Feminism - Quillette (Page 5)

Like It Or Not, Keira Bell Has Opened Up a Real Conversation About Gender Dysphoria

In the debate about transitioning children who experience gender dysphoria, Ms. Bell’s case represents an important turning point.

Quillette

18 Dec 2020 · 9 min read

The Troubled Maker: Transgressive Art, Public Shame, and Mike Tyson

Tyson embodies the moral ambiguity of boxing’s rich tapestry: brutal and beautiful; entertaining and repellent; dishonorable and inspiring.

Ric Royer

14 Dec 2020 · 11 min read

Requiem for a Female Serial Killer—A Review

Wuornos had maintained that all seven victims had become violent and either raped or threatened to rape her, and that she had killed them in self-defense.

Charlotte Allen

8 Dec 2020 · 20 min read

My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did

Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.

Edie Wyatt

7 Dec 2020 · 12 min read

The Attack on Beauty

The new beauty contest has less to do with our physical vanities and more to do with our moral ones.

Marilyn Simon

1 Dec 2020 · 11 min read

OnlyFans and the Changing Face of Pornography

OnlyFans is successful, not because it’s extreme, but because it’s innovative. Traditionally, pornography has only really allowed consumers to be passive voyeurs and therefore to see performers as not much more than sexual objects.

Ariel Anderssen

19 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

Commemorating Mary

Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary each paid a high price for defying convention. They both entered into relationships out-of-wedlock at a time when doing so was enough to put a woman out of good society.

Lona Manning

18 Nov 2020 · 10 min read

My Own Private Chateau—Pauline Réage's 'Story of O' Revisited

Our culture makes a well intentioned but dangerous error in taking every thought experiment, every utterance, every representation, every fantasy of sexual expression seriously.

Marilyn Simon

18 Oct 2020 · 15 min read

The Moral Panic over 'Sexualisation'

I regularly found myself on national TV and radio, opposing the idea that the state should act to stop teenagers accessing sexual material.

Jerry Barnett

16 Oct 2020 · 12 min read

Keeping Male Bodies Out of Women's Rugby

World Rugby had to come to terms with reality: Irrespective of hormonal intervention, male athletes are, on average, 40 percent heavier, 15 percent faster, 30 percent more powerful, and 25–50 percent stronger than their female counterparts.

Linda Blade

27 Sep 2020 · 8 min read

How the Nonbinary Trend Hurts Those with Real Gender Dysphoria

Some nonbinary people will say that they don’t like labels such as “gay” or “lesbian” because they are binary terms; attraction to a man or a woman, even in the context of being gay, is still considered attraction to a binary gender.

Debra Soh

19 Sep 2020 · 6 min read

The Dishonest and Misogynistic Hate Campaign Against J.K. Rowling

And it turns out that she was, because despite the best efforts of her critics, she hasn’t yet been truly cancelled.

Louise Perry

18 Sep 2020 · 7 min read

At the NHS and BBC, Important Steps Toward Restoring Balance in the Gender Debate

The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely.

Julian Vigo

5 Aug 2020 · 10 min read

The Myth of Pervasive Misogyny

Contrary to expectations from the pervasive misogyny theory, across a variety of topics, samples, and research teams, recent findings in psychology suggest that such biases often favor women.

Cory Clark / Bo Winegard

27 Jul 2020 · 11 min read

How Britain’s Feminist Grass Roots Turned the Tide Against Gender Extremists

The novelists, librarians, and booksellers circling the wagons to shut women up have been insisting for years that they are motivated by nothing but love and tolerance.

Erin Perse

18 Jun 2020 · 7 min read