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   Mr. Bill (bmacdonald94@hostux.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 01:42:42 JST Mr. Bill

   “To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”

   Christopher Hitchens

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     Mr. Bill (bmacdonald94@hostux.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 01:59:39 JST Mr. Bill

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     • Carolannie

     @carolannie I found him a refreshing free thinker. He left too soon. 💕

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     Carolannie (carolannie@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 01:59:40 JST Carolannie

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     @bmacDonald94 ahem. I don't know that Hitchens is a good example

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     Mr. Bill (bmacdonald94@hostux.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 02:24:18 JST Mr. Bill

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     • Carolannie

     @carolannie ~ I read him differently, but I will look further. Thank you for the information. 💕

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     Carolannie (carolannie@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 02:24:19 JST Carolannie

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     @bmacDonald94 he was a misogynist who claimed women can't be funny and aren't creative. He was a pretty standard upper class Brit

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     Mr. Bill (bmacdonald94@hostux.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 02:31:15 JST Mr. Bill

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     • Carolannie

     @carolannie ~ Thank you. I glanced at some of the work you referenced and will not use him again. That is sad, his work on uncovering the evils of Mother Theresa is journalism at it's best. 💕

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     Carolannie (carolannie@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 03:27:06 JST Carolannie

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     @bmacDonald94 That's a problem with no solution that I know of! (tl:dr the best authors etc are often not uniformly good people)
     *Steps on soapbox*
     Look at how Tolstoy treated his family, or Dickens, or Ghandi! I would still read them or consider their good work valid while still condemning their awfulness as family people. One of my favorites is E. F. Schumacher: he had great ideas! but he seemed to think women should be doing all household tasks while men went about happily living in a small beautiful world. Or the writer Wendell Berry: he writes great stuff! But I met him and then he made a presentation where he claimed that women are "more earthy, more in touch with the body and its functions and more tied to nature's cycle" which is at best a gross generalization and also a mindset that allows women to be excluded from less earthy thoughts. ARGH!
     *So now I'll get off my soapbox*

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     Mr. Bill (bmacdonald94@hostux.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 03:28:44 JST Mr. Bill

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     • Carolannie

     @carolannie ~ Alas, the failings of Patriarchy. Some improve with age while others remain as emotional toddlers. Thanks for the information. 💕