Lisa Tuttle

Which was nice, so that was good.

Uh, then I read My Death by Lisa Tuttle, which was, I think I gave it four stars.

That was really good.

Um, then I read Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde, which was just an essay, so it was like, no, but it was, it's published in her collected essays, Sister Outsider, but then it's also published just, like, on its own.

So the inevitable question becomes, how do you herd so many cats? In other words, how do you appease so many self-serving feminists under such broad categories as equality, liberation and emancipation? Unless someone defines what those terms actually mean.

Feminist author Lisa Tuttle.

acknowledges the reality of that conundrum in her book, The Encyclopedia of Feminism, where she writes this, quote, Although the concept of equality as a social good is widely accepted and a major force of this century has been the various struggles and movements to make it a political reality, feminists are not agreed on how it can be realized.

Because no two individuals are alike, equality will always be relative rather than absolute equality.

And every one of the four stands.

stands on the word equality.

Then Lisa Tuttle, in the passage that Daryl read from her own encyclopedia of feminism, conceded that equality will always be relative rather than absolute.

It is so simple that the movement's own scholars cannot say what it means, which is why Daryl asked who gets to define it.

Love that for you.

It's a novella called My Death by Lisa Tuttle.

Yeah.

And I didn't know anything about Lisa Tuttle and so I started reading it, but it turns out that she wrote a very successful sci-fi fantasy series and co-authored with her then lover George R.R. Martin.

Which I. Pardon? Yeah.

In like the 80s.

Wait, what was her name

again?