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Travis F W

travisfw@sfba.club

Joined 2 years ago

Nonfiction audio is my main thing. Autobiographies, parenting, science, social issues, and some business or anything educational.

I consider nonfiction to be a healthier and more useful view of the world than the news.

I have a few Mastodon accounts, like @travisfw@fosstodon.org

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Randi Hutter Epstein MD: Aroused (AudiobookFormat, HighBridge Audio) No rating

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.

Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger In a Strange Land (Paperback, 1985, Berkley)

Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert …

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.

Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger In a Strange Land (Paperback, 1985, Berkley)

Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert …

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.

commented on More Than Two by Eve Rickert (More Than Two Essentials)

Eve Rickert, Franklin Veaux, Miguel Vagalume, Andrea Zanin: More Than Two (AudiobookFormat, Thornapple Press) No rating

unabridged audio

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.