MERRY CLARK

did seem like a lot of bragging and toxic positivity

Revisado: 08-20-23

Sure aging might be great for people with money who live in major cities,

What about women who are living alone in the middle of nowhere on a small income?

There’s too much talk here on things you can do with all of your money and things you can do with your friends and family that are not possible for a solo rural woman w no children

and a lot of denial about the realities of aging

She appears to be talking about boomers with money.

Can’t relate

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I am still trying to understand the 80s

Revisado: 08-14-23

This reminded me of a lot of what made the 1980s very difficult for me. I was in college most of that time and I was afraid of men. I knew what Reagan was saying. I knew what the political climate was about and I wanted to hide from it. At least I was in a liberal town: Ann Arbor, Michigan. I fought my fears by wandering campus after dark on purpose. But I was petrified of going to any kind of social gathering.

At the end of the book she writes about how the 90s should be the decade of the woman. It seems we take two steps forward and one step back. We take a leap sometimes, but only in response to huge setbacks like the loss of Roe. I wonder if Susan could have predicted Trump and this Supreme Court.

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We need more books like this.

Revisado: 09-26-22

True story, courtroom drama, environmental issue—yes like Civil Action and Erin Brockovich but more than that— it’s about environmental justice. People of color and the poor have always been shoved onto undesirable real estate. And confined animal feeding operations have to go somewhere; it’s not like they’re going to put them in the middle of Beverly Hills.

The connection to appropriate reparations for harm done to people of color is weaved throughout the plot. Atticus Finch even came to my mind during the court trial. The people in this book had ancestors who were enslaved and now white farmers were saying that they didn’t have to respect their property rights. Their right to farm, in their mind, is more important than their neighbors’ right to enjoy their property.

What if that neighbor was the governor?

This story is well told, with description that transports the reader to any location the author wishes. character description is also spot on and the reader starts to imagine various stars who might be cast in these roles.

I love a book with a mission.

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Cassopolis Michigan

Revisado: 07-18-22

I started out school in a little town called Edwardsburg Michigan where almost everyone was white. I was best friends with one of the black girls and also with a girl who may have been Native American but I believe she was from Mexico and she was a migrant worker. Their names were Clydet and Susana.
then when I started high school we moved to a town called Cassopolis Michigan, about 10 miles away from Edwardsburg, in the next Township.

I graduated from high school in this small town in 1984.

40%of the student population of 500 were Black, some of my best friends were Black.

But while going to school in Ann Arbor Michigan for five years and living in Boulder Colorado for five years, I did not see one POC anywhere. So when it came time for me to do my student teaching to become an English teacher, I opted for inner-city Denver and wound up in a classroom that was ALL Black. No diversity whatsoever. This was an eye-opening experience for me that made me realize nothing was really that different in terms of segregation in this country since the 1950s.

This book highlighted what I have sensed all along in life, that as a white person I have been taught that it’s not safe to live in black neighborhoods and I was also taught that I better marry a rich man and I don’t think for one second anybody thought they were talking about a Black man. I don’t think I ever even thought of dating a Black man.

Capitalism drills that zero-sum game into all of us. We don’t have a community, we just have competition. We don’t have friends, we just have threats.

Dear Tucker
Human rights are an American value.
We all value clean air, clean water, and communities where we can actually survive and thrive.

thank you Heather McGhee

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People need to know

Revisado: 04-05-22

This information needs to get out into the public

People are buying organic thinking that it’s really ORGANIC and they want to KNOW that they aren’t buying some imposter crap

why are we paying the higher prices unless it is actually better and the animals are treated the way they should be?

It’s all because corporate America wants to make more money and be an imposter in order to do it.

My mother was on the National Organic Standards Board in 1992 and there were people there literally taking her aside in a hallway and asking her “now what about pesticides?” and she just thought
what about pesticides? This is about organic standards.

she almost wanted to give up
but then she thought “no I can’t let THEM take over”

The rules HAVE to be enforced.
Big Ag only believes in one thing: big profits

Jon Tester for President! But first
run the USDA.

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Sylvia Plath was a great loss.

Revisado: 12-21-21

She would’ve been a great President, but her artistic sensibility probably would have gotten in the way, which is unfortunate. The most passionate, creative women do not usually choose politics as a field of endeavor. This is our ongoing loss as a civilization.

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Oh my Gosh

Revisado: 11-27-21

I love the talk about mortality and longevity.
Maybe say “oh my gosh” a little less often.
Also great to talk about how hard it is to get up in front of people and talk about uncomfortable subjects.

This is the best thing about comedy.

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“The skyboxification of American life”

Revisado: 04-25-21

I love how this guy thinks and the fact that it sounds like he’s got a couple of morals running around in his head. The most important point he makes is that the market does not honor anything but itself. But this is the trend in America—everything for sale. That’s capitalism!

If everything is for sale, then nothing is sacred.

Money corrupts.

I know. It’s nothing new.

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sShe almost made me ashamed to call myself a feminist.

Revisado: 03-22-21

I like to think that I am one of those white women who can relate the most to being black because I have not been very privileged. Of course privilege is a relative concept. I had the privilege of attending the University of Michigan for example, but I feel like I earned that because I got accepted.

But there I go again making it all about me.

And I totally get that this is the problem with feminism. I really thought that feminists cared about all women, not just white women. I thought that feminism understood that poverty affects too many women of color, therefore economic equity is a feminist issue. But this author shows that this is not actually the case.

This author made it out of the hood. A person might argue, “Well if she can do it, then everyone can do it.” This author has published this book and it has become famous. Again, if she can do it, then everyone can do it. I have tried and I have not reached the level of success that she has and I am white. There is a certain constellation of conditions that must somehow align for success in life. To somehow believe that this set of conditions can be in existence for absolutely anyone is absurd. Add in race and it becomes that much harder

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The male is the default human

Revisado: 11-01-20

This book analyzes all of the many many ways that male data is collected and utilized but female data is not even measured, much less utilized. Women are treated as the “other” and as such, are too complicated to measure or keep track of.

The author uses the phrase “gender disaggregated data” repeatedly when she might want to use somewhat less academic language.

I listened to it on a slower speed as the author narrates fairly quickly. Maybe it’s my age but I like to have a little more time to digest all the data to which she refers, and she refers to a large amount of data, or rather points out the lack of it, in so many instances of human life. And many of these instances are matters of life and death.

For example, did you know that cars are primarily designed around the male body?

Men tend to forget that women are half the human race, but somehow women do not forget this.

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