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The Radical Notion of Not Winning
Once upon a time, I was an extremely competitive person. I still can be when it comes to games, as I’ve repeatedly demonstrated with my pathological unwillingness to give up on a Rock Band song … more →
A Secret Chord
The Radical Notion of Not Winning
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purtek wrote 7 months ago: Once upon a time, I was an extremely competitive person. I still can be when it comes to games, as I … more →
Sex and Drugs
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purtek wrote 11 months ago: This has probably been said somewhere already in the course of this recent discussion about new anti … more →
Faith, Certainty, Fear and Violence
purtek wrote 11 months ago: I do realize that what little I’ve been writing lately has been on the self-centred side, in t … more →
Unity
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purtek wrote 11 months ago: As I suppose may be obvious by now, I spend a lot of time thinking about selfishness, from both a … more →
...and Children
purtek wrote 1 year ago: This is a post that has nothing to do with elections of any kind. Consider yourselves warned. Two (o … more →
Trust and Politics: I Believe Him
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purtek wrote 1 year ago: The past week or so, I’ve actually been around, with some time and some thoughts that I could … more →
Another Whole People Group Rendered Incapable of Agency
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purtek wrote 1 year ago: Germaine Greer’s feminist philosophy is, to say the least, problematic, and her track record o … more →
Quick Note: Go, Torontonians, Go!
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purtek wrote 1 year ago: Backstory: A Neighbourhood “Safety Association” has committed itself to ridding the neig … more →
Sex, Drugs, Pity and Anger
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purtek wrote 1 year ago: Putting the Progressive Christian carnival together, while an immensely enjoyable and decidedly wort … more →
What Kyle Payne Reflects
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purtek wrote 1 year ago: In the ever-widening discussion of the predatory actions of Kyle Payne (see Ren Ev for a roundup lis … more →
Using Feminism for Power and Control
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purtek wrote 1 year ago: Through a few linkages and emails, I stumbled across the story of “feminist activist” Ky … more →
De-Humanizing
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purtek wrote 1 year ago: This is the result of turning people into products, of using words that allow you to think of human … more →
Capitalism and Club Feminism
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purtek wrote 1 year ago: Sudy: Surveying the Damage, Part II, in which she says in very few words what I have tried to get to … more →
Why Anti-Sex Work Feminism is Objectifying
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purtek wrote 1 year ago: Following up on my last post, I realized a concept that’s probably worth some expansion. I … more →
How Not to Have Honest Negotiations
purtek wrote 1 year ago: Again, in the Caledonia land claim dispute, the rhetoric being used by the government ensures that h … more →
Axis, Allies and Switzerland
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purtek wrote 1 year ago: Like most white people, I’ve got serious issues with my privilege. I can be completely oblivio … more →
Feminism, Hierarchy and Self-Aggrandizement
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purtek wrote 1 year ago: A few days ago, I posted on the recent attention drawn to the issue of the appropriation of WOC writ … more →
Martyr Complex: Activist Edition
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purtek wrote 1 year ago: My church has just started a series of sermons/lectures (because it’s really more of a teachy … more →
Carnivals!
purtek wrote 1 year ago: Carnivals are a blessing and a curse, in my world. Mostly, they just make me want to read *more stuf … more →
