More Shit that Pisses Me Off

By Peg Tittle

Why do men spit (and women don’t)? What’s the real problem with cellphones? What’s wrong with wedding leave?
Do you remember Grade Ten History? Why isn’t being a soldier more like being a mother? What did God really promise?
And let’s talk about sex...

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


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).

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Nov 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781926891316

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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MORE SHIT THAT PISSES ME OFF

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More Shit that Pisses Me Off

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Also by Peg Tittle

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

Contents

God Promised!

Suicide, Insurance, and Dead Sugar Daddies

Cell Phone Syndrome

Whose Violence?

If she can wear perfume in public, I don’t have to wear a shirt

School Crossing Signs

Wedding Leave

Freakonomics Indeed

The Arithmetic of Morality

King of the Castle

The Smiths and their Biochem Cubes

Vested Interests and Cancers

Inner Peace is Disturbing

Figure Skating: A Very Gendered Thing

We are the Champions

Let’s Talk About Sex

Grade Ten History

Making Kids with AIDS

Why isn’t being a soldier more like being a mother?

Why Do Men Spit?

Guns

Christmas Elves

Free to be—Offensive (You are such an idiot.)

First (and last) Contact

What if the right to life…

Acknowledgements:

God Promised!

With such regularity, it really should be the refrain of every national anthem, we hear something along these lines: ‘The land is rightfully ours. God promised it to us.’

Yeah well, God lies. Or at least he changes his mind.

Consider this: And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying... ‘And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.’ It’s from Genesis 17:3,8. Genesis 13:15 and Exodus 32:13 say pretty much the same thing. But check out Acts 7:5, which says And he gave him none inheritance in it...yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him... Promises, promises, eh? But of course the retraction is in the New Testament, which isn’t recognized by those of the Jewish faith.

No matter, there are lots of lies and changing of God’s mind in the Old Testament:

• God said that Adam would die on the day he ate the apple (Gen 2:16,17), but he didn’t—read Gen 3:17 and Gen 5:3.

• Jehoiakim was told that he wouldn’t have a son (Jer 36:30), but he did—read 2Kings 24:6.

• God promised Jacob that he would return from Egypt (Gen 46:3,4), but he didn’t—he died in Egypt (Gen 49).

• Nebuchadnezzar was to have captured and destroyed Tyre (Ezek 26:3-5,7,10,13-14), but he didn’t (surprise!)—Alexander the Great did.

• ‘I am merciful,’ saith the Lord, ‘and I will not keep anger for ever’ (Jer 3:12); Ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever (Jer 17:4—well, which is it?

• Israel shall rise again (Jer 31:4); Israel shall not rise again (Amos 5:2). She loves me, she loves me not.

• They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me (Prov 1:28); nope, I lied—"They that seek me early shall find me" (Prov 8:17).

• Every living thing that liveth shall be meat for you (Gen 9:3); wait, changed my mind—These shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud or of them that divide the cloven hoof (Deut 14:7).

Need I go on? To start a war on the basis of what God said is about as ridiculous as you can get. It’s quite possible that he lied when he said the land was yours. It’s quite possible that he changed his mind. Give it up!

Don’t misunderstand. I’m not just picking on the Jewish people. I’m picking on anyone foolish enough to claim such supernatural support. ‘God said so’ is not exactly a strong premise for anything, let alone for going to war. ‘Whose God?’ is a reasonable response

Reviews for More Shit that Pisses Me Off

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Book Title: "Shit That Pisses Me Off"Author: Peg TittlePublished By: MagentaAge Recommended: 18 +Reviewed By: Kitty BullardRaven Rating: 5Review: This book had me laughing and had me nodding my head in complete and total agreement with a lot of things Peg Tittle wrote about. When you sit down and think about all the things in life that stumps you or really gets to you, you realize just how insane the world can be! There are so many things out there that often have us scratching our heads as to why people do the things they do and only a few of them are touched on in this delightful, and candidly honest book.I enjoyed it completely and I can't wait to read her next installment which I have the good fortune of knowing it's on its way! So I say to Peg, thank you for the chance to read this informative and honest view of life and what is so wrong with it! I urge others to read this book, there may be some things you don't agree with, but I bet you'll find a lot that you do! If you like blatant honesty with some humor tossed in for fun then you'll love "Shit That Pisses Me Off" by Peg Tittle.