When I was at university ā late Pleistocene ā I shared a flat with two women. Just two women. I really have been a woman loving man hating person all my life. One of those women, briefly my lover, was the President of the Liverpool University Guild of Undergraduates Womenās Group. The other woman, longer time lover of the woman briefly my lover, was the...
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Itās hard to believe that Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 ā May 8, 1988) was not a hebephile. I for sure believe he was. I suppose I should explain what a hebephile is, for those lucky enough not to have come across the word.
āHebephilia is the sexual preference for early adolescent children (those roughly ages 11 to 14). Some evidence suggests that hebephilia...
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Isaac Asimov was a feminist. At least, in his own mind, Isaac Asimov was a feminist. Isaac Asimov was certainly one of the Big Three writers of Science Fictionās Golden age (along with Robert Heinlein - I'll write about him later ā and Arthur C. Clarke), and was my favourite author throughout my childhood.
But he was sure as hell not a feminist.
What is...
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Most women don't speak out when they're sexually harassed or even assaulted or raped. This is a documented fact, even in liberal societies where such harassment is illegal, and - in the workplace - even in companies that have good ways if dealing with it, HR departments that care, and have well-defined processes to follow. There are several reasons why women donāt speak out:
Ā·...
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Chatting with my dear friend Casey (F, NY), we were discussing gender issues, and Iād suggested to her ā in what I hope was a not-at-all-weird way ā that I wished she had been my mother (no, seriously, in context it wasnāt weird, and Iām not really at liberty to explain the context). And Casey asked: āSerious question, if you were my little boy(?) what...
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Chatting with my dear friend Casey (F, NY), we were discussing gender issues, and Iād suggested to her ā in what I hope was a not-at-all-weird way ā that I wished she had been my mother (no, seriously, in context it wasnāt weird, and Iām not really at liberty to explain the context). And Casey asked: āSerious question, if you were my little boy(?) what...
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