#thesecondsex — Public Fediverse posts
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It must be pointed out that our society, so concerned to defend the rights of the embryo, shows no interest in the children once they are born; it prosecutes the abortionists instead of undertaking to reform that scandalous institution known as 'public assistance; those responsible for entrusting the children to their torturers are allowed to go free; society closes its eyes to the frightful tyranny of brutes in children's asylums and private foster homes.
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Welsh’s Trainspotting meets Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. Both raw, both classic. My Needle’s Edge echoes the grit—Scotland’s dialect vs. America’s motel rooms.
https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/22/trainspotting-takes-over/
#Trainspotting #TheSecondSex #NeedlesEdge #AddictionLit #LiteraryFiction #BookTalk #BookDiscussion #ComparativeLiterature #ContemporaryFiction #Reading #AmREading #AmWriting #Addiction
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I thought this was an excellent lecture on the remarkable Simone de Beauvoir.
#philosophy #existentialism #phenomenology #deBeauvoir #Sartre #freedom #France #feminism #feminisme #TheSecondSex #ethics
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@hilaryjohn2 Continuig toot. Also '60's / '70's influencers were 'The Walden Project' 'An experiment in social living' + the ideas of #Buckminster-Fuller, + "The personal is the political" (Attrib. Simone de Beauvoir, '#TheSecondSex') + "En recherche des temps perdue" (#Camus / #Sartre?) & much other philosophy / metaphysics. Most influential latterly has been 'The Black Swan' by NTT, Have #GeneralFactotum duties now, #MUWF xP