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AnneCecilie
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Pickpick

The title is pretty self explanatory in what its about.

I feel that I finally had some arguments if I ever where to get into a discussion with a pro-lifer. And that actually feels great.

For me gaslighting was a term that suddenly turned about and was everywhere. Now I feel that I finally understand what it is and how it‘s used

I‘m so glad #SheSaid made me aware of this book so I read it

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘m glad you liked it, or at least got some interesting things from it. Her other book Down Girl was very good too. (edited) 5h
Riveted_Reader_Melissa For gaslighting, I think I need to track down the original play now and read it. 5h
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DebinHawaii
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Pickpick

#Read2025

Finished today for #SheSaid March & it‘s one of those books you can‘t really like because it‘s so damn frustrating especially in our current world but it also an important read. I missed Manne‘s previous book Down Girl but I understand that this book builds & expands on it & focuses on male entitlement & how patriarchy “punishes women for not giving men the moral goods to which they are, by the terms of our social contract entitled.”⬇️

DebinHawaii … Published in 2020, the examples like the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, incel gun rampages, and the #MeToo movement are still relevant in 2025 since little has changed & we have even gone further backwards in some respects. Still reading this book, spreading the message & most importantly acting on it are the only ways to bring about change. 3d
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 3d
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid. Posting a bit later today. I hope you are all finishing up with the book and if not learning a lot, at least feeling less alone and “gas lighted” when you are in certain situations and being told it‘s normal, not a problem, etc.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Wow! The tags even posted without issues today! I need to post late more often 🤣 3d
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Bookwormjillk last week, I tried for literally hours. Logged out, back in, tried again. Let it sit after I hit enter, tried typing each in individually and then picking from the drop-down list of names. Anything I could think of….and nothing. I gave up after a few hours and just hoped you‘d find it by the tag. Today, copy & pasted the list in and it went right through and popped up as a comment immediately. 2 seconds 3d
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Litsy may be gaslighting me 😂 3d
DebinHawaii @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Hah! But how frustrating! I finished the book this morning. It was a good but also frustrating read. 3d
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @DebinHawaii I felt the same, but I also feel better knowing that I‘m not imagining the problems or the scope of the problems 3d
vlwelser I'm glad the tags worked. I'm ready (ish) to jump back in for the next book. I don't have the book yet but it's on hold at the library so forward progress is happening. 3d
AllDebooks I enjoyed this, despite its reiteration of well documented inequalities. Written well with some good insights 3d
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser sometimes any forward progress is good progress. Even if it‘s just a tiny bit 1d
staci.reads I thought the book finished strong. The chapter Unelectable- On the Entitlement to Power - was especially relevant after the last election. The part about the backlash against Klobachar after her perceived "disloyalty" to Al Franken was new information for me. I really liked her discussion of communality and the effect that expectation has on women in power. That hit home for me personally. 1d
vlwelser 🤗 1d
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @staci.reads there was a great footnote about Harris too, from the primaries…which was very relevant now too. 5h
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AllDebooks
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#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

I'm a day late, but I wanted to join in. The last few months have been awful. However, the last few days, I've started feeling so much better. 🤞I'm out of the cycle of constant asthma flare-ups and chest infections.
My 5 joys are
1) 🌞📚☕️🐞🦋🐦‍⬛🦉
2) The dawn chorus
3) Gloria
4) It's Mother's Day tomorrow, thinking about my beautiful mum, gone for 22 years but never forgotten.
5) My aunt's gorgeous yellow magnolia

AllDebooks Yesterday was the one year anniversary of my aunt's untimely death. Her magnolia that she gifted to me is about to come into bloom. 💔🌸💔 5d
Librarybelle ❤️❤️❤️ 5d
ShelleyBooksie Wonderful that you are starting to feel better ♡♡ 4d
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Deblovestoread Glad you are feeling better. Hope you have a lovely weekend. 4d
AnnCrystal Very nice that you're feeling better 💝💝💝💝💝🙏🏼. 4d
Bookwormjillk 💜💜💜 4d
BooksandCoffee4Me So sorry you‘ve been so sick. Praying you continue to recover and get well soon. 💛 4d
DebinHawaii I love your joys & I‘m so glad you are feeling better. 💛💛💛 Having been on that cycle of asthma flare-ups & chest & sinus stuff last year, I truly understand how awful & exhausting it is. Wishing you ongoing better health. 🙏🏼 4d
kspenmoll I can do relate to asthma, chest infections cycle. Hope your heath continues to improve.💜💜 2d
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AllDebooks
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Happy #Chatterday 🌞

It is a bloomin' gorgeous spring day. 🌞☕️🌞 I'm sitting in the garden with a coffee. And I actually feel really well today for the first time in months.

How is everyone today?

@Bookwormjillk @dabbe @Cuilin @kelli7990 @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @Catsandbooks

Bookwormjillk Happy Saturday! I'm so glad to hear you're feeling well. What a winter for you!

It's going to be a nice day here too. I'm doing some paperwork now, but planning on hitting a book sale in a bit then spending all the hours possible outside. I have a bunch of seeds I need to plant.
5d
AllDebooks @Bookwormjillk that sounds like my idea of a perfect day. Enjoy x 5d
Cuilin So glad you‘re having a good day!! 💚We‘re having a winter storm warning till noon tomorrow. 😣 My body is still adjusting to new meds. I‘m going to see David Sedaris Sunday night!! Today will be mostly an indoor day. 📖 5d
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Cuilin @Bookwormjillk Wishing and hoping for spring weather here in New England. Enjoy! 5d
Bookwormjillk @Cuilin hope it comes soon! We seem to have gone straight from winter to summer here. 5d
AnnCrystal Glad you're feeling better 🙏🏼💝. 4d
TheBookHippie @Cuilin Hope your body adapts soon!! It‘s winter here through April at least! 4d
TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk have fun!!! 📚📚📚 4d
TheBookHippie I am achy today but I‘ve pushed a lot this week to be able to do things I want to do. Just tea and books! Spring arrives mid May here if we‘re lucky! 4d
TheBookHippie Glad you‘re finally having a good day!!! Yay!! 4d
quietlycuriouskate So glad you are feeling better! Mr K and I had a (necessary) fight, which turned into a deep conversation followed by a walk to the library. On balance it's good, but I'm feeling rather out of sorts ‘cause I hate it when my plans are derailed without warning. 4d
dabbe Glad you're feeling good! 🤩 Pippa had a seizure yesterday, so we're staying in today and taking it easy. She usually needs a day off to recuperate, so books and dog cuddles! Hope everyone is having a lovely day. 🩵💙🩵 4d
AllDebooks @Cuilin Oh wow, #fangirling Let us know what he was like 😀 4d
AllDebooks @AnnCrystal thank you x 4d
AllDebooks @TheBookHippie thank you. Make sure you're well rested. x 4d
AllDebooks @quietlycuriouskate oh dear. Sometimes, it is necessary to clear the air and reach a resolution. I hope the rest of your day came good. X 4d
AllDebooks @dabbe oh no, poor Pippa. Hope she's recovering and you're both making the best of a slow day x 4d
BooksandCoffee4Me I love that phrase: “A bloomin‘ gorgeous spring day” 💛 4d
TheBookHippie @dabbe awe poor pup! 4d
dabbe @AllDebooks TY! 🩵💙🩵 4d
dabbe @TheBookHippie She is such a trooper! 🩵💙🩵 4d
DebinHawaii So glad you are feeling well today! 💜 I‘m at the coffee shop for a bit catching up on reading & cards & relaxing after a busy week. Planning for a mellow weekend. 4d
DebinHawaii @Cuilin I love David Sedaris! @dabbe I hope Pippa recuperates well! 💜 4d
dabbe @DebinHawaii She's resting well today. Poor girl takes 24 pills a day to keep her epilepsy in check, and she still has at least one seizure a month. She's a brave girl. 🖤🐾🖤 4d
AllDebooks @BooksandCoffee4Me ❤️🌸❤️ 3d
AllDebooks @DebinHawaii I hope you had a restful weekend x 3d
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid!

Did you make it through? Such a tough read right now, but also a really timely one…. 😬

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staci.reads
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I finished this one up last weekend before my Libby loan expired. It's only my 2nd audiobook ever, and I learned nonfiction isn't going to work for me without a print copy. Keeping in mind that the mode probably affected my opinion of the book, I found this was good, but not great. The topics for each chapter are so very important, but I struggled to be engaged. It could also be that I'm just weary of intolerance and hate right now ⬇️

staci.reads and feel the temptation to bury my head in the sand. I won't. Stakes are too high. But, man. These reads are harder than they used to be 😔#Shesaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa 2w
kspenmoll I can only do fiction on audiobooks! 2w
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @staci.reads I understand, the next 4 years (and hopefully not more) are going it be tough, and I feel it in my non-fiction reading already after 2 months 🫠 1w
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @kspenmoll for me it is totally narrator dependent. 😂 1w
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Melismatic
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My #Feminist perspective results. 💪🏻💖 Thanks for the link @Catsandbooks ! #riseupreads

Catsandbooks 👏🏼🎉✊🏼🔥❤️ 2w
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MaggieCarr
Herland: Easyread Comfort Edition | Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1915 book Herland is a thought-provoking work of utopian fiction and a time capsule of early twentieth-century feminism. On the eve of the First World War, sociology student Vandyck Jennings goes on an expedition with two of his friends to search for a society rumored to consist only of women. On the way to what they will name "Herland," Van and his friends ponder the type of women they hope or expect to see when they...

MaggieCarr ...get there... but they find no fantasies when they arrive. Herland is an all-female, community-driven utopia. Van and his friends are skeptical of a society that doesn't even need men to procreate, but women and girls who live there have all been raised in a world entirely removed from the patriarchy of the wider world. To them, Herland is a paradise; there are no wars, no conflicts, and no oppressive concepts of gender. These young men... 2w
MaggieCarr ... however, are not easily brought into the fold. During their time in Herland, Van and his friends must decide whether they will remain entrenched in their own views of women and society, or if they will open their minds to a way of living, they could scarcely have ever imagined. 2w
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Singout
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There are evidently many men who feel entitled to regulate pregnant bodies without having the remotest idea about, or interest in learning, how they work. And there are evidently some women who are prepared to paint others as heartless for balking at these attempts to police and enforce their pregnancies. #SheSaid

TheBookHippie It‘s so infuriating. 2w
Singout Yes. I‘m thinking of a straight male friend I knew long ago who felt that abortion was morally wrong, but nonetheless accompanied a friend to get one because it was her body and therefore her choice. 2w
BarbaraBB All those men marching and no woman to be seen. It‘s disgusting 2w
Singout Confession: I sought out such a picture because that was the point of the quote… there are lots of photos as well of women protesting abortion. 2w
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