University Harassment Policy and Its Problems
In its effort to protect its students from potentially awkward social interactions, the university is arrogating adult decision-making to the institution.
Marilyn Simon
Marilyn Simon is a Shakespeare scholar and university instructor. She is working on a book titled, ‘Shakespeare's Gift: Reclaiming the Joy in Erotic Possibility.’
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In Praise of Renoir's Male Gaze
Renoir’s nudes are the evidence of a tirelessly hopeful soul struggling against the dingy reality of the modern world, with its modern industry and its modern warfare, that turns all human flesh into disposable objects, without joy or humanity.
“Unsex Me Here' and Other Bad Ideas
What contemporary feminism fails to adequately grapple with is nature itself, and as a result, feminist attitudes towards men, and particularly towards male sexuality, are compassionless and punitive (not to mention humourless—and human sexuality is so often very funny!).
A Modest Defence of the Missionary Position
The irony is that what we often consider the most boring, the most quotidian, the most comically old-fashioned, and unremarkably ordinary way to have sex with another is also the way we encounter our deepest selves because we transcend ourselves to find union with another.
#NotMe: On Harassment, Empowerment, and Feminine Virtue
My feminine virtue, traditionally understood, allowed me to control men.
Feminism's Dependency Trap
Unintended and painful irony of recent feminism’s preoccupation with overcoming male oppression has been to place men at the centre of female identity.