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    Shit that Pisses Me Off
    Shit that Pisses Me Off
    Shit that Pisses Me Off
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    Shit that Pisses Me Off

    By Peg Tittle

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    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.

    "... smart, witty essays that challenge the intellect ... her razor sharp words will slice and dice the cerebral jugular." Laura Salkin, thinkspin

    "... It's all thought-provoking, and whether or not you'll end up agreeing with her conclusions, her essays make for fascinating reading." Erin O'Riordan

    "Tittle’s pieces are atypical of philosophical writing in the best ways: of interest to non-specialists, yet instructive and profound, yet entertaining." Ron Cooper, Professor of Philosophy

    "... a passionate, stylistically-engaging writer ..." George
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateNov 1, 2011
    ISBN9781926891309
    Shit that Pisses Me Off
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    Peg Tittle

    Peg Tittle is the author of several novels: Fighting Words: notes for a future we won't have (Magenta, 2022), Jess (Magenta, 2022), Gender Fraud: a fiction (Magenta, 2020), Impact (Magenta, 2020), It Wasn't Enough (Magenta, 2020), What Happened to Tom (Inanna, 2016), and Exile (Rock's Mills Press, 2018). Both Gender Fraud: a fiction and It Wasn't Enough were Category Finalists in the Eric Hoffer Book Award competition; What Happened to Tom is on goodreads' list of Fiction Books That Opened Your Eyes To A Social Or Political Issue.Her screenplays (including What Happened to Tom and Exile) have placed in several competitions, including Moondance, Fade-In, GimmeCredit, WriteMovies, Scriptapalooza, and American Gem. Aiding the Enemy has been produced as a short by David McDonald.She has also written several nonfiction books: Just Think About It (Magenta); Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off (Magenta); Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason (Routledge); Should Parents Be Licensed? Debating the Issues (Prometheus); What If? Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy (Longman); Ethical Issues in Business: Inquiries, Cases, and Readings (Broadview).She was a columnist for the Ethics and Emerging Technologies website for a year (her "TransGendered Courage” received 35,000 hits, making it #3 of the year, and her “Ethics without Philosophers” received 34,000 hits, making it #5 of the year), The Philosopher Magazine's online philosophy café for eight years, and Philosophy Now for two years. In addition, her short commentary pieces have also been published in Humanist in Canada, Links, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Inroads, Elenchus, South Australian Humanist Post, Forum, and The Humanist. Her longer pieces have appeared in Free Inquiry, The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, New Humanist, The New Zealand Rationalist and Humanist, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Sexuality & Culture: an interdisciplinary journal. And she's had a list published at McSweeney's (“Why Feminist Manuscripts Aren’t Getting Published Today”). She now blogs (sporadically) at pegtittle.com and hellyeahimafeminist.com.She has an M.A. in Philosophy, a B.Ed., and a B.A. in Literature, and has received over twenty Arts Council grants.

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      Shit that Pisses Me Off - Peg Tittle

      SHIT THAT PISSES ME OFF

      by

      Peg Tittle

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      Shit That Pisses Me Off

      Copyright 2011 by Peg Tittle

      www.pegtittle.com

      Cover design by Donna Casey based on a concept by Peg Tittle

      Thanks to Ben for the title

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

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      Also by Peg Tittle

      Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason

      What If…Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy

      Should Parents be Licensed? Debating the Issues

      Ethical Issues in Business—Inquiries, Cases, and Readings

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      Contents

      You Oughtta Need a Licence for That

      What’s in a Flag?

      Casual Day at the Office

      Drugs and Sports—What’s the Problem?

      Mr. and Ms.

      Profit and Loss—and Marbles

      I’m not a feminist.

      On Demonstrations

      An End to War

      The Weather Report

      Women’s Fiction

      In Commemoration of the Holocaust

      Hockey Brawls and other Cockfights

      A New Three-Strike Law

      Bang Bang

      Who Owns (the) Land?

      The Good Wife

      Why Don’t We Have Professional Jurors?

      Bambi’s Cousin’s Gonna Tear You Apart

      Being There

      Marriage: a Sexist Affair

      I’m too drunk. No I’m not.

      From Romeo and Juliet to ‘Ass’ and ‘Hole’

      Kids Behind the Wheel

      Short Men

      Acknowledgements:

      You Oughtta Need a Licence for That

      We have successfully cloned a sheep; it’s not unreasonable, then, to believe we may soon be able to create human life. Despite Frankenstein visions of a brave new world, I’m sure we’ll develop carefully considered policies and procedures to regulate the activity.

      For example, I doubt we’ll allow someone to create his own private workforce or his own little army.

      And I suspect we’ll prohibit cloning oneself for mere ego gratification.

      Doing it just because it’s fun will certainly be illegal. And I expect it won’t even be imaginable to do it ‘without really thinking about it’, let alone ‘by accident’.

      I suspect we’ll enforce some sort of quality control, such that cloned human beings shall not exist in pain or be severely ‘compromised’ with respect to basic biological or biochemical functioning.

      And I suspect one will have to apply for a license and satisfy rigorous screening standards. I assume this will include the submission, and approval, of a detailed plan regarding responsibility for the cloned human being; surely we won’t allow a scientist to create it and then just leave it on the lab’s doorstep one night when he leaves.

      Thing is, we can already create human life. Kids and addicts do it every day.

      And though we’ve talked ourselves silly and tied ourselves in knots about ending life—active, passive, voluntary, coerced, premeditated, accidental, negligent—we’ve been horrendously silent, irresponsibly laissez-faire, about beginning life.

      We wouldn’t accept such wanton creation of life if it happened in the lab. Why do we condone it when it happens in bedrooms and backseats?

      It should be illegal to create life, to have kids, in order to have another pair of hands at work in the field or to have someone to look after you in your old age.

      It should be illegal to create a John Doe Junior to carry on the family name/business.

      It should be illegal to have kids because, well, it just sort of happened, you didn’t really think about it.

      And it isn’t possible to create life ‘by accident’—men don’t accidentally ejaculate into vaginas and women don’t accidentally catch ejaculate with their vaginas. (As

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