Patriarchy is Other Men: Why ‘Why Courageous Clementine Ford Is Not The...
New Matilda has been swamped with submissions about yesterday’s article on Clementine Ford. This is the first of a series we’ll publish over the next few days, and is written by Lifted Brow co-editor...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleThe Modern Feminist Rejection of Constitutional Government (The Heritage...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) August 8, 2016 | First Principles Series Report on Political Thought By Christina Villegas Many people assume that it is modern feminism, not the Constitution, that...
View ArticleMcCarthyite Anti-Semitism Smears and Racism at the Guardian/Observer
I Over the last few years, and as the corporate neoliberal project has started to unravel, the Guardian/Observer news stable has devoted a considerable amount of space to smears on re-emerging...
View ArticleVoting for Hillary Because of Her Gender Doesn't Make You a Good...
Sanders is better than Clinton not only on economic issues, but also on reproductive choice and gay rights. The following is an excerpt from the new book False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary...
View ArticleStand Up For Heresy
A review of The New Philistines: How Identity Politics Disfigure the Arts by Sohrab Ahmari. Biteback Publishing, (October 16, 2016) 128 pages. Postmodernism might have had a liberating effect on the...
View ArticleCamille Paglia on Hugh Hefner's Legacy, Trump's Masculinity and Feminism's...
The pro-sex feminist, cultural critic and author tells THR why Hef's art of seduction is needed today and how Gloria Steinem is not a role model for young women. With the death of Playboy founder Hugh...
View ArticleIrish women on Trump’s win: ‘America will be great, but for who? Not for women’
What does the election of Donald Trump as US President say about women? I’m still in shock and find it hard to articulate how I feel, which is probably mostly fear and a total absence of hope. I’ve...
View ArticleFeminists treat men badly and it's bad for feminism
Feminist male-bashing has come to sound like a cliche – a misogynist caricature. Feminism, its loudest proponents vow, is about fighting for equality. The man-hating label is either a smear or a...
View ArticleFeminazi: the go-to term for trolls out to silence women
Last week, a young female barrister was called a ‘feminazi’ after complaining about a sexist message sent via LinkedIn. How did this clunky bit of wordplay become so widespread – and could it ever be...
View ArticleWhy Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?
One weekday morning in 2007, Bethanye Blount came into work early to interview a job applicant. A veteran software engineer then in her 30s, Blount held a senior position at the company that runs...
View ArticleGeena Davis: ‘After Thelma & Louise, people said things would improve for...
Having built a career playing strong women, the Hollywood star is taking on sexism in the film industry, with a gender equality project that will launch at this year’s London film festival...
View ArticleWhat men's rights activists and other "anti-feminist" men have in common with...
Sarah Wasko / Media Matters “Anti-feminist” forces, including men’s rights activists, have “embraced misogyny as ideology” The men’s rights movement is the brainchild of a former prominent feminist. As...
View ArticleThe Google Memo: The Economist On Nothing
Most of the debate about James Damore’s memo has focused on its claims about gender, diversity, and affirmative action. Those themes were indeed central to the purpose of the memo. But also important...
View ArticleThe Left’s Abandonment of Females
Politics revolves around what is seen and what can be said about it, around who has the ability to see and the talent to speak, around the properties of spaces and the possibilities of time. – Jacques...
View ArticleMake America Great Again: how progressives can reach rural America — and how...
The left must not compromise on its ideals, but it needs to get better at witnessing to the unconverted. When I go home to South Dakota to visit my family, I speak two languages. One is the language of...
View ArticleProspects for an Alt-Left
The day of Donald Trump’s election to the office of US President should be remembered as “the day that the liberal elite of the American coasts learned of a world outside its Facebook feed”, according...
View ArticleEveryday Sexism in a 'Post-Feminist' World
For the past two decades, “girl power” has become a popular way of describing the success of girls in American culture. Widespread reports of “alpha girls”—girls who can do it all, find popularity,...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of #FreeStacy?
In an age of lies, the truth is dangerous. When Twitter announced the creation of a “Trust and Safety Council” last month, every intelligent observer understood that censorship would be the result. The...
View ArticleA Feminist's Guide to Critiquing Hillary Clinton
Fair warning: This blog is not going to be angry. It will not be written in all caps. There will be no vulgarity. And it probably won't go viral. I don't care. What I do care about is the fact I've...
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