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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

27 Jul 2021 · 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

20 Jul 2021 · 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

24 Jun 2021 · 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

26 May 2021 · 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

19 May 2021 · 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

18 May 2021 · 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

22 Apr 2021 · 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

19 Apr 2021 · 8 min read

'Allen v. Farrow': Intellectually Dishonest Propaganda Meets Emotional Blackmail

There is no doubt that part of the goal of Allen v. Farrow was to finish off both Allen’s career and his legacy by presenting a definitive guilty verdict in the court of public opinion.

Cathy Young

28 Mar 2021 · 26 min read

Mailer and the Second Wavers

“The Prisoner of Sex”—in both magazine and book form—was largely a baroque riposte to Kate Millett’s bestselling feminist polemic Sexual Politics.

Charlotte Allen

22 Mar 2021 · 31 min read

Accommodating Trans Athletes Without Rejecting the Reality of Human Biology

As recent studies have shown, these advantages generally don’t go away simply because an athlete has changed their pronouns and hormone chemistry. At the highest levels, the difference between male and female world records typically hovers around 10 percent.

Quillette

17 Feb 2021 · 11 min read

Sexual Assault and the Taboo of Sound Advice

Yes, your car might be stolen even if you lock it and take the keys, but does that mean that no one should remind us to lock our cars and take our keys?

Steve Salerno

7 Feb 2021 · 6 min read

Scottish Nationalists in Turmoil

The trans argument shows how easily it may be rocked back on its heels. Neither of the two women at loggerheads are transphobic on any but an extreme definition; they merely differ about how easy it should be to register a sex change.

John Lloyd

4 Feb 2021 · 10 min read

First, Do No Harm: A New Model for Treating Trans-Identified Children

Individuals with a fragile ego structure also tend to be prone toward black-and-white thinking, which leads them to concrete rather than symbolic solutions.

Susan Evans and Marcus Evans

4 Feb 2021 · 16 min read

A Peculiar Kind of Racist Patriarchy

The income gap between white and black women, meanwhile, is much narrower than the gap between their male counterparts.

Rav Arora

22 Dec 2020 · 16 min read