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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 Womenā€™s Group. The other woman, longer time lover of the woman briefly my lover, was the...
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jimdoxsee42:
Iā€™ve just read your most recent blog posts.Ā  As a 60 year old straight white cisgender neuroatypical man, I have lived a somewhat sheltered life.Ā  Your blog posts were an education. I was disillusioned by what you said about Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, in high school they were my favorite authors.Ā  But as Sam Harris said ā€œBeing embarrassed by our ancestors is the price we pay for moral progressā€. I live in the San Francisco Bay area in CA, most public restrooms here are now gender nonspecific.Ā  I got used to this very quickly. Itā€™s no big deal. Did you ever read ā€œI Will Fear No Evilā€?Ā  I imagine his views were uninformed.
lucyamy:
@jimdoxsee42 Yes, I read that. I cannot relate it to the real world because it's just its own kind of weird.
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OK, so recently I've been reading up on postmodernist thought & feminism, a whole topic that I will freely admit makes me want to vomit before I even start. So sick bags on standby (though that's actually a joke, because I never in fact make it to the subject). So, so informed/warned, read on.

First, all works I can find on the subject are, not...
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Itā€™s 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.

ā€œHebephilia 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 Fictionā€™s 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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littlejohn22:
His books read like this too
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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 donā€™t speak out:

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Chatting with my dear friend Casey (F, NY), we were discussing gender issues, and Iā€™d 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 wasnā€™t weird, and Iā€™m not really at liberty to explain the context). And Casey asked: ā€œSerious 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 Iā€™d 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 wasnā€™t weird, and Iā€™m not really at liberty to explain the context). And Casey asked: ā€œSerious question, if you were my little boy(?) what...
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