Reviews and Comments

2017? How did I miss this?

Context for Cory Doctorow's Enshittification @emmecola@mastodon.uno @pluralistic@mamot.fr

I would hope endocrinology has made significant advances since this third edition in 2004, but this looks like a significant book anyway.

Halfway through I have lost interest. Too much sexism and toxic masculinity.

Since I was forced to take ritalin for five years of my chirdhood my endocrine system has been fucked. I have always been at a loss to describe these challenges, and learning about it has always taken a back seat to higher priorities like major depression and paying bills and PTSD triggers. But I have learned that some amino acid supplements can be really helpful at the right times (when I'm deficient) and it is time for me to tackle this. Maybe gain some insight into anhedonia while I am at it.

When #Heinlein illustrated the Martian's maturity by having him kill someone and then have sex, and then go out on his own, and subsequently had the main female character say something victim blaming about rape, my interest in this book dropped to little more than a poorly substantiated drive to finish what I start.

Recommended to me

I certainly enjoyed the last book of his I read.

this is very nicely written and narrated. i am enjoying it very much.

My partner wants to read this to me. Holding up pretty well, except for some tired sexist tropes (nothing too horrific … what do I expect from 40+ years), Heinlein's failure to predict cell phones, and the successful missions to Mars in recent decades. Still quite a few good lines and thought provoking scenarios.

a good long list of #favoriteThings in an appendix in the back. Thank you, Ross Gay.

Essay 80, "To Respect Each Others' Madness, and Right to be Wrong," is excellent.

I really appreciate very much of the principles and goals of the managerial methods described in here. It's about as close as corporate hierarchy gets to making sense.

good to occasionally review the bleeding edge of modern medicine

I have come to appreciate, through this book, the "ethical" in #ENM. Before, I thought it was simply a necessary defense against the seemingly ubiquitous critical assumption that anything other than monogamy is unethical. But as I have listened, I have realized that, of course, #ethics drives the whole movement, and ethics circumscribes mononormativity, and ethical questions are the substance of every individual's decisions about how to love the people they love. It's all ethics! Honestly, maybe ENM could be defined as the ethical study of love and family, and the cultural practices framing them.