Still More Shit that Pisses Me off

By Peg Tittle

Pregnant men, paying stay-at-home moms, advertising, income tax deductions, people skills, boy books, speech codes, porn, god, testicular battery and tranquilizer guns, the Academy Awards, intelligent design and evolution...

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: Jan 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9781926891323

Peg Tittle

Peg Tittle is the author of several novels: Fighting Words: notes for a future we won't have (Magenta), Jess (Magenta), Gender Fraud: a fiction (Magenta), Impact (Magenta), It Wasn't Enough (Magenta), What Happened to Tom (Inanna), and Exile (Rock's Mills Press). Both Gender Fraud: a fiction and It Wasn't Enough were Finalists in the Eric Hoffer 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 was produced 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 ("TransGendered Courage" received 35,000 hits, making it #3 of the year, and "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.Her short commentary pieces have also been published in Humanist in Canada, Links, Inroads, Elenchus, Forum, and The Humanist. Her longer pieces have appeared in Free Inquiry, The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, New Humanist, The New Zealand Rationalist, The Humanist, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, and Sexuality & Culture: an interdisciplinary journal. And she's had a list published at McSweeney's ("Why Feminist Manuscripts Aren't Getting Published Today"). She 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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STILL MORE SHIT THAT PISSES ME OFF

by

Peg Tittle

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Published by:

Magenta

Still More Shit that Pisses Me Off

Copyright 2012 by Peg Tittle

www.pegtittle.com

Cover design by Donna Casey based on a concept by Peg Tittle

Thanks to Ben for the series title

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Acknowledgements

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Also by Peg Tittle

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. To Wail Like a Brat—and Advertise

2. Income Tax Deductions: Financial Reward for Dependence and Replication

3. Entertain me. Hurt him.

4. Paying Stay-at-Home Moms

5. No People Skills. And proud of it.

6. What’s so funny about a man getting pregnant?

7. Poor Little Kids

8. Dolly—what’s in a name.

9. A Gold Watch

10. Porn’s Harmless and Pigs Fly

11. God: The Quintessential Dead-Beat Dad

12. Boy Books

13. The Part-time Ghetto

14. The Gender of Business

15. Better than Speech Codes

16. Men’s Precision Teams

17. Dr. Frankenstein, meet Dr. Spock

18. Testicular Battery and Tranquilizer Guns (what the world needs now is)

19. Comedown

20. The Academy Awards: Separate and Not Equal

21. Transgendered Courage

22. Population Growth (i.e, rape)

23. In Praise of AIDS

24. Politics in Government: The Problem with Representation

25. Intelligent Design vs. Evolution

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To Wail like a Brat—and Advertise

On what basis do ‘you’ claim the right to publicize your desire for money—at my expense? You use forests full of trees for unsolicited mailouts, you produce and then dump tons of nonbiodegradable plastic for oversized packaging, you destroy beautiful landscapes with your signs, and you intrude on my consciousness with your insistent voice—all because you want me to buy your product or service so you can make some money.

Listings in directories—by category of product, service, and so on—should be free of charge; in fact, they are, for many online directories. When we want to purchase something, we’ll find you