#robert jensen

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Summary: 😨🤯🌳💧🛑🚫

This book was about the dangers of climate change, and what we can do right now to fix it.

This book was okay. It was interesting to learn about the science of climate change, but I didn’t like that it made me feel guilty simply for existing. I understand that the authors are trying to give urgency to the cause, but I didn’t like how aggressive they were toward their readers. If someone is reading this book, chances are they believe in climate change and want to do something to fix it.

Maybe it was the narrator on Audible that I didn’t like, but it just seemed like the authors were mad at the readers for existing, and that we weren’t trying hard enough.

The #MeToo movement fights back against sexual harassment and assault, rejecting the idea that women exist for men’s sexual pleasure.

But alongside the growing success of that movement, the pornography industry continues to thrive by presenting explicit images that sexualize exactly this idea — that women exist to serve men’s desires, whatever those desires might be, no matter how much humiliation and suffering they impose on women.

In the struggle for women’s liberation, feminists in the 1970s began to use the term “gender” to describe the social construction of meaning around the differences in biological sex. When men would say, “Women are just not suited for political leadership,” for example, feminists would point out that this was not a biological fact to be accepted but a cultural norm to be resisted.

Por: Robert Jensen Tradução: Carol Correia Ano passado em meu escritório na Universidade de Texas, após ter resumido, a um grupo de jovens mulheres, a crítica feminista da pornografia (que elas nunca ouviram sobre), uma das alunas em seus vinte anos sugeriu que pessoas mais velhas (como eu, 57 anos) estão em desacordo com pessoas jovens, incluindo mulheres jovens. Sim, parte da pornografia é…