Why Feminists Must Understand Evolution
If our common goal is to encourage reciprocal respect for other individuals, in spite of average differences in group proclivities.
Marta Iglesias
· 14 min read
Feminism
A collection of 232 posts
Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and Violence
We should work to devise effective solutions to continue that progress, rather resorting to using all men as scapegoats for the violence that remains.
Gideon Scopes
· 14 min read
Sweden's Sexual Assault Crisis Presents a Feminist Paradox
Such levels of gang violence are without parallel in Sweden’s modern history. And with police busy dealing with gang murders and shootings, rape victims wait for justice.
Paulina Neuding
· 8 min read
The Germaine Greer-Emma Dilemma
Greer herself emphasized this point in drawing a distinction between “reform” feminism and “revolutionary” feminism.
Steven C Munson
· 10 min read
Smearing Free Thought in Silicon Valley
Damore stresses that these are differences at a statistical level between large populations and that we should not assume that they are descriptive of any particular individual.
Gideon Scopes
· 8 min read
The Brain's Trust — Intersectionality, Nadia Chan, and Munroe Bergdorf
These might be two separate and superficially different incidents, but they are qualitatively very similar and underline the same cultural tensions that lead to these scenarios.
Sumantra Maitra
· 5 min read
STEM Diversity, Bias, and Research
This can only go on for so long before people push back.
Sebastian Cesario
· 9 min read
Female Genital Mutilation, Health Benefits, and the Problem of Medicalising Morality
The mantra implies that if FGM did have health benefits, it wouldn’t be so bad after all.
Brian D Earp
· 24 min read
The Google Diversity Memo — Still Stereotyping, Just Not in the Way You Think
What Google needs to do is to tailor its diversity policies towards the men and women who work at Google.
Renee Adams and Vanitha Ragunathan
· 4 min read
The Google Memo — Four Scientists Respond
Psychological differences make equal outcomes impossible. Equality or diversity. You can’t have both.
Lee Jussim, Geoffrey Miller, David P Schmitt, Debra Soh
· 14 min read
Time to Stop Worrying About First-World Gender Gaps
There will never be perfect 50:50 gender parity in every field.
Aaron Neil
· 5 min read
Laura Kipnis, Camille Paglia, and the Redefinition of Sex
Kipnis’ cautionary tale dovetails with Camille Paglia’s collection of essays, Free Women, Free Men.
Irene Ogrizek
· 6 min read
Beauty, Equality, and the Problem of Calling Everything Sexist
At the heart of this revolution lies the myth of the “authentic self” – the largely or entirely mutable or malleable “self-realizing” person of indifferent gender.
Steven C Munson
· 11 min read
Stop Using the Term "Gender"
From that perspective, it might make sense to co-opt “gender” to refer to human sexual phenotypic diversity.
Michael McConkey
· 8 min read
Laura Kipnis, Rape Culture, and the Disappearance of Sex
The net effect is a chilling of casual sexual interactions, especially amongst young people. And so, why is anyone surprised? And why doesn’t the media want to talk about it?
Michael Aaron
· 8 min read