Why 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
View ArticleFemale Chess Legend Dismisses Claim Men Are Wired to Be Better Players
Judit Polgar, one of the world's top chess players, has hit back against a claim by another of the game's stars that men are naturally better chess players. "We are capable of the same fight as any...
View ArticleIn the News: Webster chess coach and pioneer Polgar featured in ESPNW...
(Source: Webster University) Jan. 6, 2017 Fresh off her team's multi-squad domination at the 2016 PanAm InterCollegiate Chess Championship, Webster University chess coach Susan Polgar was profiled in...
View ArticleFighting school sexism: feminist theory hits classrooms
Sixteen-year-old feminist Stella Bridie was sick of being called "bossy" and "bitchy" at school. She sees herself as ambitious and assertive. She's unafraid of asking teachers tough questions, and...
View ArticleSexism And The Media: As Election Heats Up, Are We Nearer To Tipping Point...
At the start of what is likely to be the most important feminist election cycle in American history, the role of women in the media has become a constant topic – yet the percentage of female voices...
View ArticleI am a Snoop Dogg fan. That doesn’t make me less of a feminist
When I first joined the women’s movement, in the late 1970s, I was sneered at for watching romcoms, for preferring dogs to cats, and – as time went on – refusing to go to Greenham Common. (I like a...
View ArticleAfter 26 years at the top, Judit Polgar surpassed by Chinese chess challenger
She hasn't exactly been dethroned, but Hungarian GM Judit Polgar's reign as the ratings queen of women's chess has finally come to an end after an astonishing 26 years of supremacy. Young Chinese...
View ArticleNorwegian keeps chess crown
The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On a dreary, rainy Manhattan night, a huge, happy roar arose in a crowd of chess fans from around the world. Two-time world chess champion, Magnus Carlsen, had just...
View ArticleWorking trip to Budapest (World Chess Federation)
(Source: World Chess Federation) On January 28, the FIDE President during his working trip to Budapest visited the office of the Hungarian Chess Federation where he met with GM Judit...
View ArticleOxford Dictionaries accused of 'sexist' usage examples including 'rabid...
Oxford Dictionaries has agreed to review the language used in its definitions after coming under fire for sexism. The publisher, part of Oxford University Press, currently prints “a rabid feminist” as...
View ArticleCiting neuroscience, a Grandmaster says men are better at chess. Smart move?
Chess master Carissa Yip, who at age 11 became the youngest female ever to defeat a grandmaster, plays a match at the chess club in Billerica, Mass. In a commentary for a chess magazine, British chess...
View ArticleShrill voice of Oxford Dictionary shows grating gender bias
"She's a wild promiscuous good-time girl." Who, you ask. Never mind that: the real question is why. Specifically, why does the Oxford Dictionary have such a misogynistic reflex when it comes to sample...
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