Children of the Counter-Revolution
Sexual liberty reconsidered.
Cathy Young
· 16 min read
Feminism
A collection of 172 posts
Female Empowerment Shouldn’t Mean We Have to Imitate Men
I recently started work in a male-dominated field, and I’ve been getting a lot of sympathetic remarks about my being “a woman in X.” But something has started to feel a bit off about this line. I’ve realized that being a woman in my field doesn’t actually
N. Russell
· 6 min read
I’m Being Investigated by the British Columbia College of Nurses Because I Believe Biological Sex Is Real
In November 2020, the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) informed me that I was under investigation for my “off-duty conduct.” My disciplinary hearing is scheduled to take place from May 30th through June 3rd, and my career as a nurse hangs in the balance. I have been
Amy Eileen Hamm
· 8 min read
The Ironies of Sex
Young people are still discovering their sexual selves and are often lost when exploring the sexual terrain of someone else’s body and mind.
Gregory Gorelik
· 8 min read
Judith Butler: Enough Already!
Maybe Butler is an anti-identitarian when it comes to gender, but she sure defends her political identity most rigidly, indeed, in an obscurantist way.
Lama Abu-Odeh
· 7 min read
Life as a Stand-Up Comic Can Be Brutal. ‘Safe Space’ Call-out Culture Is Making it Unbearable
“Cancel culture” has become a trendy term in recent years. But public shaming has always existed. It’s a social tool, and like all tools can be used for good or ill.
Jessica Pigeau
· 35 min read
Gender Transition and Desistance in Teenage Girls: Two Psychotherapeutic Case Studies
Detransitioners and desisters can also feel angry at psychiatric and medical specialists, who they understandably believe have not adequately assessed their motivations for requesting medical intervention.
Susan Evans and Marcus Evans
· 27 min read
Rescuing the Radicalized Discourse on Sex and Gender: Part Two of a Three-Part Series
Our choice of words affects the way we think. That’s why we spend so much time fighting over which terms to use, whether it’s “undocumented immigrants” versus “illegal aliens,” “foetuses” versus “unborn babies,” or “militants” versus “terrorists.” In recent years, the question of word choice has figured prominently
Allan Stratton
· 17 min read
Interview with Slavenka Drakulić—the East-West Doyenne of the 1990s
Living under a totalitarian regime one knows censorship in and out. One can smell it from far away and I smell it in this terror of political correctness—or, if we turn it around, in the danger of expressing different, unpopular views.
Robin Ashenden
· 13 min read
Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial
Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about.
Quillette
· 10 min read
The Gathering Resistance to the Stigmatisation of Masculinity
There is now a growing international movement of men and women dedicated to resisting the anti-masculinity narrative.
Hannah Gal
· 8 min read
Gender Activists Co-Opted British Columbia’s Courts. Meet the Woman Who Stood Up to Them
Under this policy, declaring one’s pronouns is required when people introduce themselves in court whether they present in keeping with their biological sex or not.
Karin Litzcke
· 16 min read
Lesbians Aren’t Attracted to a Female ‘Gender Identity.’ We’re Attracted to Women
Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction.
Kathleen Stock
· 13 min read
The Ugly History of Rape Panics
As sexual violence was reaching historic lows, the narrative was demanding the opposite. The definition of sexual violence began to be broadened, and so the numbers grew.
Jerry Barnett
· 11 min read
Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism's Deadly Blind Spot
The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism.
Edie Wyatt
· 8 min read