The Gospel According to Disney; Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust, by Mark I. Pinsky — 791.43 Pi
Religion journalist Mark Pinsky explores the role that the animated features of Walt Disney played on the moral and spiritual development of generations of children. Pinsky explores thirty-one of the most popular Disney films.
The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics, by Bernard Knox — 380.9 Kn
Should the ancient Greeks―”the oldest dead white European males”―be kept alive in our collective memory? Why study them at all if, by passing their destructive ideas to the Ro-mans and eventually to the rest of Europe, they may ultimately be responsible for much of what’s wrong with American society? Knox poses and answers such fundamental questions, helping us to remember the astonishing originality of the ancient Greeks and all that we have learned―and continue to learn―from them.
Ejaculate Responsibly; a Whole New Way to Think about Abortion, by Gabrielle Blair 363.96 Bl
In a series of 28 brief arguments, Blair deftly makes the case for moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating women’s bodies and instead directs the focus on men’s lack of accountability in preventing unwanted pregnancies.
Highly readable, accessible, funny, and unflinching, Blair builds her argument by walking readers through the basics of fertility (men are 50 times more fertile than women), the unfair burden placed on women when it comes to preventing pregnancy (90% of the birth control market is for women), the wrongheaded stigmas around birth control for men (condoms make sex less pleasurable, vasectomies are scary and emasculating), and the counterintuitive reality that men, who are fertile 100% of the time, take little to no responsibility for preventing pregnancy.
It Could Always Be Worse, by Margot Zemach — RE 398.27 Ze
Once upon a time a poor unfortunate man lived with his mother, his wife, and his six children in a one-room hut. Because they were so crowded, the children often fought and the man and his wife argued. When the poor man was unable to stand it any longer, he ran to the Rabbi for help. As he follows the Rabbi’s unlikely advice, the poor man’s life goes from bad to worse, with increasingly uproarious results.
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