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GingerAntics

GingerAntics

Joined February 2018

Just don‘t call me “he/him.” AuDHD Hot Mess ♾️❤️🧡💛🩵💙 Conversation Starter. Academic. Scholar. 🖖🏻 Shakespearean. Whovian. Spockian.
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For Real | Alexis Hall
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It‘s SO amusing that a book called “For Real” would have annotations that are just so… well… real. 🤷🏼‍♀️
#AlexisHall #ForReal #annotations #BonusMaterial #TooBritish

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For Real | Alexis Hall
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push the boat out, Hall. 🧡🧡🧡🤣😂🤣🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
#AlexisHall #ForReal #BonusMaterial #perfection #PushTheBoatOutHall #inlove

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For Real | Alexis Hall
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Okay. Seriously. How is this not perfection?
⭐️Also, ARH (anal retentive Hall) is now a whole mood and will be short hand for “I‘m being anal retentive… just like Alexis Hall, so at least we‘re having fun over here.”⭐️
#AlexisHall #ForReal #GreatestHumanBeingEver #ARH

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For Real | Alexis Hall
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So I‘ve been reading the bonus material in my all time favourite Alexis Hall book and my gods the snark is on point! 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻 So I went online trying to find a picture of this amazing human being, but all I found was not amazing snark and subversion brilliance on his/hers/their website! Still don‘t have a face to go with the brilliance, but I am in love.
#AlexisHall #ForReal #BonusMaterial #snark #brilliance #needmore

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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.
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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. 1d
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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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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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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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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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🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
#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. 21h
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 🤷🏼‍♀️ 4h
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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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I enjoyed The Tragedy of Heterosexuality so much yesterday, I decided to read this one today.
#JaneWard #NotGay #audiobook

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There were so many points in this book that were ah-ha moments, and then once I thought about them they shouldn‘t have been. It‘s obvious. We just don‘t think about them because this is what movies, fairytales, and society have sold us - especially women - from birth. This is a real discussion starter.
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GingerAntics If the conversations this book starts make you uncomfortable, it‘s time to evaluate why you‘re uncomfortable instead of writing this off as radical or feminist or woke. #JaneWard #TheTragedyOfHeterosexuality #audiobook #discussionstarter 2d
jewright I‘m listening to Jesus and John Wayne right now. I‘m wondering if this book has similar topics. 2d
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This seems so obvious, and yet it‘s just not true for A LOT of men. I‘m certainly not saying every man, but the loudest, most vocal, most powerful men certainly. Not to mention all the men who look up to those men as the ideal of manhood and masculinity.
#JaneWard #TheTragedyOfHeterosexuality #men #women #intowomen #forwomen #manhood #masculinity #simple

TheBookHippie A man attaches himself to woman - not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
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GingerAntics @TheBookHippie she was actually comparing heterosexual ideals to queer ones. That in heterosexual culture it‘s about what is most pleasurable to the man, not is pleasurable for the woman, ever. In queer culture it‘s how much pleasure a body can experience. Full stop. She was baffled by a survey where every straight man said sex was over when he came. She said “I can‘t imagine sex with my wife being over just because either of us came.” 🤣😂🤣 2d
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie basically, the whole books can be boiled down to “straight men think they are entitled to sex” and “heterosexuals, are you okay?” 2d
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics exactly. Men think sex is for them. That‘s it. Women are an object to achieve it whether they want it or not. 2d
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie yup! I loved this book. It was just a little snarky, just a little funny, but very poignant and important. 2d
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#JaneWard #TheTragedyOfHeterosexuality #men #women #queer #lovewomen

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Darklunarose That would make sense! 2d
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More marriage self help nonsense.
My knee jerk reaction: no wonder men need porn if that‘s what it takes to turn them on. 🙄🥃🥃
#JaneWard #TheTragedyOfHeterossxuality #YouHaveGotToBeKidding #ImNotLyingToYouToTurnYouOn #INeedAStiffDrink #MaleFragility

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NICK AT NIGHT NEVER SHOWED THAT!!!
WHAT THE ACTUAL 🤬ING 🤬?! I‘m glad I didn‘t ever get the complete series of I Love Lucy on DVD back when I wanted to. 🙄 🤯🤯🤯
#JaneWard #TheTragedyOfHeterosexuality #TheHoneymooners #ILoveLucy #INoLongerLoveLucy #RickyIsEvil

GingerAntics This book just ruined Who‘s the Boss, too. 🤦🏼‍♀️🥃🤯 2d
Butterfinger McClintock (John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara) was awful. The movie made it seem she fell back in love with him after he "spanked" her with a metal coal shovel(I don't know the name). My parents loved that movie, and I remember saying, not my husband. I also remember thinking-is this why my daddy knocks my mom around? Is this normal? We also watched the Honeymooners. 2d
GingerAntics @Butterfinger oh my god, I am so sorry! No little kid should ever have to ask those questions. It‘s truly disturbing what we put on television and let kids think is normal, or even just question the normalcy of. I swear, I hear there is a spanking scene in something and usually I‘m out. I just can‘t do it. Too much emotional and psychological crap of my own to even try to bring that into entertainment. 2d
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WHAT THE ACTUAL FLYING 🤬?!
Sadly, given the state of affairs between men and women these days, I think this has just become the quiet part we don‘t actually say out loud. “Men‘s latent cruelty in courtship and women‘s receptivity to pain and domination as core heterosexual impulses.”
#JaneWard #TheTragedyOfHeterosexuality #eugenics #men #women #disturbing #oddlytrue #stilltrue

GingerAntics The Five Love Languages is a continuation of this theme! I KNEW I hated that book. 2d
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GingerAntics @AlaSkaat I‘ll be honest, this shouldn‘t be as mind blowing to me as it was. It‘s so obvious, but it‘s not a thing we think about… because we are taught to NOT think about it. This is why men like women who don‘t think to begin with. 2d
AlaSkaat That‘s so interesting. Is this talking about actually liking women as people? It‘s so true that so many men who love women actually hate women. 2d
GingerAntics @AlaSkaat that is precisely what this book is talking about. 2d
GingerAntics @quietlycuriouskate yeah, when it‘s all laid out, it‘s really obvious and it‘s stunningly troubling. 2d
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AlaSkaat I don‘t know 1 relationship that‘s good. With all these people around me, not one has respect, care, mutual trust, friendship… none. And it‘s all normalised. Do you know how many times I complained about something within my relationship and got laughed at? I have every right to complain and they are real problems. This is saddening. 2d
GingerAntics @AlaSkaat same! I haven‘t been in another relationship since my first major one because I don‘t want that again. I‘m attracted to men, but I‘m not convinced that straight men are actually attracted to women. Pass. Hard pass. 2d
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How is anyone still saying this to little girls in 2025?! I mean, seriously, this wasn‘t healthy when we were kids, but people my age are now saying this to my generation‘s children! How about we stop this bull sh🤬t!
#JaneWard #TheTragedyOfHeterosexuality #BoysWillBeBoys #GenderPolitics #Outdated #StopTheMadness

AlaSkaat I hate this. Teach your children how to show love instead of allowing them to grow up and abuse women because they don‘t know how else to express it. (Not that they actually love and care for women, but they use the excuse of not knowing how to show their love) so dumb. 2d
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These are seriously legit points. I‘d be lying if I hadn‘t noticed these myself.
#JaneWard #TheTragedyOfHeterosexuality #ComplaintsAboutStraightCulture

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What straight folks can learn from queer folks (other than style tips - thanks Queer Eye!). Well, here we go.
#JaneWard #TheTragedyOfHeterosexuality #audiobook

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I wasn‘t really surpassed to find out just how much of Catherine Read Arnold Williams‘s 19th century book was. It was really obvious from the beginning. I loved that Kate Winkler Dawson brought in a document examiner. It was interesting to see the weird and random ties to the Borden family (and just how messed up that family apparently was - think Lizzy Borden and her alleged ax).
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GingerAntics I liked that Dawson pointed out that we need to focus on victims more than the criminals and avoid propaganda when choosing true crime, but unfortunately, this book is mostly about Catherine Read Arnold Williams and far more secondarily about Sarah Maria Cornell the actual victim. #KateWinklerDawson #TheSinnersAllBow #TrueCrime #History #audiobook #VictimBlaming 3d
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I feel like this is as true today as it was in the early 19th century.
#KateWinklerDawson #TheSinnersAllBow #audiobook #PredatoryPreachers #VictimBlaming

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@Hooked_on_books made me do this. It just sounds so interesting.
#KateWinklerDawsom #TheSinnersAllBow #audiobook

Hooked_on_books Woohoo! You won‘t be sorry. 3d
GingerAntics @Hooked_on_books I am loving this! 3d
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How is everyone‘s reading experience going? I greatly enjoyed the part discussing seeing without experiencing sight. I wonder what that is like.
#PeterGodfreySmith #OtherMinds #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety
@TheBookHippie @ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll @bnp

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This one was also hard to choose. I liked multiple nonfiction books this month.
#ReadingBracket #ReadingBracket2025
#BookBracket2025 #Nonfiction #OliverDarkshire #OnceUponATome

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Sinner | Sierra Simone
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This was a hard one to choose. I read a lot this month.
#ReadingBracket #ReadingBracket2025 #BookBracket2025 #SierraSimone #Sinner #fiction

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It took over a month to read the chapters on the final battle, this second time around. I knew where it was going, and I could only handle one chapter at a time. I still loved it. I have a better handle on what happened at the end, but of course, I still have a million questions I probably won‘t have answers to until the 5th book comes out. Two. More. Years. (to the 4th book) I‘m going to need a nap.
#RebeccaYarros #OnyxStorm

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It must be so trippy to see without experiencing seeing.
#PeterGodfreySmith #OtherMinds #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety

rwmg I might end up re-reading this from 2019 as my book club is reading what seems to be an octupus themed book for March. (edited) 4d
GingerAntics @rwmg were really enjoying it! 4d
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Ruthless Desires Epilogue | Elira Firethorn
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#FebruaryWrapUp
#StoryGraph I finally got out of my Onyx Storm hangover. I ended up reading more books in 28 days than I did in January. Go figure. Most of it was smut, but reading is reading. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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I was so excited when I realised this was a retelling of Hamlet (my favourite Shakespeare play). I was very disappointed almost immediately. The main character is 11, but his thought processes seem much younger. He throws around words like “fatso” because he‘s impatient with a bank teller, and his friends are stunningly and disturbingly misogynistic for prepubescent children. He repeats words over and over like a kindergartener.
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GingerAntics The kid who narrates is actually quite good as a voice actor, but even that couldn‘t save this. If I were his parents, I certainly wouldn‘t have been okay with him saying many of the things he said in the first 28% of the book. I literally cannot make myself continue. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 5d
GingerAntics It‘s disgusting and does a disservice to both Hamlet and Matt Haig‘s reputation. For an author that recently posted that he misses “intelligent masculinity. Not this dumb cage fighting brotocracy,” this is utterly despicable. #MattHaig #TheDeadFathersClub #audiobook 5d
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie this author‘s rating just went down with me. I have 2 other books by him, but I don‘t want to read them at the moment. 5d
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Really excited to take this one for a spin.
#MattHaig #TheDeadFathersClub #audiobook

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This is between a pick and a so-so for me, but manages to come down just this side of pick. This is a hard book to get through when our country is currently a flaming mess. Arendt also has some problematic views on race that are clearly due to when she was alive. One would hope, were she alive now, those views would be different.
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GingerAntics There is still some validity to her views on totalitarianism and her perspective of the last time hate ruled the world. Worth reading when in the right head space, but know some of this is going to anger you and even sound white supremacist in places. Stonebridge does a good job at calling out those points and adding her own updates to the ideas for today.
#LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld
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kspenmoll Perfect review!!!! 1w
GingerAntics @kspenmoll this one was a struggle for me. I almost DNF‘d a few times. 1w
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This is such a cool detail. It‘s also unsurprising. Someone spoke about and from a perspective he did not have, so he sought out that perspective. Plus, he reads. He reads voluntarily and happily. I‘m not sure the current resident of the Oval Office knows the difference between a stack of papers and a book. Both are to be ignored and are of no interest to him. Maybe he can identify the book as something to put his Diet Coke can on. 🙄

Bookwomble Diet Coke? I thought he drinks bleach to stave off the 'rona! 😄 1w
GingerAntics @Bookwomble that‘s just once a day, then he washes it down with Diet Coke! 🤣😂🤣 1w
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Oh really? No only have the former confederate states/the former traitor states been ignoring it since the founding of the nation, they are actively seeking to force their chosen ignorance upon the rest of us.
#LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld

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Sometimes, I feel like social media is the number one thing that is burning the world to the ground (socially of course).
#LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld

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This needs to be posted on every door, of every building, of every university in the United States immediately.
#LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld

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loved all of the philosophy. I loved the way Haig played with the many worlds interpretation. It‘s a little bit (a very little bit) like It‘s a Wonderful Life with the coolest library, but it‘s so much more than that with all the academics. I love the perspective shift from worthlessness to potential. This is almost Sci-fi philosophy, but I love both, so I really enjoyed this book.
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GingerAntics Carey Mulligan was amazing and really brought the whole thing to life. This would be such a great group read book, because it‘s such a conversation starter. I am so glad I decided to read this when I did. 1w
kspenmoll Do you know I never read this? Now I must!!!! 1w
GingerAntics @kspenmoll totally worth the read! It was so comforting, oddly. 1w
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I‘ve got to disagree with Arendt. There is not a new kind of evil, a special, radical kind of evil that started with the Nazis. Every human being is fully capable of such evil. It is our better nature that allows us to override any desire to be evil and choose to be good people. When one starts to believe that this evil can benefit one‘s better nature is when these atrocities happen.

GingerAntics These are not monsters. They are not special. These are humans that chose to do evil. #LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld #evil #humanity 1w
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This is concise and clear about the ways ideas are misrepresented in the Christian Bible. The book made clear again and again that the historical evidence that the New Testament was written a century or more after the events it depicts and not by the people they are attributed to; though, he never takes that step.
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GingerAntics He probably avoids that because he talks a lot about the Bible NOT being history and the need to stop reading and interpreting it as such. If you want to have a faith open to critical thinking or if you have realised in other ways that all the noise about the Bible and god is anything but holy, this is the book for you. If you believe in a literal translation of the Bible, this is not the book for you because it‘s just going to rile you up. 1w
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I LOVED IT!!! 1w
TheBookHippie It‘s so good. 😊 1w
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie it really is!!! It‘s actually refreshing! 1w
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As a historian, this is like day one, class one of every graduate program. If you have a REALLY good undergrad prof, they might mention it then, but mostly they are focused on getting you into grad school. Go figure.
In fact, I was taught these two points in the opposite directions. Who wrote it first, then who paid them to write it?
#JoelMHoffman #TheBibleDoesntSayThat #audiobook #MartinCullen #history #historiography #whopaidforit #whowroteit

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If you feel compelled to begin a debate about the literal nature of the Bible in response to the above quote that takes historical and cultural views into account, save your time and mine… just unfollow.
#JoelMHoffman #TheBibleDoesntSayThat #audiobook #oncologyreading #thebibleisnotliteral #thebibleisnothistory