Self Defense, and Writing About It

Self Defense, and Writing About It

Ben Cheah, author of the fantastic No Gods Only Daimons [https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Only-Daimons-Covenant-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B071HHFP3M] , reviews Marc MacYoung’s series on writing about fighting [https://steemit.com/books/@cheah/series-review-writing-violence-by-marc-macyoung] . I believe I’ve mentioned the sitenononsenseselfdefense.com [http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/] before. It’s dated, marginally organized, but utterly invaluable in its insights. > Writing Violence 1: Getting Shoti…

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On Identity

On Identity

One could TL;DR with a snarky “well, duh, you can call a tail a leg but a dog still has five legs”, but Eric Raymond is worth listening to. He had discussed a vapid SJW-infested article on identity where all sides were huffing unicorn paint, but more things came to light, so now there’s a full length post [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7524]. > There was a very silly news story recently about “Claire”, a transsexual “girl” with a penis who complains that she is rejected by straight guys for ‘having…

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