Best women biographies according to redditors
We found 335 Reddit comments discussing the best women biographies. We ranked the 149 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 335 Reddit comments discussing the best women biographies. We ranked the 149 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
TIL white people were originally a small tribe of albino outcasts.
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A lot of modern perceptions about the demise of Imperial Rome, the rise of Christianity, and the so-called "Dark Ages" were informed by 18th and 19th century scholarship, much of which was written with an anti-Catholic bias. That bias often led the authors of those histories to "spin" their historical accounts so as to place the maximal amount of blame on the Catholic church. Probably the single most famous example is that of Edward Gibbons' The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which basically blamed Christianity for the fall of Rome and everything that followed it. That's almost certainly the source (even if only indirectly) for Sagan's account.
Since the 18th century, historians have done a great deal of work to reassess those arguments and revise our understanding of the period, but popular perceptions of the the mainlines of European history continue to lag behind. For the most part, the general public still subscribes to something like the Victorian view.
That view has been especially popular with public figures (like Sagan) concerned about the relationship between science, religion and society. Certain popularizers among them have essentially reiterated the mainlines of those Victorian biases, and their authority and popularity has won for those accounts something of a renaissance. The result is basically what you see here (and especially in /r/atheism, which likes to vote this ridiculous image to its front page every so often) -- people taking a very dubious oversimplification of history as indicative of the retrograde effect of religion on the scientific advance of culture.
There's a pretty good essay on the historical roots of that tradition in this collection, if you're interested. It's the one called "The Heirs of La Coterie Holbachique," although, now that I think on it, there's some pretty good material in "The Flattening of Historical Perspective," as well.
Concerning the Library of Alexandria and Hypatia specifically: There's plenty in Sagan's account to suggest that he's depending largely on legendary accounts of Hypatia. For example, it's true that by most accounts "she was a great beauty," but those accounts seem to have been embellished as an appeal to emotion. They've remade Hypatia into a kind of Greek ideal of wisdom, in order to make her murder seem tragic on a historical, rather than personal, level. There's no real evidence to suggest, as Sagan does, that she was killed "because she was a symbol of learning and science," nor because she was a pagan, of which Alexandria had multitudes. Based on the accounts I've read (this one, in particular), there's every reason to suppose that political and socio-economic motives factored more heavily into her murder. I gave a pretty basic break down of the argument for that interpretation here, if you're interested in more detail. In either case, it's overstating things quite a bit to suggest that Hypatia's death was part of a campaign to destroy the learning housed in the Library.
For one thing, the Library itself wasn't destroyed in Hypatia's era. Under an edict of Theodosius, an adjunct to the library, the Serapeum, was destroyed. As a student of the history of religion, I regard that as a major loss, but it probably didn't set science back at all. The reason is that the Serapeum was a temple dedicated to Serapis. It housed an offshoot of the Library's collection, but most serious scholars of antiquity (for example, Walter Burkert in his Ancient Mystery Cults, which see) maintain that the Serapeum housed liturgical texts, not philosophical and scientific texts. I wish those texts were still around so we'd have a better sense of what was involved in ancient religions, but it's going way beyond the realm of reasonable conjecture to liken their destruction to civilization having "undergone some self-inflicted brain surgery." It's unlikely that the plays of Sophocles were housed there, and even if there had been copies of Sophocles in the Serapeum, it's utter balderdash to suppose that there weren't hundreds of thousands of copies elsewhere in the world at the same time.
Portions of the Library at Alexandria were destroyed on four separate occasions. The final destruction of the library occurred in the 7th century, nearly three hundred years after the death of Hypatia. That it was destroyed at all was unfortunate, and it makes for exciting history to focus on those four highly politicized events, but the truth is that the destruction of the learning housed within the Library was a gradual process of dissolution.
The fact of the matter is that documents require constant upkeep and regular replacement to survive. That's why so few documents from antiquity have made it down to the modern era. The collection at Alexandria may have been finished off by one or another inferno, but those works are lost because they weren't better maintained. If they had been, then the destruction of a single library, no matter how well-stocked, wouldn't have mattered. The break down of the Roman Imperial system crippled the infrastructure needed to maintain wide literacy and preserve learning. For centuries after the Sack of Rome, most people were more worried about famine and Germanic invasion to invest much energy in preserving the literary heritage of the Greeks and Romans.
It's a romantic thought to suppose that saving a single library could have hurried along the scientific advance of Western civilization, but even if there had never been a single fire at Alexandria, the ravages of time and the costs of maintaining fragile artifacts would have ensured much the same end.
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
Holy cow
She's an asian woman.
I found her twitter from here
https://twitter.com/politicalkathy?lang=en
edit, aparently claire liu's a different person, they all look the same to be tbh 🤷
https://vid.me/claire_liu
https://claireliu1997.tumblr.com/
She's also written some books,
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
It's not the Art of Warmaidens, but I highly recommend Rejected Princesses. Lots of great stuff, bought an early copy for when my daughter is old enough to appreciate it.
How do you interpret this quote?
" I read Betty Friedan’s book [The Feminine Mystique] because I was very curious about it, and it’s so whiny, it’s just enough to drive a modern person mad to listen to these suburban housewives from the late ’50s ensconced in their comfortable secure lives complaining about the fact that they’re bored because they don’t have enough opportunity. It’s like, Jesus get a hobby. "
I'd recommend starting with Grace Hopper bio.
Grace Hopper and the Information Age
Base on your comments, you might also find CODE: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software a good read.
>Girls may be called "sluts" for any number of reasons, including being outsiders, early developers, victims of rape, targets of others' revenge. Often the labels has nothing to do with sex -- the girls simply do not fit in. An important account of the lives of these young women, Slut! weaves together powerful oral histories of girls and women who finally overcame their sexual labels with a cogent analysis of the underlying problem of sexual stereotyping.
She may not have read it, but she's not wrong
Read Persepolis.
there are these weird strands of asians who hang in white nationalist servers who are literally the most insane of white supremacists lol
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https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
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This book was written by an Asian man pretending to be an Asian woman who is obsessed with neo-nazis.
I got my nieces a copy of Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics.
They loved how the book portrayed strong, independent women throughout history.
https://www.amazon.com/Rejected-Princesses-Historys-Heroines-Hellions/dp/0062405373
I think it would be good to include some examples of subtle N abuse and break them down into why and how it is abuse. Have professional therapists explain how even though these behaviors don't seem so bad on their own as isolated incidents, when they happen repeatedly over many years, they undermine the self-confidence/-esteem of the abused parties, teaching them to deal with the abusers in certain ways that are inappropriate for dealing with normal people, which in turn sets the abused parties up for future relationship problems because they tend to try to read and deal with people the way they have had to learn to read and deal with their Ns.
"The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade," by Ann Fessler, is one of the best documentary-type books I've ever read (she also made a movie based on it, but I haven't yet seen it); she interviewed over 100 women who had been forced to give up the babies that resulted from their unintended pregnancies and used many of their real quotes throughout the text, with supporting statistics and facts in between (it's worth a read, even if you aren't part of the adoption community). I think the approach and format she used in the book would translate well to the subject of living with an N and the damage it can do, despite seeming innocuous to those who've never dealt with such people. Perhaps some dramatic reenactments of real stories of specific incidents would also help to drive the points home to those who haven't lived it.
I would definitely love to see something like this, and opportunity to contribute to it would be awesome!
Edit: Another good thing to include would be how hard it is for the victim to recognize that s/he did, in fact, live an abusive childhood - especially if all the abuse is mental/emotional and seldom witnessed by anyone outside the family and the victim has always been told what an ingrate or horrible child s/he was when rebelling against the abuse, even in subtle ways. I suppose this would fall under the isolation aspect of being raised by Ns.
First off: gender is a continuum, not a dimorphism. It's very important to remember that, or you may and up vacillating wildly between two extremes unwilling to find a comfortable expression somewhere in the middle.
Beyond that though, I don't think anyone can tell you where you fall on the spectrum. Almost everyone's experiences, and ways of coping, differ.
My best advice is to really open your mind to the options you have to express and embody your own personal gender, and then read a lot. Read blogs, watch videos, get some good books (I recommend Hello Cruel World or Gender Outlaw, Whipping Girl (a big heavy, but hey, you're on reddit!), and most importantly force yourself to think about it. Really think about it, without shame or fear, and see what feels right.
Find people who you can talk to, in real life or online, about it. The experience of having to explain your feelings to someone who doesn't share them is a really effective way to figure it out for yourself. A therapist would obviously be great for this of course, but if you're not in a position to find one a close and non-judgmental friend is great too.
Also, consider writing a diary, journal, blog or letter to share how you feel with a theoretical friend/confidant. Again, the process is much more important than the result.
Experiment! Try presenting as female, in big ways or small. Try imagining how everyday life would feel different as a girl. Is it "more normal" or exciting and transgressive?
It's not an easy thing to figure out, and there really don't seem to be any shortcuts. But the comfort of understanding yourself is well worth it.
Thank you Ms. Claire Liu
Thank you for your book that has opened my eyes and transformed my life. I can’t tell you how much I love your book and I hope you continue your wonderful work to help more asians such as myself who has been struggling with my sexuality and identity and to finally let all asians realize our inner callings to submit to white power. I used to be a very sad little asian boy. I felt anger, despair and jealousy whenever I saw beautiful asian girls walking down the street hand in hand with white men, to the point that I cannot even look at an asian girl without imagining her with a white man and when I got home I masturbated to the thoughts of those big white bullies fucking those beautiful asian girls and I cried myself to sleep, knowing that as an asian boy, I would never be able to find a girlfriend, and remembering the times and times again when I was bullied in school by big white jocks and now those white jocks are fucking the most beautiful asian girls. I wanted revenge by dating white girls, but I realized no white girl would ever want to date a loser asian boy such as myself, and it pissed me off to no end to know that even asian girls rejected me for being asian. I felt hopeless. I felt despair; an unfathomable abyss of bleakness shrouded me. And one day, almost as if I had snapped, I cried out and had a nervous breakdown and ever since I started to dress up as a girl and take female hormone. It was at the time of my nervous breakdown that I had an epiphany. I realized, even though my life is miserable as an asian boy, I didn’t have to live this life. I realized that I too can enjoy life, by becoming an asian shemale. Now I get fucked by big white cocks on a regular basis and I do everything I can to support the cause of white men, to fight for white men, to worship white men, and to pleasure white men with my inferior asian holes, though I have only two holes, my white master enjoys humiliating me to no end by playing and torturing my pathetic little cunt. He calls my boi clit a cunt because he loves making fun of how small I am, and I love being humiliated like this, and I especially love it when he forces me to wear a chastity belt when I get fucked and it’s so much fun. He also trained me to cum from anal and by now I can no longer cum unless I get fucked in the ass, just like an asian girl. I encourage all asians to read this book: My Sexual Submission to White Power, and I want to tell all asian boys out there, there is hope. Just become the girl you always dreamed of and you too can get fucked by big white cocks. You do not need to live in jealousy, in rage, and in maddening loneliness. Embrace your inner calling as a submissive asian slut and submit to white power, let yourself go, submit to the sublime greatness of white power and be happy to be the little yellow whore of your white gods.So buy this book, read this book and I hope you will be enlightened as much as I did and become what your destiny foretold you to be.Sincerely yoursyour biggest fan.
Thank you for your book that has opened my eyes and transformed my life. I can’t tell you how much I love your book and I hope you continue your wonderful work to help more asians such as myself who has been struggling with my sexuality and identity and to finally let all asians realize our inner callings to submit to white power.
I used to be a very sad little asian boy. I felt anger, despair and jealousy whenever I saw beautiful asian girls walking down the street hand in hand with white men, to the point that I cannot even look at an asian girl without imagining her with a white man and when I got home I masturbated to the thoughts of those big white bullies fucking those beautiful asian girls and I cried myself to sleep, knowing that as an asian boy, I would never be able to find a girlfriend, and remembering the times and times again when I was bullied in school by big white jocks and now those white jocks are fucking the most beautiful asian girls. I wanted revenge by dating white girls, but I realized no white girl would ever want to date a loser asian boy such as myself, and it pissed me off to no end to know that even asian girls rejected me for being asian. I felt hopeless. I felt despair; an unfathomable abyss of bleakness shrouded me. And one day, almost as if I had snapped, I cried out and had a nervous breakdown and ever since I started to dress up as a girl and take female hormone. It was at the time of my nervous breakdown that I had an epiphany. I realized, even though my life is miserable as an asian boy, I didn’t have to live this life. I realized that I too can enjoy life, by becoming an asian shemale. Now I get fucked by big white cocks on a regular basis and I do everything I can to support the cause of white men, to fight for white men, to worship white men, and to pleasure white men with my inferior asian holes, though I have only two holes, my white master enjoys humiliating me to no end by playing and torturing my pathetic little cunt. He calls my boi clit a cunt because he loves making fun of how small I am, and I love being humiliated like this, and I especially love it when he forces me to wear a chastity belt when I get fucked and it’s so much fun. He also trained me to cum from anal and by now I can no longer cum unless I get fucked in the ass, just like an asian girl.
I encourage all asians to read this book: My Sexual Submission to White Power, https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
And I want to tell all asian boys out there, there is hope. Just become the girl you always dreamed of and you too can get fucked by big white cocks. You do not need to live in jealousy, in rage, and in maddening loneliness. Embrace your inner calling as a submissive asian slut and submit to white power, let yourself go, submit to the sublime greatness of white power and be happy to be the little yellow whore of your white gods.
So buy this book, read this book and I hope you will be enlightened as much as I did and become what your destiny foretold you to be.
Sincerely yours
your biggest fan.
First, my partner had a similar upbringing where any strong emotion was discouraged, no matter whether it was positive or negative. He has been going to therapy for the last year and a half and it has really helped on specifically this issue (identifying, feeling and verbalizing emotions). This is something that was taught to you as a child, and it can be untaught. In fact, it could be great preparation for your own parenting experience, to re-parent yourself in this way.
Second, I too have much more muted emotions than many here. Part of that is because I miscarried last time and it's been difficult to let myself get excited, or the excitement is bittersweet. But also, while I want this child, I don't have the baby craving that many women seem to experience. It's going to change my life in a lot of overwhelming and intimidating ways, certainly not in 100% positive ways. I like my quiet house and my lazy weekends!
And yes, there are tons of kids that I know that I don't go out of my way to spend time with. That's totally fine, lots of parents report liking their kids and not other kids. It's kind of like how Marc Maron (comedian) says he's not a Cat Person, he's a My Cat Person. ;)
I read a book this past year called The M Word and it had some great stories from mothers about ambivalence (along with lots of other related experiences including loss, infertility, choosing not to have kids, being a nanny, being a grandparent, etc — super interesting stuff!).
I'm not sure about essential to every occult library (and I realize some of these aren't necessarily considered primarily 'occult' texts), but here are a few I've found useful:
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1440558721&sr=8-1-fkmr0#productDescription_secondary_view_div_1478458168805
You are of course entitled to your interpretation of feminism and your political opinions, but I must respectfully disagree.
I don't think feminism is the same thing as libertarianism, it is not about celebrating that women have the chance to make choices that subordinate women to men without any consideration for how patriarchy leads both men and women to find those choices expected, natural, inevitable and therefore (by way of sour grapes and sublimation) desirable. Its about problematizing inequality and gender based hierarchy and relationships of subordination whether they are on some level chosen or not.
Feminism requires that second level of analysis rather than subsuming all politics into the mantra of choice without consideration for how those choices impact society and are shaped by patriarchal ideology and social necessities.
The position that all choices are equally desirable and there can be no further inquiry into the political desirability of a relationship, regardless of power dynamics, as long as it can be understood as 'chosen' on some level, is not a feminist view of society. Thats a libertarian view of society.
I would encourage you (and other people following this thread) to read The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique if you haven't already.
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
Assuming OP is female, sorry if that's incorrect. Here are a few relevant resources to check out:
If you have strong feelings about adoption being an easy solution please read The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
I don't think you can disprove an opinion. I think you can contest an opinion, however, and I think some opinions are better than others. Let's use a more straightforward example. "The world is a better place when black people are enslaved." There is no way to objectively prove this untrue, and yet I think it's a worse opinion than the inverse. And, y'know, contesting the other opinion in this case meant fighting a war. If you think that Peterson's opinion isn't that bad, that's a different matter, but it being an opinion does not itself change the value of contesting. Given that he thinks that women fighting the fact that they were forced into the role of housekeepers were just whining about being bored, and that their complaints were therefore trivial, I think his opinion is quite worth arguing.
Here's that quote, for the record: "I read Betty Friedan’s book [The Feminine Mystique] because I was very curious about it, and it’s so whiny, it’s just enough to drive a modern person mad to listen to these suburban housewives from the late ’50s ensconced in their comfortable secure lives complaining about the fact that they’re bored because they don’t have enough opportunity. It’s like, Jesus get a hobby."
I want to be clear : housework isn't bad. Cleaning isn't bad. Cooking isn't bad. In fact, I do all of those things.
What's bad is social norms preventing a person from doing anything else. My mother, for example, had to fight for the right to pursue an advanced degree.
The constitutional amendment banning discrimination based on gender in (among other places) schools and workplaces was passed in her lifetime. Prior to that it was perfectly legal.
The (tedious, stupid) "get back in the kitchen" jokes reference that cultural climate without challenging it.
What's more, the legacy of that cultural climate is that there are so few women participating in technology in general and (by extension) reddit specifically.
These (constant and ubiquitous) jokes maintain a boy's club atmosphere and do nothing to indicate to the few female participants we have that they're welcome here and recognized as full equal members.
I'm not trying to censor anyone. I believe that each and every person on this website has the right to say anything -- even that all women are dumb fucking cunts and that anyone who complains about that characterization just needs some deep dicking.
But I reserve the right to call people out on their dumb, lazy, misogynist bullshit. The free speech pendulum swings both ways.
If you're genuinely curious for a fuller, more intelligent explanation of why that's so bad, I will buy you this book. No joke. PM me your mailing address or make an amazon wishlist with that item and send me the link if you're concerned for your privacy and think I have nefarious intentions. If you're reading, I'm buying.
Have you seen the book Forgotten Princesses? It's got age and content ratings so you can read the most appropriate ones, and they're all historical women!
Edit: it's actually Rejected Princesses, and there are a bunch on the site of the same name for you to sift through if you like!
Well, while "reseraching" the site I did find this, which the she claims to have written:
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
If it is trolling, it's very serious trolling.
This blog is exactly what you are looking for in my opinion.
http://rejectedprincesses.tumblr.com
There's also a book with illustrations.
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062405373/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_LFs1AbA99BHPS
i rly think its just marketing
he has a patreon and hes plugging his """"sister's"""" """"""book""""""""".
heres a lil excerpt from the amazon blurb for "My Sexual Submission to White Power: The Diary of an Ordinary Chinese Woman's Transformation from an Obedient Asian Wife to a Masochistic Chink Slut" -
>every day and night I fantasize of being sexually dominated by a real man, a White man—whenever I fantasize about sex, it’s inevitably a White man, always, even in my dreams I dream of a dirty old White man just stripping me naked, beating me, tying me up, whipping me mercilessly with his belt, and then—use me, brutally, treat me like a dirty yellow cum dump. I can’t help myself and I really wish someone could help me fulfill my unfulfilled sexual desires that are burning me alive. Call me his chink cum dump, his oriental meat urinal, rape me, torture me, beat me, humiliate me.
speaks for itself
i bet people are buying this shit up
A good book for those who want to know that women have been Masons, but haven't been allow in even though Freemasons gave them the EA obligation.
http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Chambers-Lives-Early-Freemasons/dp/1934935557
This is probably an unorthodox suggestion but I have a book recommendation for you. The Girls Who Went Away is a collection of first-person accounts from women who were forced by their families to give up children for adoption, in the days when pregnant teens would be whisked out of sight to a group home. In many cases this was horrifically traumatizing for both the teen mothers and the children, who subsequently grew up thinking they were unwanted by their birth mothers. It also often caused irreparable damage to the relationship between the teen and her own parent(s) who caused the adoption to happen.
I say this NOT AT ALL to dissuade you from adoption--but to highlight how important it is to try to convince your daughter that an open adoption is the way to go, if she continues to rule out abortion. If she doesn't willingly make the choice, I think there's a good chance she may never forgive you.
I really don't know who is the best person to talk to about this. I do think therapy would do both of you good--because I think you have understandable unresolved trauma surrounding your wife's death, which is now being transferred onto your daughter.
Do you think she would agree to just talk to someone at Planned Parenthood or another women's clinic, just so they can lay out her options? They will not pressure her towards or away from an abortion, but I hope they would be honest about the risks of pregnancy and the pressures of child-rearing at her age. (Just make sure you DON'T go to a so-called "Crisis Pregnancy Center" which is actually a religious organization designed to lure women seeking abortions and persuade them to go through with the pregnancy instead.)
Also, I know that there are mentoring programs for teen moms where the mentors are former teen moms themselves. If there's something like that in your area, it might be worth checking whether one of the mentors would be willing to have an honest talk with your daughter about what she would be getting herself into. Her school counselor might know about such programs, or you could call United Way's 211 help line. (Or search the directory here.)
Good luck, I really feel for you both. :/
I'm gonna be there! I'm currently reading this biography about her. I can't wait for Baltimore. :)
I mean I don't know. Seems to me like most of the posts are made by a person name "Claire Liu" (and she write books like these).
But some of those pictures with a wall of text gave me a "shame Asian women" vibe to it. I could be wrong, but that's the feeling I am getting from it.
Here's my list so far. It's a mix of FTM-specific, general trans, and gender studies books, including essays, memoir, and more academic works. In no particular order:
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman
Nina Here Nor There by Nick Krieger
Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam
Nobody Passes - Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Whipping Girl by Julia Serano
How Sex Changed: A History of Transexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz
Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green
Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer by Riki Wilchins
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality edited by Carol Queen
Genderqueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary edited by Joan Nestle
From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond edited by Morty Diamond
Second Son by Ryan Sallans
Why are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
and the must-read fiction:
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
I'll edit this if I can find any others, I'm probably missing a couple. Been a big non-fiction reading year for me!
EDIT: Edited to add links, and a few more on my wish list I haven't picked up yet.
Letters for my Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect edited By Megan M. Rohrer, M.Div. & Zander Keig, M.SW.
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men by Lori B. Girshick
Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience by Matt Kailey
The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male by Max Wolf Valerio
Thank you for replying and answering my questions. As a non-childbearing woman myself, let me recommend you some books I've read to help me with understanding our place in this world.
Motherhood: A Novel, by Shelia Heti
Selfish, Shallow, and Self Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids by Meghan Daum
The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood by Kerry Clare
There's really very very little that we know about Hypatia, an unfortunate consequence of the paucity of sources that have survived. This makes it quite difficult to get a book-length biography together that isn't full of conjecture and outright fiction. There are two books I know of that aren't full of lies and woo:
Sorry I thought of two more that are a little more political, they are "Gender Outlaw" by Kate Bornstien and "Whipping Girl" by Julia Serrano.
https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Outlaw-Men-Women-Rest/dp/0679757015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466321943&sr=8-1&keywords=gender+outlaw
https://www.amazon.com/Whipping-Girl-Transsexual-Scapegoating-Femininity/dp/1580051545/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1466321964&sr=8-2&keywords=whipping+girl
I'd say, check out Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum. The first known solo circumnavigation.
I've also read Maiden Voyage. Those are the only two I've read and I think Slocum is a better writer.
Rejected princesses is an AMAZING book of stories about women. Illustrated by a former Disney illustrator, written with a slightly sarcastic sense of humor.. I love it but it might be a bit much, depending on how mature your daughter is.
https://www.amazon.com/Rejected-Princesses-Historys-Heroines-Hellions/dp/0062405373
He has a website if you wanted to peruse some of the stories
http://www.rejectedprincesses.com
For histriocal accuracy the stand out candidates are:
Maus - the plight of the jews during WWII (all-be-it told through mice and cats instead of jews and nazis)
From Hell - Jack the Ripper & Victorian London
Pelestine - About the troubles in Pelestine during the 90's
Persepolis - Growing up in Iran during the war between Iran and Iraq
If you're looking for something that captures the mood and times accurately, but doesn't concern itself with actual factual events, then try the Lone Wolf and Cub Series (Edo period Japan).
Whatever dude. I can't force you to learn if you aren't willing to.
You brought up race, so if you're genuinely interested in chess and minorities maybe the best can do I just leave you some links about that topic. Most of what's been written is about gender rather than race, but a lot of the points likely overlap with race:
>Adult Fiction:
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Grass by Sheri Tepper
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden-Elgin
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Their Eyes Are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurtson
>Adolescent Lit:
Speak by Laurie Halse-Anderson
>Nonfiction:
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
And I agree with others, Simone de Beauvoir is a great read
Maybe you should read this? http://www.amazon.com/Slut-Growing-Female-Bad-Reputation/dp/0060957409
As of last week, it's a book too! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062405373
If anyone is interested, here's a really good book about homes for unwed mothers that were very common in the U.S. before Roe v. Wade: https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Who-Went-Away-Surrendered/dp/0143038974
And if you want to more obscure but real religions:
And if you want to be very snarky:
I wrote about 1k words last night for my first erotica. It's so queer. I impress myself with my own queerness now, huh who knew. But 1k is not my best day ever when it comes to writing. I usually push up to like 4k words a day when I want to write, but sigh... life is in such a flux it's frustrating for me. Anyway, chipping away still at my new favorite inspriational book :p
Also strongly considering that PHD in philosophy towards Posthumanism/ Cybernetics/ Feminism. I still flirt with surgeon-engineer, but I dunno, I think that dream had its place back in 2005, and I just chose a different path. Two paths in a wood or something like that.
On a bright note, thinking about my call girl and erotica author names is more fun than picking my legal name was, because I give no fucks if society doesn't like it...but then again, I won't be able to share them either -_- Everything has its price, eh.
Preacher!
It's the first graphic novel set I ever read and I bloody love it. It's twisted and dark and just brilliant.
I love seeing true stories told in graphic novel form too, so I would also recommend Persepolis, about a girl growing up in Iran during a time of amazing change, and Maus, which is the author telling the story of his dad's time in WWII.
You should try reading Belle De Jour's Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl together. Did the trick for my girl and me. Notice especially the dinner scene at the beginning.
There are some really good books about it. I think Robert Monroe might be helpful: http://www.amazon.com/Journeys-Out-Body-Robert-Monroe/dp/0385008619
There's also a really old book that is still extremely interesting and a great read: http://www.amazon.com/Projection-Astral-Body-Sylvan-Muldoon/dp/1447402251/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1318623003&sr=1-1
Isn't that the truth? Slut technically applies, but it unfortunately has negative connotations for most (particularly not in a sex setting) and used to ridicule and shame women for perfectly normal sexuality. And it shouldn't, but men want the Madonna and the whore.
Slut: Growing Up Female With a Bad Reputation is a great read on this topic.
Sorry you have to deal with that. Kids in high school are illogical assholes.
So, this is a book I read when I was like 19, maybe it could help? Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation
The main thing I liked about it was because most women who are branded "sluts" really aren't at all. Double standards are a crime and a shame that make no sense.
Just ignore the assholes and go about your business.
A few more thoughts:
-People might be jealous of you.
-Just go with the lie. When I was younger people used to make fun of me for "eating dogs" since I am half korean. I noticed once I started saying I did eat dogs and go into detail about which dogs were the best to eat, people stopped making fun of me. Of course, this was in junior high school, so who knows.
TL;DR- sorry people are assholes.
From childhood: probably Tintin and National Geographic (I've been a subscriber since I was 5 years old). Both convinced my young brain that there is an extraordinarily diverse, beautiful and wonderful world out there to explore (and to photograph).
When I was a teenager, I came across Michael Palin's "Around the World in Eighty Days" series which really got my travel itch going. I still plan to "beat" Palin in my own circumnavigation at some point in the near future.
It was also at this time that I discovered Mark Twain's travel novels which opened a whole world of modern travel writing, including some of these great story-tellers:
The Sepher Yetzirah
Agrippa's Three Books on Occult Philosophy
The Pistis Sophia
The Secret Doctrine
The Book of the Law
The Book of Abramelin
There is a really fabulous book that I picked up several years ago. Just pulled it off the shelf, because - as a 35 year old woman who lives in GA - I apparently need to brush up on what things were like 'before.'
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It is heart-wrenching to read, but I highly recommend it to anyone who wonders what life was like then. And why adoption isn't the panacea that it's described as by pro-lifers.
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https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Who-Went-Away-Surrendered/dp/0143038974
"When you think positive, good things happen"
What about Rejected Princesses?? They're great comics about powerful women that tend to be ignored by history. You can see some of the comics here. I think they're great.
I loved her book <3
http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Bitch-Women-Ultimate-Intellectual/dp/189008509X
Awesome! In that case, I think you'd love this book by Rejected Princesses. It's full of stories of awesome, powerful women throughout history. You should check out the RP website too!
Many of the girls actually wanted to keep their babies, but were coerced into giving them up for adoption. This was in the days before open adoption, so a good deal of women never got to meet their children, or took decades to find them. Here is a very good book about the subject!
I thought it was joke, here is the source
It wasn't in the book. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Black-Swan-Impact-Improbable/dp/0141034599
You could use a URL shorterner, possibly? The Amazon links are really, really long.
Ooh! Ooh!
After some googling, I learned that you can directly shorten amazon's links: See here.
So, for example:
amazon.com/The-Feminine-Mystique-Betty-Friedan/dp/0393322572/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342892808&sr=8-1&keywords=the+feminine+mystique
becomes
amzn.com/0393322572
And it doesn't even redirect to some random page. It goes straight to it. :D
In a perfect world, they wouldn't. But words don't exist in a vacuum. They have connotations.
My question would be why the hell do people feel the need to label people for their personal sexual choices? Who gives a shit who is a slut or who slept with 5 people or who slept with 100 people? It's their body, and their choice. Why can't we all just have sex with who we want without people labeling and judging us?
> Basically, if people are calling you a slut, you are either a slut or, you are surrounding yourself with people that don't have the same principals as you.
This is not true. You are creating a false dichotomy.
There are a number of other viable possibilities. People use words to hurt people regardless of whether it's true or they share the same "principals."
> Slut is a word, it doesn't change your behavior or the amount of people you sleep with.
Words can change people's behavior. That's why we use them so often. Why would the word 'slut' be an exception?
Slut! is a great book that illustrates this on this very topic.
http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Chambers-Lives-Early-Freemasons/dp/1934935557
Would recommend reading this from Irish cyclist and travel writer Dervla Murphy: https://www.amazon.com/Full-Tilt-Ireland-India-Bicycle/dp/1906011419
This is a randomly amazing contest of random amazingness.
Morthy Demands:
Posh Old Englishman in Londontown [Found on "Little Bit of Everything!"]
Oh God! [Found on "Read or GTFO!"]
So phallic right now [Found on "Little Bit of Everything!"]
Akeleie Demands:
Geektastic! [Found on "Read or GTFO!"]
Reach for the Stars! [Found on "Little Bit of Everything!"]
Deserted Island! [Found on Little Bit of Everything!]
This was hilarious to me!
> You're going to need to provide some sources or something if you want to say that AI inevitably results in "catasrophic failure"
You need to see this not only from the technologic angle, but also from the chaos theory side. I suggest you read stuff by Nassim Taleb, particularily The Black Swan.
> This is really the resource to check out, but it's dense:
All of these read a lot like modernized versions of those 1930's articles of "mechanized men-like robots". If you want to believe in them, then do, but please do not spread them as truth.
Love this movie, but also loved the book on which it was based.
Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman was a book I had to read for a college course years ago, but now that I have a daughter of my own it'll be worth a reread as she approaches adolescence.
I like big books and I cannot lie really... I love them.
Non-fiction:
History of your home!
Some badass women!
What did those lyrics mean?
fiction:
The Magic of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt Jr. Its a huge series, that is the first one.
Or seriously, anything by Dan Simmons. :)
https://www.amazon.com/Rejected-Princesses-Historys-Heroines-Hellions/dp/0062405373 this book had joan of arc. Not sure if it tells the story of any other saints. I have a copy and could go check if you're interested.
here are some links of Jenny Suzuki writing under her own name:
https://inferiorasian.com/
http://inferiorasian.tumblr.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Submissive-East-Asian-Women/dp/1500763462
http://ihateasianguys.tumblr.com/
Writing under pseudonyms (like "Claire Liu", her "full Chinese woman" alter ego) (once you read the writing, it becomes obvious that it is likely the same writer):
https://ihateasianmen.wordpress.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Submission-White-Power-Transformation/dp/1516922549
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMG35Q0xa9sPSNsCdsi5OPw
Ironically, "Jenny Suzuki", as a Japanese woman (albeit genetically only 1/4 Japanese, and 1/4 white and 1/2 Chinese) hates and looks down on Chinese people, including Chinese women.
I'm sure there's more if you research the links in her articles.
I'm so very sorry that she's going through such a difficult time :( I can't imagine the pain you must feel as a mother seeing this happen, wanting to help but not knowing how.
Does she have any interest in art or writing? A lot of people who have trouble expressing themselves or dealing with pain can find an outlet in an art form. Art therapy is a specific option, but just regular art expression is very therapeutic and helped me cope with my own pain.
Art activity can also lead to finding an art community, and really, a connection to people who share a passion is the most important thing for her to find, whatever that passion is.
Anxiety medication did wonders for me, as did running regularly (despite being the opposite of athletic). I also find a lot of comfort in reading about other's experiences, because it helps the lingering loneliness of being misunderstood. Women From Another Planet was especially good, and there's many similar books on Amazon too.
One thing I wish I could have done at that age was start taking adult level classes in my areas of passion, like at a community college.
Have you ever read Belle de Jour's work: http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Diary-Call-Girl-Belle/dp/044654082X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thstsst-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957 , or other women who write / theorize about what they call "sex-positive lifestyles" and the like?
If so, what did you think?
Where'd you end up going to college?
I like Maiden Voyage.
8)https://www.amazon.com/Projection-Astral-Body-Sylvan-Muldoon/dp/1447402251/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1486766482&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=sylvan+muldoon
>As noted above, he was not a pagan and his opposition to Cyril was a purely political struggle for hierarchical supremacy in the city and had nothing much to do with religion. And he was not murdered by anyone, though he did get a stone to the head in a demonstration which in turn sparked the tit-for-tat factional killing that ended with the political assassination of Hypatia.
>
>>"Cyril next began to plot against his other major Pagan opponent in Alexandria, Hypatia. As a woman who represented heretical teachings, including experimental science and pagan religion, she made an easy target."
>
>More fantasy. We have no evidence she did any "experimental science" and there is no reliable evidence that her learning, any "heretical teachings", her paganism or even her gender were factors at all. She seems to have been targeted simply because she was a political ally of Orestes in a factional squabble.
>
>>"He preached that Christ had no female apostles, or teachers. Therefore, female teachers had no place in Christianity. This sermon incited a mob led by fanatical Christian monks to attack Hypatia as she drove her chariot through Alexandria. "
>
>Again, this is straight from the 2009 movie. There is no such preaching even hinted at in the sources.
>
>>"The Dark Ages Begin"
>
>Anything that we could call "the dark ages" began somewhat later and in far off western Europe, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Hypatia lived in the Eastern Empire, which lasted for another 1000 years
>
>>"Hypatia’s students fled to Athens."
>
>There is no evidence of them fleeing anywhere.
>
>>"The Neo-Platonism school she headed continued in Alexandria until the Arabs invaded in 642."
>
>So much for her death bringing on a dark age then.
>
>>"When they burned the library of Alexandria, using it as fuel for their baths, the works of Hypatia were destroyed."
>
>The legend of the Caliph Omar burning any library in Alexandria is dated to centuries after his time and is almost certainly nonsense. And the actual Library had ceased to exist before Hypatia was even born anyway, as explained above.
>
>>"Her writings are only known today through the works of others who quoted her "
>
>No they aren't and no they didn't.
>
>>"Cyril, the fanatic Christian who incited her destruction, was made a saint."
>
>At least they managed to get one thing right. These articles about Hypatia are usually riddled with nonsense, but I count at least 26 errors of fact or outright fantasies and inventions in this one. I think this must be some kind of record.
>
>Sources:
>Maria Dzielska, Hypatia of Alexandria (harvard, 1995)
>Edward J. Watts, Hypatia (Oxford, 2017)
>As noted above, he was not a pagan and his opposition to Cyril was a purely political struggle for hierarchical supremacy in the city and had nothing much to do with religion. And he was not murdered by anyone, though he did get a stone to the head in a demonstration which in turn sparked the tit-for-tat factional killing that ended with the political assassination of Hypatia.
>
>>"Cyril next began to plot against his other major Pagan opponent in Alexandria, Hypatia. As a woman who represented heretical teachings, including experimental science and pagan religion, she made an easy target."
>
>More fantasy. We have no evidence she did any "experimental science" and there is no reliable evidence that her learning, any "heretical teachings", her paganism or even her gender were factors at all. She seems to have been targeted simply because she was a political ally of Orestes in a factional squabble.
>
>>"He preached that Christ had no female apostles, or teachers. Therefore, female teachers had no place in Christianity. This sermon incited a mob led by fanatical Christian monks to attack Hypatia as she drove her chariot through Alexandria. "
>
>Again, this is straight from the 2009 movie. There is no such preaching even hinted at in the sources.
>
>>"The Dark Ages Begin"
>
>Anything that we could call "the dark ages" began somewhat later and in far off western Europe, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Hypatia lived in the Eastern Empire, which lasted for another 1000 years
>
>>"Hypatia’s students fled to Athens."
>
>There is no evidence of them fleeing anywhere.
>
>>"The Neo-Platonism school she headed continued in Alexandria until the Arabs invaded in 642."
>
>So much for her death bringing on a dark age then.
>
>>"When they burned the library of Alexandria, using it as fuel for their baths, the works of Hypatia were destroyed."
>
>The legend of the Caliph Omar burning any library in Alexandria is dated to centuries after his time and is almost certainly nonsense. And the actual Library had ceased to exist before Hypatia was even born anyway, as explained above.
>
>>"Her writings are only known today through the works of others who quoted her "
>
>No they aren't and no they didn't.
>
>>"Cyril, the fanatic Christian who incited her destruction, was made a saint."
>
>At least they managed to get one thing right. These articles about Hypatia are usually riddled with nonsense, but I count at least 26 errors of fact or outright fantasies and inventions in this one. I think this must be some kind of record.
>
>Sources:
>Maria Dzielska, Hypatia of Alexandria (harvard, 1995)
>Edward J. Watts, Hypatia (Oxford, 2017)
>As noted above, he was not a pagan and his opposition to Cyril was a purely political struggle for hierarchical supremacy in the city and had nothing much to do with religion. And he was not murdered by anyone, though he did get a stone to the head in a demonstration which in turn sparked the tit-for-tat factional killing that ended with the political assassination of Hypatia.
>
>>"Cyril next began to plot against his other major Pagan opponent in Alexandria, Hypatia. As a woman who represented heretical teachings, including experimental science and pagan religion, she made an easy target."
>
>More fantasy. We have no evidence she did any "experimental science" and there is no reliable evidence that her learning, any "heretical teachings", her paganism or even her gender were factors at all. She seems to have been targeted simply because she was a political ally of Orestes in a factional squabble.
>
>>"He preached that Christ had no female apostles, or teachers. Therefore, female teachers had no place in Christianity. This sermon incited a mob led by fanatical Christian monks to attack Hypatia as she drove her chariot through Alexandria. "
>
>Again, this is straight from the 2009 movie. There is no such preaching even hinted at in the sources.
>
>>"The Dark Ages Begin"
>
>Anything that we could call "the dark ages" began somewhat later and in far off western Europe, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Hypatia lived in the Eastern Empire, which lasted for another 1000 years
>
>>"Hypatia’s students fled to Athens."
>
>There is no evidence of them fleeing anywhere.
>
>>"The Neo-Platonism school she headed continued in Alexandria until the Arabs invaded in 642."
>
>So much for her death bringing on a dark age then.
>
>>"When they burned the library of Alexandria, using it as fuel for their baths, the works of Hypatia were destroyed."
>
>The legend of the Caliph Omar burning any library in Alexandria is dated to centuries after his time and is almost certainly nonsense. And the actual Library had ceased to exist before Hypatia was even born anyway, as explained above.
>
>>"Her writings are only known today through the works of others who quoted her "
>
>No they aren't and no they didn't.
>
>>"Cyril, the fanatic Christian who incited her destruction, was made a saint."
>
>At least they managed to get one thing right. These articles about Hypatia are usually riddled with nonsense, but I count at least 26 errors of fact or outright fantasies and inventions in this one. I think this must be some kind of record.
>
>Sources:
>Maria Dzielska, Hypatia of Alexandria (harvard, 1995)
>Edward J. Watts, Hypatia (Oxford, 2017)
This is the only thing I too cannot figure out! I've decided that for now, its better to have my tea the way I like it and just focus on paleo foods. Tea is really important to me =)
An aside: I recently learned from reading the book Full Tilt that some cultures use salt in their black tea instead of sugar! Dont know why I've never thought of that before, but I tried it and its really good. =)
There's a great book about women in chess that tackles this problem. (Big conclusion: less support for young girls learning to play top chess.) https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Bitch-Women-Ultimate-Intellectual/dp/189008509X
There's a pretty good book about Grace Hopper and the history of programming (at least, the part that she was involved in). It talks a little about the challenges she faced as a woman, as well as all the technical challenges her team had to deal with. Apparently when a computer crashed in those days, it literally made a lot of noise. :)
This is the perfect book for you: The Black Swan.
How about you read this book, and then live with a mother going through that trauma untreated for 28 years and get back to me. http://www.amazon.com/The-Girls-Who-Went-Away/dp/0143038974
http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Who-Went-Away-DecadesBefore/dp/0143038974/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269575656&amp;sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/When-Abortion-Was-Crime-1867-1973/dp/0520216571/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269575719&amp;sr=1-1
These will give you a lot of reference to the pre-Roe movement. As for more recent history, other folks can probably help you more than I can.
Who's got book recommendations? Here are mine:
There are loads of great books out there but I think the very best is an old one by Sylvan Muldoon (and Hereward Carrington) called simply "The Projection of the Astral Body".
It is very down to earth and pleasant to read and does not claim to have all the answers. It is good as an instruction manual too.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Projection-Astral-Body-Sylvan-Muldoon/dp/1447402251
Colin Wilson has written in some capacity on the subject, notably in his book called "The Occult" or "Beyond The Occult" which are terrific books.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Occult-Twenty-Research-Paranormal-ebook/dp/B00HETG8TM/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1427125286&amp;sr=1-4&amp;keywords=occult+wilson
there are 6 requirements that an animal must have in order to be considered "domesticated".
not exactly...
no comment...
'nuff said
not according to history. They can be have very bad temperances...
read this
In conclusion, women are NOT domesticated animals. hope this has helped...
Well, you did only ask for ones that hadn't obtained the title by "skullduggery", so you kind of answered that for me.
https://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Chambers-Lives-Early-Freemasons/dp/1934935557