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"rereading as a read-aloud to partner who has only seen the movie. what the hell is the horrific fatphobic crap in the introduction? fictionalized William Goldman is a horrific beast to his son. ironically for a book about the reader skipping the bits that suck, I absolutely skipped over the gnarly gross comments about his son's weight. what the hell. unnecessary to the plot and really unkind." — Feb 05, 2026 03:53PM
"rereading as a read-aloud to partner who has only seen the movie. what the hell is the horrific fatphobic crap in the introduction? fictionalized William Goldman is a horrific beast to his son. ironically for a book about the reader skipping the bits that suck, I absolutely skipped over the gnarly gross comments about his son's weight. what the hell. unnecessary to the plot and really unkind." — Feb 05, 2026 03:53PM
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face.”
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“Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the civil rights movement turned it into one. Sex discrimination wasn’t a crisis until feminism turned it into one. Apartheid wasn’t a crisis until the anti-apartheid movement turned it into one.”
― This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
― This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
“Thus human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future. Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.”
― The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change
― The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change
“When the majority of jokes made at the expense of trans people center on "men wearing dresses" or "men who want their penises cut off" that is not transphobia - it is trans-misogyny. When the majority of violence and sexual assaults omitted against trans people is directed at trans women, that is not transphobia - it is trans-misogyny.”
― Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
― Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
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