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"Have to pause here as it's due back at the library - someone's reserved it so I can't renew. I've got a couple of Audible credits so might switch to the audiobook..." Aug 26, 2022 10:46AM

 
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“In Britain, Prime Minister William Gladstone (1809–98) opposed suffrage because to involve women in politics would be, he said, ‘to trespass upon the delicacy, the purity, the refinement, the elevation of their nature’.”
Jack Holland, A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice

Caitlin Moran
“I couldn’t think of any book, play, TV show, or movie that basically tells the story of how boy-children become men. What “being a man” is, in its ostensibly mundane but actually momentous detail: how to shed your child-body and become an adult; how to negotiate the white-water rapids of sexual desire; how to self-soothe your sadness and anger; how to cope with defeat and loss; how to be a father; how to love; how to age. How to understand how and why the world responds to you, simply because you are a boy, or a man. How to gain the kind of confidence and happiness that not only make you confident and happy, but everyone that you love, too. In short, how to be a well-adjusted, average,”
Caitlin Moran, What About Men?: A Feminist Answers the Question – A Provocative Debate on Masculinity and Gender

“He knows he is only being asked to be respectful, and he knows people just want to turn up to work and do their job and not be reminded every five minutes of what they look like. Douglas knows they are right and he is wrong. He doesn't miss the good old days, he misses his good old days. He doesn't suppose they were good for most people.

But to really admit that to himself would be to admit to a lifetime of wearing his comfortable blinkers.”
Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

Carol  Anderson
“The whittling down of racism to sheet-wearing goons allowed a cloud of racial innocence to cover many whites who, although “resentful of black progress” and determined to ensure that racial inequality remained untouched, could see and project themselves as the “kind of upstanding white citizen[s]” who were “positively outraged at the tactics of the Ku Klux Klan.”
Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Carol  Anderson
“According to Human Rights Watch, “the proportion of blacks in prison populations exceeds the proportion among state residents in every single state.”
Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

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