Book Review of Lalonde, Julie S. (2020). Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde. Toronto: Between the Lines.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Life and Death of Julie S. Lalonde" by Julie S. Lalonde is a book that illustrates the experience of what happens before, during, and after the toxic cycle of abuse from the position of the victim.In her book, Lalonde outlines how her abusive relationship did not start that way, which was critical for her abuser, Xander, to maintain his grip on her.She delves into the complexities of trauma from loving and resenting her abuser and how this trauma continues after the relationship ends.Lalonde actively fought the occurrence of abuse and provided support to victims, all while being abused and stalked.She details the difficulty of maintaining her sanity while relentlessly being gaslit and manipulated.There is a feminist approach to this book where she exposes the prevalence of gender inequality in society and how it leads to the further oppression of women.Lalonde's personal story exhibits the interconnectedness of abuse through the themes of shame, power, injustice, self-preservation, and culture.The feminist approach taken by Lalonde criticizes how society contributes and normalizes abuse towards women.She recalls how, as a society, "[w]e teach girls from a young age to take cruelty from boys as a compliment.We teach boys from a young age to shroud their affection in brutality" (p.8).Her previous notion explains how, by justifying and belittling the harm girls
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.036 | 0.023 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".