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loudrats · 4 months

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Loud Rats Book Club 2023

This year the rats became literate!

We suggested a number of books each month and then voted on one to read (somehow Fish managed to read all 12 of them… wild!). The ones in red are the winners, but there are some other really good books in there.

Hopefully you can find your next favourite read below! :)

January

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy

Fledgling by Octavia Butler

Pirates and Prejudice by Kara Louise

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

February

Adua by Igiaba Scego

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

March

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Humans by Matt Haig

Cane by Jean Toomer

Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (#1 Broken Earth Trilogy)

Young Mungo by Douglas Stewart

April

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrel

Dubliners by James Joyce

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

May

Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

June

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill

Swimming in the dark by Tomasz Jędrowski

Girls like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 17 by Jeff Kinney

Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

July

Kid Youtuber 9: Everything is Fine by Marcus Emerson, Noah Child

Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella

Hit Parade Of Tears by Izumi Suzuki

When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book by Naja Marie Aidt

Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

Mapping the Interior by Stephan Graham Jones

August

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Small Game by Blair Braverman

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi

September

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

October

Linghun by Ai Jiang

Eyes Guts Throat Bones by Moira Fowley-Doyle

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley

Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašić

Kindred by Octavia Butler

November

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Life For Sale by Yukio Mishima

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Liberation Day by George Saunders

Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

December

Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

#loud rats #book club #to be clear the ones who won weren’t the BEST choice we just love democracy here

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t0xicp0sitivity · 6 months

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day 3 of "she would not fucking say that" valerie winterson edition

#rambling #max payne #the more i scroll through the mp tags the more confused disappointment i feel since aw2

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wholesomeobsessive · 3 years

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Books of 2020

New

The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin

The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

Collapse by Jared Diamond

Antisocial by Andrew Marantz

She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

Longitude by Dava Sobel

Selfie by Will Storr

Origins by Lewis Dartnell

Melmoth by Sarah Perry

How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford

How the World Thinks by Julian Baggini

Hard Pushed by Leah Hazard

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths

The House at Sea’s End by Elly Griffiths

Down Under by Bill Bryson

Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy

A Disastrous History of the World by John Withington

Story by Robert McKee

The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel

SPQR by Mary Beard

The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths

The End Is Always Near by Dan Carlin

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson

The Year 1000 by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger

The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Transcription by Kate Atkinson

A Brief History of the Anglo Saxons by Geoffrey Hindley

High Rise by J. G. Ballard

The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray

Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne Du Maurier

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson

12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson

I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara

Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier

Zucked by Roger McNamee

The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths

Sphere by Michael Crichton

The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths

The Revenge of the Baby-sat by Bill Watterson

Straw Dogs by John Gray

The Dark Net by Jamie Bartlett

Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

The Reservoir Tapes by Jon McGregor

Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill

The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff

Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell

The People vs Tech by Jamie Bartlett

The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell

Intellectuals and Race by Thomas Sowell

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue by John McWhorter

Is Reality Optional? by Thomas Sowell

Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose

Sex and Punishment by Eric Berkowitz

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray

Skellig by David Almond

Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell

Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell

The Book of Humans by Adam Rutherford

Her body and other stories by Carmen Maria Muchado

The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths

The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths

The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths

The History of England: Foundation by Peter Ackroyd

The Dark Angel by Elly Griffiths

The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths

The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths

The Hollow Crown by Dan Jones

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

Old

Centuries of Change by Ian Mortimer

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Raking the Ashes by Anne Fine (May)

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (December)

The Great Courses

Medieval Myths and Mysteries by Dorsey Armstrong (April)

An Introduction to Infectious Diseases by Barry C. Fox

Turning Points in Medieval History by Dorsey Armstrong

Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories by Michael Stermer (August)

History’s Greatest Voyages of Exploration by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

#wholesome reads stuff #book lists

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intimatum · 5 years

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intertextuality

desire / eating disorder / hunger: «to be the girl who lunges at people−wants to eat them» (letissier) / «a way to take all hungers and boil them down to their essence–one appetite to manage–just one» (knapp)

trauma / trauma theory / visceralities of trauma

writers

ada limón, adrienne rich, agnès varda, alana massey, alejandra pizarnik, alice notley, ana božičević, anaïs nin, andrea dworkin, andrew solomon, angela carter, angélica freitas, angélica liddell, ann cvetkovich, anna akhmatova, anna gien, anne boyer, anne carson, anne sexton, anne waldman, antonella anedda, aracelis girmay, ariana reines, audre lorde, aurora linnea

barbara ehrenreich, bell hooks, bessel van der kolk

carmen maria machado, caroline knapp, carrie lorig, cat marnell, catharine mackinnon, catherynne m. valente, cathy caruth, césar vallejo, chris kraus, christa wolf, clarice lispector, claudia rankine, czesław miłosz

daniel borzutzky, daphne du maurier, daphne gottlieb, david foster wallace, david wojnarowicz, dawn lundy martin, deirdre english, denise levertov, detlev claussen, dodie bellamy, don paterson, donna tartt, dora gabe, dorothea lasky, durs grünbein

édouard levé, eike geisel, eileen myles, elaine kahn, elena ferrante, elisabeth rank, elyn r. saks, emily dickinson, erica jong, esther perel, etty hillesum, eve kosofsky sedgwick

fanny howe, félix guattari, fernando pessoa, fiona duncan, frank bidart, franz kafka

gabriele schwab, gail dines, georg büchner, georges bataille, gertrude stein, gilles deleuze, gillian flynn, gretchen felker-martin

hannah arendt, hannah black, heather christle, heather o'neill, heiner müller, hélène cixous, héloïse letissier, henryk m. broder, herbert hindringer, herbert marcuse

ingeborg bachmann, iris murdoch

jacques derrida, jacques lacan, jade sharma, jamaica kincaid, jean améry, jean baudrillard, jean rhys, jeanann verlee, jeanette winterson, jenny slatman, jenny zhang, jerold j. kreisman, jess zimmerman, jia tolentino, joachim bruhn, joan didion, joanna russ, joanna walsh, johanna hedva, john berger, jörg fauser, joy harjo, joyce carol oates, judith butler, judith herman, julia kristeva, june jordan, junot díaz

karen barad, kate zambreno, katherine mansfield, kathrin weßling, kathy acker, katy waldman, kay redfield jamison, kim addonizio

lacy m. johnson, larissa pham, lauren berlant, le comité invisible, leslie jamison, lidia yuknavitch, linda gregg, lisa diedrich, louise glück, luce irigaray, lynn melnick

maggie nelson, margaret atwood, marguerite duras, marie howe, marina tsvetaeva, mark fisher, martha gellhorn, mary karr, mary oliver, mary ruefle, marya hornbacher, max horkheimer, melissa broder, michael ondaatje, michel foucault, miranda july, miya tokumitsu, monique wittig, muriel rukeyser

naomi wolf, natalie eilbert, natasha lennard, nelly arcan

ocean vuong, olivia laing, ottessa moshfegh

paisley rekdal, patricia lockwood, paul b. preciado, paul celan, peggy phelan

rachel aviv, rainald goetz, rainer maria rilke, rebecca solnit, richard moskovitz, richard siken, robert jensen, roland barthes, ronald d. laing

sady doyle, sally rooney, salma deera, samuel beckett, samuel salzborn, sandra cisneros, sara ahmed, sara sutterlin, sarah kane, sarah manguso, scherezade siobhan, sean bonney, sheila jeffreys, shoshana felman, shulamith firestone, sibylle berg, silvia federici, simone de beauvoir, simone weil, siri hustvedt, solmaz sharif, sophinette becker, soraya chemaly, stephan grigat, susan bordo, susan sontag, suzanne scanlon, sylvia plath

theodor w. adorno, thomas brasch, tiqqun, toni morrison

ursula k. le guin

valerie solanas, virginia l. blum, virginia woolf, virginie despentes

walter benjamin, wisława szymborska, wolfgang herrndorf, wolfgang pohrt

zadie smith, zan romanoff, zoë lianne, zora neale hurston

#tags

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bookofmirth · 5 years

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more 2019 book releases

A mix of YA, adult, fiction, non-fiction, literary, fantasy, etc. In order by release date (in the US).

Valerie, Sara Stridsberg (Aug. 6th, adult literary/historical)*

House of Salt and Sorrows, Erin A. Craig (Aug. 6th, YA fantasy-ish)

The Dragon Republic, R. F. Kuang (Aug. 6th, adult fantasy)

100 Days of Sunlight, Abbie Emmons (Aug. 6th, YA contemporary)

Inland, Téa Obreht (Aug. 13th, adult literary/fabulist)*

Quichotte, Salman Rushdie (Aug. 29th, adult literary/fabulist)*

Tunnel of Bones, Victoria Schwab (Sept. 3rd, middle grade creepy)

Well Met, Jen DeLuca (Sept. 3rd, adult romance)

Darkdawn, Jay Kristoff (Sept. 3rd, YA fantasy lol jk it’s adult)

Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, (Sept. 3rd, adult fantasy)

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, Caitlin Doughty (Sept. 10th, nonfiction)

A Choir of Lies, Alexandra Rowland (Sept. 10th, adult fantasy)

Pet, Akwaeke Emezi (Sept. 10th, YA, probs genre-defying)*

The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (Sept. 10th, adult dystopian)

Ducks, Newburyport, Lucy Ellman (Sept. 10th, adult literary)

Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays, Leslie Jamison (Sept. 10, nonfiction)*

Frankissstein, Jeannette Winterson (Oct. 1st, adult literary retelling)*

The Butterfly Girl, Rene Denfeld (Oct. 1st, adult mystery)

The Crier’s War, Nina Varela (Oct. 1st, YA fantasy)

The Good Luck Girls, Charlotte Nicole Davis (Oct. 1st, YA dystopian)*

The Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Oct. 1st, adult mystery?)

The Furies, Katie Lowe (Oct. 8th, YA contemporary witches)*

The Beautiful, Renee Ahdieh (Oct. 8th, YA fantasy)

The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern (Nov. 5th, adult literary fantasy?)

Girls of Storm and Shadow, Natasha Ngan (Nov. 5th, YA fantasy)

Call Down the Hawk, Maggie Stiefvater (Nov. 5th, YA fantasy-ish)

The Queen of Nothing, Holly Black (Nov. 19th, YA fantasy)

#booklr #bookblr #reading #new releases #I needed to organize these for my sanity #ignore the asterisks #that means I have a copy already

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aridara · 6 years

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Verifying a list of “hateful feminist quotes”. (From S to Z + groups and anonymous individuals)

Final part of my rebuttal at all those lists that are supposed to show how feminism is evil, but in practice shows how anti-feminists rely on an extremely inaccurate (and, in some parts, deliberately lying) list.

"Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated."

Margaret Sanger

False.

"The most merciful thing a family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it."

Margaret Sanger, founder of planned parenthood

True, but extremely edited; not hateful. I’ve bolded the parts that anti-feminists didn't bother to include in the list:

"Thus we see that the second and third children have a very good chance to live through the first year. Children arriving later have less and less chance, until the twelfth has hardly any chance at all to live twelve months."

"This does not complete the case, however, for those who care to go farther into the subject will find that many of those who live for a year die before they reach the age of five."

"Many, perhaps, will think it idle to go farther in demonstrating the immorality of large families, but since there is still an abundance of proof at hand, it may be offered for the sake of those who find difficulty in adjusting old-fashioned ideas to the facts. The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. The same factors which create the terrible infant mortality rate, and which swell the death rate of children between the ages of one and five, operate even more extensively to lower the health rate of the surviving members."

(Yeah, anti-feminists cut out a LOT.)

Also: she was talking about using birth control to deal with unwanted pregnancies. Not about using infanticide to kill already-born children.

“I do want to be able to explain to a 9-year-old boy in terms he will understand why I think it’s OK for girls to wear shirts that revel in their superiority over boys.”

– Treena Shapiro

Unverifiable.

“In general, I support a girl’s right to offend any member of the opposite sex who happens to cross her path. In fact, I’d much rather see a little girl wearing a shirt that mocks boys than one that turns them on.”

– Treena Shapiro

Also unverifiable. In fact, I think it's not even hateful at all: it points out a double standard where there's a lot of men's shirts that mock women, while a lot of women's shirt are designed to look "seductive" to men - and the reverse doesn't happen.

(Small diversion: while I tried to look for this quote's source, I found this ebook. The 2-3 pages I read sound like a book version of these "List of hateful feminist quotes" lists.)

[insert literally any quote from the SCUM Manifesto]

Valerie Solanas

I won't give a different rating to each individual quote, given how these kinds of lists tend to have many, many, so fucking many quotes from Solanas. I'll only give a general rating.

Usually, in these "hateful feminist quotes" lists, all of the Solanas quotes are true and hateful, and come from the SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) manifesto she wrote in 1967. However, I’m doubtful that they count as “quote by a famous feminist”, considering that:

SCUM was never founded - it stopped at its manifesto;

Feminists’ opinion of SCUM at the time was divided between “What is wrong with you, Valerie?” and “This is satire in really bad taste”;

Feminists’ opinion of SCUM today is divided between “What is wrong with you, Valerie?” and “Who the hell is Valerie Solanas?”;

Absolutely nobody, feminist or not, condoned Solanas’ attack on Andy Warhol; and

Solanas's attack on Warhol wasn't motivated by her feminist beliefs.

“We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men.”

– Elizabeth Cady Stanton

True, possibly hateful. But I want to point out something: this quote is from 1890. This is what anti-feminists believe modern feminism to be? Really? Haven’t they heard of how feminism isn’t a monolith, how there have been various discussions, schisms and revolutions during feminism's history, how there’s a lot of positions and criticism - oh, right, I forgot, feminism is evil and has always been the same since the dawn of time, duh. (# sarcasm)

“The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.”

- Sharon Stone; Actress

Almost 100% false. It also seems that Sharon either wasn’t a feminist during those years, or chose to not display her feminist beliefs back then. In either case, Sharon Stone cannot be considered a significantly important feminist by any stretch of the word.

"If the classroom situation is very heteropatriarchal--a large beginning class of 50 to 60 students, say, with few feminist students--I am likely to define my task as largely one of recruitment...of persuading students that women are oppressed,"

Professor Joyce Trebilcot of Washington University, as quoted in Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women.

Hm, this is an interesting one.

It’s unverifiable. Yes, AGAIN. No, it doesn’t count that it’s (supposedly) in Christina Sommers’ book “Who Stole Feminism” - she still needs to source the quote. As far as I can tell, Sommers mught've just made that quote up and falsely attributed it to Trebilcot.

Not only that, but the quote looks like it has been truncated. Considering the level of this list, I’m quite suspicious every time I see some ellypsis.

By the way: Sommers? Really?

“Men are animals. Don’t you think so?”

– Ireen von Wachenfeldt, radical feminist leader in Sweden

True and hateful, apparently (given that she quoted SOOOLAAANAAASS). Here's the link to the Wikipedia page on her - you'll have to run it on Google Translate or similar, though.

On another note: of all the quotes in anti-feminists' lists of "hateful feminist quotes" that are actually hateful quotes, it's noticeable how many of those come from Solanas alone. It’s almost as if anti-feminists focus excessively on her, and use her as the base that forms their opinion of all feminists.

I wondered if the woman married to a pig had read this ... Did that mean that all over the globe, in all innocence, women were marrying beasts? ... Why are so many men really beasts? "

Jeanette Winterson "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit" 1993, pp.71 -76

Fictional. The novel is about a lesbian girl growing up in a Pentecostal community. At one point, various religious people from that same community take the main character and her girlfriend, and subject them to exorcism.

In response to a question concerning China’s policy of compulsory abortion after the first child, Molly Yard responded, “I consider the Chinese government’s policy among the most intelligent in the world”

(Gary Bauer, “Abetting Coercion in China,” The Washington Times, Oct. 10, 1989).

Unverifiable. There is no trace of the quote in the "Washington Times", but I think that I found the original source: the American Life League, an evidently anti-abortion group. You'll forgive me if I treat that source with all the respect it deserves.

...

We aren't done yet, though! Here's some more quotes from organizations or unknown individuals!

"We are taught, encouraged, moulded by and lulled into accepting a range of false notions about the family. As a source of some of our most profound experiences, it continues to be such an integral part of our emotional lives that it appears beyond criticism. Yet hiding from the truth of family life leaves women and children vulnerable."

Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women.

Unverifiable and not hateful. It sounds like they’re talking about how a lot of assumptions and myths about “proper” families have lead women to believe that abuse is a “normal” part of a relationship.

MALE: represents a variant of or deviation from the category of female. The first males were mutants...the male sex represents a degeneration and deformity of the female.

MAN: an obsolete life form... an ordinary creature who needs to be watched...a contradictory baby-man...

TESTOSTERONE POISONING: ... ‘Until now it has been though that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it. But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from "testosterone poisoning."

From 'A Feminist Dictionary; ed. Kramarae & Triechler, Pandora Press, 1985

Unverifiable. The book DOES exist. What does NOT exist, is scans of it. Nor are there extensive citations of it - the only ones around are the same ones anti-feminists uses, same ellipsis and all. And, frankly, whoever first wrote this list has done such a sloppy job fact-checking this list that, by this point, I don’t trust them if they said that the sky is blue.

"Women have their faults- men have only two: everything they say and everything they do."

Popular Feminist Graffiti

Goddammit. Yet ANOTHER joke from a collection of jokes. No indication whatsoever this was from a feminist.

"Men, as a group, tend to be abusive, either verbally, sexually or emotionally. There are always the exceptions, but they are few and far between (I am married to one of them). There are different levels of violence and abuse and individual men buy into this system by varying degrees. But the male power structure always remains intact."

Message on FEMISA, responding to a request for arguments that men are unnecessary for a child to grow into mature adulthood.

Oh, now you’re just grasping at straws - misattributed. This quote is not from the FEMISA staff; it's from an e-mail sent to FEMISA. Come on - I thought this was a list of hateful quotes from *relevant* feminists - not from any random anon down the street!

"Clearly you are not yet a free-thinking feminist but rather one of those women who bounce off the male-dominated, male-controlled social structures. Who cares how men feel or what they do or whether they suffer? They have had over 2000 years to dominate and made a complete hash of it. Now it is our turn. My only comment to men is, if you don't like it, bad luck - and if you get in my way I'll run you down."

Letter to the editor, signed: "Liberated Women", Boronia Herald-Sun, Melbourne, Australia - 9 February 1996

Unverifiable. Once again, the only places where this quote pops up are lists of “hateful feminist quotes”. And judging by the quality of this list, that isn’t nearly enough.

“The simple fact is that every woman must be willing to be identified as a lesbian to be fully feminist”

(National NOW Times, January, 1988).

Unverifiable (supposedly written in 1988). There’s a lot of citations for this particular quote (many from copies of this list), but no image of the original.

“We identify the agents of our oppression as men…….ALL MEN HAVE OPPRESSED WOMEN…..We do not need to change ourselves, but to change men……The most slanderous evasion of all is that women can oppress men.”

–The Redstockings Manifesto

True, but out of context. Once again, anti-feminists have deliberately cut out various parts of the original manifesto. Here's the full quote (the bolded parts are the ones anti-feminists cut out):

"III We identify the agents of our oppression as men. Male supremacy is the oldest, most basic form of domination. All other forms of exploitation and oppression (racism, capitalism, imperialism, etc.) are extensions of male supremacy: men dominate women, a few men dominate the rest. All power structures throughout history have been male-dominated and male-oriented. Men have controlled all political, economic and cultural institutions and backed up this control with physical force. They have used their power to keep women in an inferior position. All men receive economic, sexual, and psychological benefits from male supremacy. All men have oppressed women."

"IV Attempts have been made to shift the burden of responsibility from men to institutions or to women themselves. We condemn these arguments as evasions. Institutions alone do not oppress; they are merely tools of the oppressor. To blame institutions implies that men and women are equally victimized, obscures the fact that men benefit from the subordination of women, and gives men the excuse that they are forced to be oppressors. On the contrary, any man is free to renounce his superior position, provided that he is willing to be treated like a woman by other men."

"We also reject the idea that women consent to or are to blame for their own oppression. Women's submission is not the result of brain-washing, stupidity or mental illness but of continual, daily pressure from men. We do not need to change ourselves, but to change men."

"The most slanderous evasion of all is that women can oppress men. The basis for this illusion is the isolation of individual relationships from their political context and the tendency of men to see any legitimate challenge to their privileges as persecution."

So, to sum it up:

Systemic sexism is caused by men.

All men benefit from this oppressive system.

Various people have tried to shift the blame for systemic sexism on "the institutions", which wrongly implies that both men and women are equally affected by sexism, and that men have no choice but to act as oppressors.

Various people have also tried to shift the blame on women, falsely claiming that sexism exists because women deliberately "consent" to be subjected to sexism.

Various people fail to see sexism as a systemic problem; instead, they wrongly paint it as a collection of individual acts that have no relation with each other.

When an oppressive system is challenged, the privileged group does not see that as "the dismantling of an unjust system"; instead, it sees that as "unjust persecution, and an attempt to upturn equality".

This is pretty accurate, and isn't hateful.

“We regard our personal experience, and our FEELINGS about that experience, as the basis for an analysis of our common situation. We cannot rely on existing ideologies as they are all the products of male supremicist culture.”

– The Redstockings Manifesto

True, but not hateful. Oh, no, feminists dare to talk about all their personal experiences about sexism and how they feel about it; and they also dare to reject existing sexist explanations of why sexist gender roles are just "natural". How dare they.

Also, why is "feelings" in all-caps like that? Is this the usual jab that women are emotional and therefore "inferior" to the logical men? Because that jab is shit.

FMS stands for: Full of Mostly (Bull) shit; For More Sadism; Felons, Murdereres, Ssumballs; Frequent Molesters Society

From a February 1995 handout at the "Stone Angels" satanic ritual abuse conference in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. The conference was supported financially by the Ontario Government

Unverifiable. And frankly too ridiculous to be true.

"All men are good for is fucking, and running over with a truck".

Statement made by A University of Maine Feminist Administrator, quoted by Richard Dinsmore, who brought a successful civil suit against the University in the amount of a $600,000.1995 settlement Richard had protested the quote; was dismissed thereafter on the grounds of harassment; and responded by bringing suit against the University..

Unverifiable. It IS true that Dinsmore sued the university due to, in his own words, “man-hating feminists”; HOWEVER, there’s no mention of the quote itself.

"Masculine sexuality involves the oppression of women, competition among men, and fear of homosexuality." "Rape is the end logic of masculine sexuality." "Male sexuality is negative."

Introductory texts for Women's Studies Courses at UCLA including: "More Power than We Want: Masculine Sexuality and Violence" by

Bruce Kokopeli and George Lakey [Cited in TNV]

Unverifiable.

And that’s it. The VAST MAJORITY of quotes are either not-hateful once we actually see the context (and paste back all the parts that anti-feminists censored behind ellypsis); or, their origin cannot be verified (and therefore we can’t be sure whether they actually came from feminists). Some quotes came from works of fiction and were spoken by fictional characters; they aren’t statements that the author personally made and supported. Of the remaining quotes that are both verified and hateful, a GIANT chunk of them is comprised entirely of Valerie Solanas - which isn’t held in much regard by modern feminists. In fact, I’m pretty sure many don’t even know about her.

#debunking antifeminism

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Oxford University puts up more portraits of women – BBC News

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Image caption Disability campaigner Marie Tidball and Professor Patricia Daley are among the new portraits

Oxford University is revealing the identities of more than 20 people whose portraits will be put on display to try to promote greater “diversity”.

It wants to redress the balance from the university’s walls being lined with pictures of “dead white males” by adding more women and ethnic minorities.

The portraits include broadcasters Dame Esther Rantzen and Reeta Chakrabarti.

Oxford’s head of equality Trudy Coe said it was “sending a signal”.

This commissioning of portraits is one of the biggest projects by the university to create a more diverse range of people portrayed in its public places – including more women, people from ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians and people with disabilities.

The university faced a high-profile controversy last year over whether a statue of Cecil Rhodes should be removed – after claims that the Victorian colonialist’s attitudes on race made him an unsuitable figure to be commemorated.

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Image caption Dame Esther Rantzen and Professor Kathy Sylva will be appearing on Oxford walls

The new pictures on the ancient walls will include scientist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell and author Jeanette Winterson. There will also be some men, including film maker Ken Loach.

“We’re not taking anyone down – but the portraits have been almost exclusively men and we’re just beginning to redress the balance,” says Ms Coe, head of the university’s equality and diversity unit.

“It will allow students to look up and see people who look like them. It’s sending a signal to a wider range of students that they belong here,” she says.

Ms Coe says the new pictures will reflect the modern reality of university life – and the people who have been painted or photographed have been nominated by current staff and students.

The people depicted have links with the university – such as being former students or academic staff – with the criteria that they were examples of excellence and widened the range of pictures from the “narrow and traditional” and “challenged stereotypes”.

Image caption Reeta Chakrabarti says the portraits will reflect the reality of modern Britain

Among the people to be represented will be criminologist and disability rights campaigner, Marie Tidball.

“Symbols are important,” she said.

There are millions of people with a disability in the UK, Ms Tidball said, but they have a “lack of visibility in public spaces”.

The commissioning of a picture of an academic with a disability was a “very significant” step towards making sure that all kinds of students could feel at home at the university, she said.

“I really hope that this speaks to kids now doing their GCSEs,” said Ms Tidball.

And she rejected suggestions of an excess of political correctness as “absolute nonsense”.

BBC journalist Reeta Chakrabarti said it was a project which reflected the university’s current staff and living alumni.

These are people who are “alive and kicking, a representation of modern day Britain,” she said.

“You could just continue to portray the same people, but it wouldn’t be a reflection of how the university and society have changed,” she said.

“Different ages, different societies celebrate different values.”

As a student at Oxford, she said “there weren’t many people there who were like me, from my sort of background”.

But she had an “overwhelmingly positive experience” and “nothing about Oxford made me feel out of place”.

Oxford University has faced questions about whether it is admitting enough poorer students and state-school pupils.

Admissions figures published earlier this year showed that Oxford had one of the lowest proportions of state school pupils of any UK university.

This showed that universities such as Bristol, Durham and Cambridge were admitting a higher proportion of state school pupils than Oxford.

The new portraits:

Diran Adebayo (novelist)

Dr Norma Aubertin-Potter (librarian at All Souls College, Oxford)

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (astrophysicist)

Professor Dame Valerie Beral (Professor of Epidemiology at Oxford University)

Professor Dorothy Bishop (Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at Oxford University)

Reeta Chakrabarti (BBC journalist)

Dr Penelope Curtis (arts administrator and former director of Tate Britain)

Professor Patricia Daley (Professor of the Human Geography of Africa at Oxford University)

Professor Trisha Greenhalgh (primary health care academic)

Anne-Marie Imafidon (women in science campaigner)

Professor Dame Carole Jordan (astrophysicist)

Professor Aditi Lahiri (Professor of Linguistics at Oxford University)

Kelsey Leonard (rst Native American woman to earn a degree from Oxford University)

Hilary Lister (first disabled woman to sail solo around Britain)

Ken Loach (television and film director)

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch (Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University)

Jan Morris (historian, author and travel writer)

Kumi Naidoo (South African human rights activist)

Dr Henry Odili Nwume (Winter Olympics British bobsledder)

Dame Esther Rantzen (broadcaster)

Professor Lyndal Roper (Regius Professor of History at Oxford University)

Professor Kathy Sylva (Professor of Educational Psychology at Oxford University)

Marie Tidball (member of Oxford University’s Law Faculty and disability rights campaigner)

Jeanette Winterson (novelist)