When boys don’t read stories with strong, smart, or otherwise incredible women, it seeps into their brains that these women don’t exist. When they are not taught that they can look up to women, they don’t. This is poisonous to society.
– Jeremy Whitley
Tag: society
Quotable 50
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
Fiction: Politeness
On such a warm, beautiful spring day, Cal didn’t care to be cooped up in his office one minute more than necessary. A vendor provided a couple of hot dogs and a cold drink, and Cal found an empty park bench and made himself at home. He used his left hand for his meal and held his smartphone in his right hand, checking his messages.
As Cal was halfway through his second hot dog, he suddenly found a gun in his face. The young man wielding the gun snatched Cal’s phone and ran off with it, shouting, “Thanks, man!”
With his newly free hand, Cal reached into his jacket. He yanked out his revolver and fired two shots. The thief spilled to the ground, still clutching the phone.
“You’re welcome,” Cal yelled.
Dad was right, he thought. “An armed society is a polite society.”