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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.
Our culture makes a well intentioned but dangerous error in taking every thought experiment, every utterance, every representation, every fantasy of sexual expression seriously.
I regularly found myself on national TV and radio, opposing the idea that the state should act to stop teenagers accessing sexual material.
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.
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.
And it turns out that she was, because despite the best efforts of her critics, she hasn’t yet been truly cancelled.
The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely.
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.
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.
Anthropology taught me how to spot this instinct. Gender-critical feminists taught me how to stand up to it.
This does not exonerate those feminists who refused to stand with Tara Reade from the start—a cynical, hypocritical move if ever there was one.
The #MeToo era has been a time for all journalists to re-examine their professional standards.
It often seems like it’s mostly feminists who disparage female work and praise so highly the world of corporate and professional success.
The truth is that we don’t actually know what ultimately will become of men such as Tunison.
Calling yourself a badass doesn’t convey anything other than the distinct impression that you are, in fact, the opposite of a badass.