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"I received this book as gift. I sometimes flip through it to a random page and read it as a fortune. I read a lot of new age, or “occult” genre books, and with most of them they can propose some pretty out there metaphors. If you’re looking for self-help that’s more concrete I would not recommend this book. It would come off as flakey.
But if you look at it as a horoscope or fortune cookie it’s kinda fun." — Jan 28, 2021 07:45PM
"I received this book as gift. I sometimes flip through it to a random page and read it as a fortune. I read a lot of new age, or “occult” genre books, and with most of them they can propose some pretty out there metaphors. If you’re looking for self-help that’s more concrete I would not recommend this book. It would come off as flakey.
But if you look at it as a horoscope or fortune cookie it’s kinda fun." — Jan 28, 2021 07:45PM
“The offender must be able to give something back. But criminals are most often poor people. They have nothing to give. The answers to this are many. It is correct that our prisons are by and large filled with poor people. We let the poor pay with the only commodity that is close to being equally distributed in society: time.”
― Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy
― Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy
“Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
“Statistically, the odds that any given rape was committed by a serial offender are around 90 percent," Lisak said. "The research is clear on this. The foremost issue for police and prosecutors should be that you have a predator out there. By reporting this rape, the victim is giving you an opportunity to put this guy away. If you decline to pursue the case because the victim was drunk, or had a history of promiscuity, or whatever, the offender is almost certainly going to keep raping other women. We need cops and prosecutors who get it that 'nice guys' like Frank are serious criminals.”
― Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
― Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
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