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Amanda Marcotte

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Also known as Amanda Marie Marcotte

American blogger (born 1977)

Person · Open Library

Works
3

Top works

  • Troll nation
  • Get opinionated
  • It's a jungle out there

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
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Listeners
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Total plays
851

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Quotes

  • Gun-owning is a largely male phenomenon in the US. Forty-five percent of American men own guns while only 15% of women do. Sixty percent of adults with guns in America are white men, even though white men are just one third of the US population. Despite some attempts by gun lobbyists and marketers to try to sell more guns to women, the fact of the matter is that gun-owning isn't really about "safety" and "crime", so much as it's a very costly form of identity politics.
  • The council did find one exception to the rule: Childless couples who said they were committed to equality did split chores evenly. But when baby came, the women in these once-balanced relationships got a raw deal; not only did New Mom do more domestic work than New Dad, but New Dad did five fewer hours of housework per week than before he became a father.The implications are clear: When faced with the pressures of raising a family, couples backslide into traditional gender roles.
  • Trump's behavior may have been on the high end of the shitty male behavior spectrum, but it still falls within the parameters of what a lot of people are socialized to accept, especially when the bully is rich and powerful like Trump. He, like many men who behave the way he does, gets away with it because far too many people believe that being a bad-tempered thug is just what being a man is about.
  • Cats love to have you around, but won't come unglued if you're not around to clean up after them for a few hours. If only more men could be like cats!

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