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Peg Tittle

Peg Tittle is an author (also writing as Jass Richards and Chris Wind) and hosts the blog Hell Yeah, I'm a Feminist! Most of her books are available for download, free, at her websites.

Permitting Abortion and Prohibiting Prenatal Harm

Permitting Abortion and Prohibiting Prenatal Harm

I think abortion should be allowed. And I think prenatal harm (especially that caused by ingesting various legal and illegal substances while pregnant) should not be allowed. Some accuse me of hypocrisy or, more accurately, maintaining a contradictory position: either women have the right to control what happens to their

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

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

Motherhood is unfair to women in a way fatherhood most definitely is not. Not only are there the physical risks (pregnancy and childbirth puts a woman at risk for nausea, fatigue, backaches, headaches, skin rashes, changes in her sense of smell and taste, chemical imbalances, high blood pressure, diabetes, anemia,

Another reason to hate men

Another reason to hate men

"By 2050 at the latest, and ideally before 2040, we must have stopped emitting more greenhouse gases [typically caused by the burning of fossil fuels] into the atmosphere than Earth can naturally absorb through its ecosystems (a balance known as net-zero emissions or carbon neutrality). In order to get to

Sterilization: The Personal and the Political

Sterilization: The Personal and the Political

Ever since I’ve been old enough to ask myself 'Do I want children?', my answer has been 'No' – a rather emphatic 'No!' I consider parenting to be a career, and a very demanding one at that: twenty-four hours a day for at least fourteen years, you are

Solo Women's Invisible Economic Expenses

Solo Women's Invisible Economic Expenses

It really hit home when my father gave me twenty bucks for a pizza, his treat. As if I were a teenager. Instead of a 50-year-old woman with a mortgage to pay, property taxes, and monthly bills for oil, electricity, phone, internet, tv, house insurance, car insurance… Amazing. He was

Smile!

Smile!

If I had a dollar for every time someone (i.e., a man) told me to smile, I'd be rich. (And if I had five dollars for every time that same someone did not tell a man to smile, I'd be really rich.) Why is it that women are told,

Sexism and Teaching: The Elephant in the Room

Sexism and Teaching: The Elephant in the Room

Back in 1996, I was fortunate enough to get a job teaching a few courses at a university: several sections of a non-credit remedial English language course, a section of critical thinking, and various applied ethics courses. At the end of the second year, I was notified by the Dean