Feminists 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 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 ArticleOuting sexism is a growing sport – and a big step for equality
Sister act: tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams. Photograph: Sportsphoto 2014 is a terrible year to be a sexist arsehole. Just ask the president of the Russian Tennis Federation, who was recently...
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 Article6 Female Illustrators Weigh in on Sexism, Feminism and the Newsweek Fiasco
Illustration industry sexism can't silence the female perspective. Sadly, gender disparity is part and parcel of almost every industry on our little blue planet. According to the Bureau of Labor...
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 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 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 ArticleSocial Justice Bullies: The Authoritarianism of Millennial Social Justice
Social justice, as a concept, has existed for millennia — at least as long as society has had inequity and inequality and there were individuals enlightened enough to question this. When we study...
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 ArticleWhy don't men take a stand against sexual villains like Julien Blanc?
The basics of this story are known, too well known, in fact. Julien Blanc, a reptilian American bloke promises to teach men to pull, manipulate and (allegedly) ravage women at will. All for a price, of...
View ArticleWhy don't men stand up against sexual villains like Julien Blanc?
The basics of this story are known, too well known, in fact. Julien Blanc, a reptilian American bloke promises to teach men to pull, manipulate and (allegedly) ravage women at will. All for a price, of...
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 ArticleThe 41st Chess Olympiad: China and Russia claim gold! (World Chess Federation)
(Source: World Chess Federation) China and Russia claim gold! The leaders in both divisions turned up looking confident, the Russian women in particular, who were dressed for success, giving off a...
View ArticleCrazy Ex-Girlfriend’ is a surprisingly complex feminist musical that deserves...
If you aren’t watching The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, that’s probably because it’s on The CW and it’s called Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. But those who dismiss this series based on the title are seriously...
View Article"Amoral masculinity": a theory for understanding Trump from feminist...
"Trump is a reminder of what masculinity can be like outside of conventions." Gender is a cardinal issue in this year’s election. On one side is the first woman to have won the presidential nomination...
View ArticleThe Toxic, Bullying Troll Culture Has Made Much of the Internet Dangerous;...
Click here for reuse options! A dark cultural shift is underway, being shaped by anonymous trolls across the country. “Don’t feed the trolls,” the saying goes, as if it were really that easy. As a...
View ArticleJust because he's smiling doesn't mean he's not sexist
A sexist man is supposed to be easily identified. He is dismissive of female coworkers, makes crude comments about women and openly criticizes the gains of feminism. Yet, a new study shows that sexist...
View Article10 common comments on feminist blogposts – and my responses
Since I founded the Everyday Sexism Project, I have been writing about the abuses that women face: from catcalling to violence. With almost comforting regularity, the same criticisms appear...
View ArticleChess: A great year for India, Sochi notwithstanding
It was the year that saw the young king keep his crown and the queen make her last move. Magnus Carlsen retaining the World championship, at the expense of Viswananthan Anand in Sochi, was widely...
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