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
· 31 min read
Feminism
A collection of 171 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 16 min read
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 12 min read