No End to the Shit that Pisses Me Off
By Peg Tittle
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War rape, profit, baby androids, tax exemptions for churches, make-up, having kids, assisted suicide, abortion, grades inflation, littering, business ethics...
Philosophy with an attitude. Because the unexamined life is dangerous.
"... smart, witty essays that challenge the intellect ... her razor sharp words will slice and dice the cerebral jugular." Laura Salkin, thinkspin
"... It's all thought-provoking, and whether or not you'll end up agreeing with her conclusions, her essays make for fascinating reading." Erin O'Riordan
"Tittle’s pieces are atypical of philosophical writing in the best ways: of interest to non-specialists, yet instructive and profound, yet entertaining." Ron Cooper, Professor of Philosophy
"... a passionate, stylistically-engaging writer ..." George, Amazon
Note: All of the pieces in the Shit that Pisses Me Off series (4 volumes) have been anthologized in either Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off (2nd edn) or Just ... Think about It! (2nd edn), along with almost a hundred additional pieces (in each case), and both are available in eformat and paperback.
Peg Tittle
Peg Tittle is the author of several novels: Fighting Words: notes for a future we won't have (Magenta, 2022), Jess (Magenta, 2022), Gender Fraud: a fiction (Magenta, 2020), Impact (Magenta, 2020), It Wasn't Enough (Magenta, 2020), What Happened to Tom (Inanna, 2016), and Exile (Rock's Mills Press, 2018). Both Gender Fraud: a fiction and It Wasn't Enough were Category Finalists in the Eric Hoffer Book Award competition; What Happened to Tom is on goodreads' list of Fiction Books That Opened Your Eyes To A Social Or Political Issue.Her screenplays (including What Happened to Tom and Exile) have placed in several competitions, including Moondance, Fade-In, GimmeCredit, WriteMovies, Scriptapalooza, and American Gem. Aiding the Enemy has been produced as a short by David McDonald.She has also written several nonfiction books: Just Think About It (Magenta); Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off (Magenta); Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason (Routledge); Should Parents Be Licensed? Debating the Issues (Prometheus); What If? Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy (Longman); Ethical Issues in Business: Inquiries, Cases, and Readings (Broadview).She was a columnist for the Ethics and Emerging Technologies website for a year (her "TransGendered Courage” received 35,000 hits, making it #3 of the year, and her “Ethics without Philosophers” received 34,000 hits, making it #5 of the year), The Philosopher Magazine's online philosophy café for eight years, and Philosophy Now for two years. In addition, her short commentary pieces have also been published in Humanist in Canada, Links, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Inroads, Elenchus, South Australian Humanist Post, Forum, and The Humanist. Her longer pieces have appeared in Free Inquiry, The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, New Humanist, The New Zealand Rationalist and Humanist, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Sexuality & Culture: an interdisciplinary journal. And she's had a list published at McSweeney's (“Why Feminist Manuscripts Aren’t Getting Published Today”). She now blogs (sporadically) at pegtittle.com and hellyeahimafeminist.com.She has an M.A. in Philosophy, a B.Ed., and a B.A. in Literature, and has received over twenty Arts Council grants.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This review is based on a free copy of this book.I approached this book with eagerness and optimism, thinking it would be similar to an earlier book in this series ("Shit that pisses me off"). I even held this viewpoint at the beginning chapter, thinking that perhaps the improved writing structure and minimal waffling was a positive signpost for chapters to come. How wrong I was.This book would be more aptly called "Qualities of Men that Piss Me Off (and Why Men are Inferior)". The few chapters that held promising ideas (such as "The Freedom to Fail, the Right to Succeed") were wholly squandered by irrational and misandric sweeping statements such as: "Men do not, clearly, consider us (women) equals," and "Men are concerned not only with physical size...but also with the size of their cars, their houses, their corporation," and perhaps the most telling "The male mind is more primitive..."She even went as far as to suggest we should implement a "Gender Responsibility Tax" in which $5000 should be payable by every male, because based on one survey, men littered more than women, and because more men tend to commit crime and occupy prisons. I'm not even going to begin explaining the many ways in which this terribly flawed, hypocritical and unjust policy could be abused by society.The hateful misandric attitudes ruined the book for me. Don't waste your time on it if you're looking for a balanced and reasonable critique on societal issues.
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No End to the Shit that Pisses Me Off - Peg Tittle
NO END TO THE SHIT THAT PISSES ME OFF
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Peg Tittle
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No End to the Shit that Pisses Me Off
Copyright 2013 by Peg Tittle
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Thanks to Ben for the series title
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Acknowledgements
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Also by Peg Tittle
Still More Shit that Pisses Me Off
More Shit that Pisses Me Off
Shit that Pisses Me Off
Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason
What If…Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy
Should Parents be Licensed? Debating the Issues
Ethical Issues in Business—Inquiries, Cases, and Readings
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Contents
1. A Man Shaken by a Bomb
2. I can do whatever I want on my own property!
3. Gay Bashing
4. The Condom Recall
5. What’s Wrong with Profit?
6. War Rape
7. The Freedom to Fail, the Right to Succeed
8. Baby Androids
9. Tax Exemptions for Charitable Institutions
10. Sports are Too Dangerous
11. To the Morons who wear Make-up
12. Impoverished Scientists
13. Having Kids and Having Religion
14. Men who need Mom to clean up after them
15. The Illegality of Assisted Suicide
16. The Pill for Men
17. The Political is Personal
18. Fight Breaks Out in the House of Commons
19. Quarantining HIV/AIDS
20. Almost Psychopathic
21. Property Tax—Justified?
22. Making Taxes Gender-Fair
23. Permitting Abortion and Prohibiting Prenatal Harm
24. Olympians
25. The Futility of Teaching Business Ethics or Why Our World Will End
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A Man Shaken by a Bomb
I picked up a sci-fi novel the other day at a used bookstore. The jacket said it was set after a nuclear war and written by someone who’d rubbed shoulders with a lot of military people. Well, I figured it’d be interesting to see what they imagined life’d be like after a nuclear war. (The pages weren’t blank.)
What can I say, it was slow reading. For example, the author said, A man who’s been shaken by a bomb knows what it feels like.
So I had to stop and wonder why a woman wouldn’t know. Is he saying women never get shaken by bombs because they’re never in bombed areas? Or they are, but for some reason, they don’t get shaken by them? Or they do, but they nevertheless don’t know what it feels like?
And that was just the preface. Chapter One introduced Florence. Who gossiped. She didn’t design state of the art mp3 players. And she certainly wasn’t looking for the cure to cancer. She gossiped. However, If your sister was in trouble and wired for money, the secret was safe with Florence. But if your sister bore a legitimate baby, its sex and weight would be known all over town.
Only if my