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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women | Kate Manne

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

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women | Kate Manne

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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 6d

kspenmoll I can only do fiction on audiobooks! 6d

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 🫠 2d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @kspenmoll for me it is totally narrator dependent. 😂 2d

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Melismatic

Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause | Naomi Watts

My #Feminist perspective results. 💪🏻💖 Thanks for the link @Catsandbooks ! #riseupreads

Catsandbooks 👏🏼🎉✊🏼🔥❤️ 6d

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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... 7d

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. 7d

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Singout

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women | Kate Manne

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. 1w

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. 1w

BarbaraBB All those men marching and no woman to be seen. It‘s disgusting 1w

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. 1w

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MaggieCarr

Herland: Easyread Comfort Edition | Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Herland keeps showing up on feminist book lists I'm trying to read through. Noticed it's book #2 in a trilogy. But book #1 is rarely mentioned. Do I need to read the first to understand what is happening in Herland?

ChaoticMissAdventures I keep seeing it too and never realized it was a series! 1w

MaggieCarr @ChaoticMissAdventures maybe someone can help us! 1w

Lauranahe I didn‘t realize that either! 1w

Bookwomble You can read it standalone. Its feminist credentials are era specific, so expect some 😬 moments along with the ❤️ 1w

MaggieCarr @Bookwomble yes, gritting my teeth! 1w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women | Kate Manne

Hello #SheSaid. I hope this week has treated you well.

I know quite a few of you were running behind starting and/or reading this one, so just stop into the comments as you finish each section. This discussion is for chapters 5 & 6.

AnneCecilie This book is making me so angry. And I can‘t imagine reading this and not get angry. That whole abortion chapter 🤯 Hopefully, if I ever meet a pro-lifer, I‘ll now have arguments against their views 1w

Singout I‘m finally caught up on a #SheSaid book! Yes, this made me angry too: the story in chapter 5 about the pregnant Black woman whose health needs were completely ignored and denied was gut wrenching. And, yes, the abortion chapter 😬. Recommended, if you can access it outside Canada, is an amazing book I read last year called “The Abortion Caravan,” about a group of women who went from the Pacific coast to Ottawa in 1970 to demand legal abortions. 6d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Singout I feel like we are returning to that 2d

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AnneCecilie

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women | Kate Manne

Another case that support that pro-lifers isn‘t about pro-life

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Sace And of course it was Alabama. Sometimes I hate it here. 1w

Chrissyreadit 100% 1w

sarahbarnes 🤬🤬🤬 1w

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AnneCecilie

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women | Kate Manne

Kate Manne in chapter 6 on why the pro-life movement isn‘t about pro-life

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TheBookHippie There is nothing about life in their stance. Nothing. 1w

AnneCecilie @TheBookHippie No, but it‘s to nice get the confirmation. But most importantly, I love that she gives me arguments I can use if I ever where to meet one. They aren‘t that big in Norway. 1w

quietlycuriouskate @AnneCecilie @TheBookHippie Yep, definite odour of mendacity and hypocrisy there! 😠 1w

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Sace And Governor Meemaw didn‘t care about the hypocrisy. 1w

TheBookHippie @AnneCecilie my favorite book on this is

Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

TheBookHippie @quietlycuriouskate 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 1w

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ncsufoxes

The Bleeding Heart: A Novel | Marilyn French

This. Every. Freakin. Day. This is how I feel every day. #ranttime

Ruthiella 👍👍👍 1w

AmyG I am woke if the opposite means not feeding hungry children, hatred for immigrants, the LGBTQ community, people of color, taking away medicaid from people who need it, not funding charities overseas, not funding education ETC ETC ETC 1w

Soscha Reading builds empathy, being able to see yourself as an other in different lives, different worlds, different cultures. If you‘ve ever wondered why you‘re not likely to find a MAGA mindset among book readers. It is more than intelligence (though something to be said there too) it‘s EMPATHY. 1w

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ncsufoxes @Soscha a friend of mine reposted one of Heather Cox Richardson‘s daily post. My MIL wrote “that‘s too long to read.” (If you guessed it she‘s a maga). I of course had to post something snarky in response to her saying these daily postings give me hope & that knowledge is power. She is a person that doesn‘t read, she watches a certain channel all day. I told my husband the other day I‘m so happy that he is nothing like his parents. He said I got 1w

ncsufoxes An education, I keep learning. My husband has his PhD, I have a MS, our house is full of books. My mil is stuck in her old thinking & she doesn‘t want to move beyond. I partially feel bad for her as an empath but I also think you need to unlearn that sh@t. My mom is the same age & she‘s worked hard to learn more about things she didn‘t know about. But then again I grew up in a house full of books. My mom‘s parents were immigrants but she said they 1w

ncsufoxes always had books. Books & education is key, which is why they want to continue to destroy both. 1w

ncsufoxes @AmyG I feel the same way. Call me woke, call me a bleeding heart liberal, call me empathetic…I‘m not offended, all it means is I care about other people. I don‘t understand how people can be rejoicing over people starving, homeless, losing healthcare. It‘s beyond comprehension. It hurts knowing that there are people that just don‘t care. 1w

MittenGirlPeach @AmyG this all day! 🧡🧡🧡 1w

MittenGirlPeach Perfectly put! 1w

AmyG @ncsufoxes I truly believe fear is a driving factor in what makes many older people Maga. The world is changing and they don‘t understand. Fox perpetuates the fear….add hatred of certain groups of people. Some would rather see the people they hate “lose”….than themselves “win”. The. Add some other reasons. I swear….we are in a Stephen King novel. 😩 (edited) 1w

AmyG Thanks @MittenGirlPeach 👊🏻 1w

ncsufoxes @AmyG totally. My mom was telling me about one of her maga friends talking about trans athletes (my mom is anti maga). I kid you not a few days later my mil repeats the same line word for word to my husband (my mil is maga & loves faux news). My husband told her, “our kids have all gone to school with trans kids & they‘re just fine.” She didn‘t know how to respond. Fear, miseducation, repeating lies & stereotypes to the under educated are all what 1w

ncsufoxes continue this mess. My mil lives in a fancy neighborhood but watches anyone who comes in her house (out the door or on the ring camera) because she‘s been convinced by the news that people are coming to rob her daily. She is afraid to unlearn anything from her past. My oldest went toe to toe with her over the summer about her “views,” she shut down & told him he was just wrong. She doesn‘t want to engage in any conversation. She twists her ideas 1w

ncsufoxes to fit whatever narrative she wants it to fit into. She literally doesn‘t understand how this administration is affecting anyone on our house. She just sticks her head in the sand. I really think a lot of this is going to end when there is boots to the ground, going door to door to talk to people. Education is key & Civics class (edited) 1w

Susanita I went to lunch today with my husband and another couple. When they started in on all their conservative BS I just sat and read Litsy. I know there‘s no point in arguing. 1w

Chrissyreadit same. 1w

Chrissyreadit @AmyG I agree it is fear based for many but the unwillingness to learn and have accurate information presented is making it harder and harder for me to be engaged with them. 1w

AmyG @Chrissyreadit @Susanita I agree. How can you engage with people who don‘t share the same facts, the same values? Like talking to a wall. (edited) 1w

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