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Recommendation RequestBooks on my Amazon list
Posted December 26, 2023 by Spencer_Shayy in Books

I have the following books on my Amazon wishlist:

  • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay

  • Trouble with Gender by Alex Bryne

  • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion by Jonathan Hadit

  • The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions And Bad Ideas Are Setting Up A Generation For Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Hadit

  • How To Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay

Has anyone here read any of these? Do you or do you not recommend them?

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ActualWendyJanuary 25, 2021

I agree. Talking about intersex people or people with AIS in the context of gender is harmful and cruel. Now that I've read this chapter, I have the language for participating in conversations about intersex people. I won't though, because the LGBT cult doesn't allow conversation, but I would be ready.

I haven't looked, but I wonder if that later materials at the end of this edition talk about "lady brains" and our wider brain diversity in genes expressed from the X chromosome. The research was just beginning. We need more research into the female body, but I guess anyone reading this book already knows that.

I appreciate how she started this chapter with an argument between a man and a woman, then revealed that it was about her parents, and the effect it had on her. She's very good at balancing dialogue, interviews, and expository passages.

[Deleted]January 27, 2021(Edited February 5, 2021)

It's really a shame how so much of the inclusivity movement has started with good intentions (body positivity, intersex VSD* language, mental and sexual health awareness) and it's all become something so stifling and unproductive.

*Variations of Sexual Development

GriffxxJanuary 27, 2021

I have the original that was published in 1999 and downloaded the 2014. This chapter is like night and day between the two books.

I really hate how Gender Ideology has seeped into the things I love best: books.

So far the Mystery genre umbrella hasn't been effected, yet. But Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror definitely has because it's speculative fiction. It's malleable enough for the insertion. There has been a certain amount of frequency of writers going into Trans subs asking for information.

[Deleted]January 27, 2021

Interesting, what are some of the differences (seems like a lot!) between the two versions?