Should you need a license in order to become a parent? What's wrong with calling people Ms. and Mr.? Why is casual day at the office insulting? Why should you take down the flag? Is women's fiction really women's fiction? Should we have professional jurors? Why should you boycott marriage? Why shouldn't athletes take performance-enhancing drugs?Philosophy with attitude.Because the unexamined life is dangerous.Note: All of the pieces in the Shit that Pisses Me Off se...

What if one day, all of the women suddenly disappeared, leaving the men to take their places, fill their roles, do what they did. What would happen? How would the men react?CATEGORY FINALIST IN THE ERIC HOFFER AWARD COMPETITION*"Unlike far too many novels, this one will make you think, make you uncomfortable, and then make you reread it …. " C. Osborne"I bought this today and just finished reading it (I couldn't stop btw). It's amazing, powerful, sad, devast...

Should you need a license in order to become a parent? What's wrong with calling people Ms. and Mr.? Why is casual day at the office insulting? Why should you take down the flag? Is women's fiction really women's fiction? Should we have professional jurors? Why should you boycott marriage? Why shouldn't athletes take performance-enhancing drugs?Philosophy with attitude.Because the unexamined life is dangerous.*Note: All of the pieces in the Shit that Pisses ...

In a near-future*, this* is the three-strike law:First offence: rehabilitationSecond offence: prisonThird offence: exileYou don't want to live by our rules? Fine. Go. Make your own rules.LJ has just committed his third offence.A novel about crime, punishment, and the social contract.*"Thought-provoking stuff, as usual from Peg Tittle." James M. Fisher, The Miramichi Reader

Written by a top-tier now-retired tutor, the "LR Fundamentals" alone make this short and easy-to-follow guide well worth the purchase; the "RC Fundamentals" and notes about speed, stamina, and practice are welcome extras.*Peg Tittle (M.A. Philosophy; B.A. Literature; B.Ed) previously worked at LSAC writing the questions that go onto the test; she is also the author of Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason (Routledge, 2011).*"Hearing Peg think out l...

Fact-driven speculative fiction.What could've been. What should've been.A collection of 18 stand-alone, but related, pieces: Damages, Home for Unwed Fathers, Fighting Words, Comedown, What Sane Man, Sweet Sixteen, Ballsy, Justified, It's a Boy, Men Need Sex, How We Survived, The Knitting Group, The Mars Colonies, A PostTrans PostPandemic World, Unless, Alleviation, The Women's Party, My Last Year*"[A] brain-slap of speculative fiction ... 18 stand-alone gren...

A collection of think pieces on a variety of topics: the environment (the notion of garbage, who owns the water, climate change as entertainment, … ), business (the limits of advertising, the notion of profit, …), rights and responsibilities (making certain words illegal, a concept of noise trespass, …), social issues (cultural anarchy, … ), ethics (what's wrong with selling your organs, euthanasia, should parents need to be licensed, …), education (the failure of …), sports (drugs, compet...

Jess used to be a man. Then he found himself in a female body. It wasn't funny. Why would anyone even think it was?*There's a scene in Tootsie (1982) that is surely one of the most unacclaimed scenes of all time: Dustin Hoffman's character, Michael, as 'Dorothy', makes a suggestion on the set, and the director dismisses it out of hand. As I remember it, Hoffman's face—conveying surprise, confusion, indignation—shows perfectly Michael's reaction to the absence of (and, just ...

The title says it all. A collection of close to two hundred exposés and analyses of everyday sexist shit (and gender shit, since gender is aligned with sex) that pisses me off. Includes "Mr. and Ms.", "Marriage: A Sexist Affair", "Smile!", "An End to War", "Take Her Seriously", "Why Do Men Spit?", "On Getting Paid (or not)", "On Crying 'Rape' for Regret", "Did Men Invent This?" and many, many more.Includes pieces previously published in The Philosophers' Magazine, Philosophy Now, H...

What if one day, all of the women suddenly disappeared, leaving the men to take their places, fill their roles, do what they did. What would happen? How would the men react?CATEGORY FINALIST FOR THE ERIC HOFFER AWARD 2021*"Unlike far too many novels, this one will make you think, make you uncomfortable, and then make you reread it .... " C. Osborne moonspeaker.ca"I bought this today and just finished reading it (I couldn't stop btw). It's amazing, powerful, ...

What do women want? To understand why. And so a rape victim confronts her assailants, asking them, pushing them, to explain why they did what they did. It does not go as expected.A must-read for men and women alike.*"Edgy, insightful, terrific writing, propelled by rage against rape. Tittle writes in a fast-paced, dialogue-driven style that hurtles the reader from one confrontation to the next. Chock full of painful social observations …. " Hank Pellissier, Director...

In a near-future, 'gender recognition' legislation is repealed, and it becomes illegal for males to identify as females and females to identify as males. However, due in part to the continued conflation of sex and gender and in part to the insistence that gender align with sex, it also becomes illegal for males to be feminine and females to be masculine. A gender identity dystopia.Category Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Award competition 2021*"A little bit of ...