‘s safe to say I‘m in a mid-summer reading slump.
“Between religion and knowledge, he said, one must choose knowledge.
What a preposterous thing for anyone who knows anything about Jewish history to say, one comment read.”
Hilarious.
Laughing out loud funny!
And just as many on my TBR from this list.
Just three TBR piles randomly stacked.
What should I read next?
Two treatises on women‘s equality from hundreds is years ago?!??! Don‘t mind if I do!
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Merits of Women- 1590
The Woman as Good as the Man - 1677
I don‘t know if I‘ll read them. But at least I know I can.
“When perhaps the matter is that liberals have a despondency problem: fluent in the language of grievance and bumbling in the language of repair.”
💯💯💯
I couldn‘t find these words for myself, that‘s why I read.
“…Competition breeds choice and choice makes exploration difficult.”
💯💯💯
pickThis book was so interesting.
It took a lot more brain power for me to read than I was expecting. I tend to get lost in “theory” and had to reread a lot to make sure I was understanding.
I hereby allow you to skip whole chapters if you‘re not into the subject. “Nurse” and “customs and tyranny” were excellent.
I love the work “matrix” and everything it has and does mean.
A “Team” as we know it comes from the word “teem” Which used to refer to fertility or a family‘s offspring. ❤️❤️❤️
Pg 115
Ah yes. 1923 NYC. Talking about Jews as foreign and overly sexual.
On the next page the author refers to the same character as “oriental.”
Classic racism.
There is nothing new in the world.
“Even downtown we got differences. Let me and the landlords wife go to the butcher store for meat. For who will the butcher pick out the fattest piece of meat? For me, who bargains herself every penny, or the landlords wife that pays him over any price he asks?”
Unintended bias is everywhere. Even in 1923.
I can‘t remember ever seeing “hare-brained” written before.
I thought it was hair-brained!
Is there such a thing a “moral courage”?
“In the end moral and political truths have to be shown on the body…‘
‘… [that] comes quite close to saying that the willingness to suffer proves the rightness of the belief. But it doesn‘t”.
Honestly, what were the freaking odds of finding this book.
It has no reviews on Litsy. It isn‘t mentioned in any of the other “also by this author.”
But there it was on a to be shelved used books trolley.
I‘m so excited. Talk about beshert!
“…we are not being straight with ourselves about what we want women in politics for.”
“…I do not want to complain about childcare and the rest getting a fair airing [in legislation]. But I am not sure such things should be perceived as ‘women‘s issues‘”
pickI loved the “too queer” chapter on Caitlyn Jenner. Petersen‘s discussion about “passing” as a trans person gave my language for my own complicated feelings on gender, sex and femininity.
pickThis book is so good. All I want to do is sit and bed and read it. I‘m so tired. But…must…carry…on…
I will be buying the next used copy I find.
