Vicki Duncan

“It seems odd to me that schools don’t teach you how to deal with feeling sad; they teach you trigonometry and how to measure a corner using algebra, but seldom how to get yourself out of one.”
― Tom Allen, No Shame

“If a female student says no to an offer of sex or visiting a stranger’s apartment, it’s not automatically a reflection of low libido, but an assessment of danger. Males are bigger and stronger than females; in scientific terms, humans have a body-size dimorphism of around 1.1 in the male’s favour. This isn’t accidental, it’s the result of male competition. In species where males compete for females the strongest are more likely to win and share their big genes with the next generation. This worldwide physical advantage has historically been used to justify the superiority of men, justify why they should be respected and obeyed, and paid more in virtually all vocations.* But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.”
― Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money