Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks. But they should.

I, like many people, have cut my social media down significantly, so perhaps I'll return here to some longer-form blogging.  At any rate, hoping this will keep me on task for 2023's Read Harder Challenge.  The first book I knocked off the list was Joanna Russ' On Strike Against God for number 14, "a book with under 500 Goodreads ratings."

I was not familiar with Russ' work prior to a few years ago, which is a pity because this book was an excellent dive into feminism of a certain era (second-wave feminism from the 70s/early 80s).  It's full of references to burning one's bra, but then it will contain huge chunks of truth that could have come off any feminist feed today, which is heartening and sad.  

That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad if you won’t let them play Chivalry, only some; that not all men write books in which women are idiots, only most; that not all men pull rank on me, only some; that not all men pinch their secretaries’ asses, only some; that not all men make obscene remarks to me in the street, only some; that not all men make more money than I do, only some; that not all men make more money than all women, only most; that not all men are rapists, only some; that not all men are promiscuous killers, only some; that not all men control Congress, the Presidency, the police, the army, industry, agriculture, law, science, medicine, architecture, and local government, only some.

#notallmen, it predates Twitter by about 33 years, turns out.