Feminism - Quillette (Page 6)

No, COVID-19 Is Not a 'Disaster for Feminism'

It often seems like it’s mostly feminists who disparage female work and praise so highly the world of corporate and professional success.

Marilyn Simon

25 Mar 2020 · 6 min read

How Anonymous, Unproven Accusations Turned Mike Tunison's Career Into MeToo Road Kill

The truth is that we don’t actually know what ultimately will become of men such as Tunison.

Libby Emmons

23 Feb 2020 · 7 min read

Please Stop Calling Yourself a 'Feminist Badass'

Calling yourself a badass doesn’t convey anything other than the distinct impression that you are, in fact, the opposite of a badass.

Meghan Daum

19 Nov 2019 · 9 min read

The Price of Sex

The total value of the sex trade could be said to be the value of the net transfer of wealth from men to women.

Jerry Barnett

14 Nov 2019 · 11 min read

The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Women to Do Nothing

In my pre-feminist days, sexual harassment and rape were so common, so pervasive, so accepted, that they were virtually invisible.

Phyllis Chesler

13 Nov 2019 · 14 min read

'For the Love of Men'—A Review

I am sure that men, and the world in general, would be better off if we could foster more intimate male friendships and more honest interaction between men and doctors but some idealised vision of male sensitivity might shatter when confronted with the stresses of the world.

Ben Sixsmith

1 Nov 2019 · 7 min read

The Defenestration of Domingo

Domingo’s entrepreneurial drive has been as untiring as his stage career.

Heather Mac Donald

18 Oct 2019 · 16 min read

Good Men Aren't Getting Harder to Find

Every year in the US, nearly 2 million students enroll in one of the nearly 4,300 degree-granting colleges and universities.

Daniel Friedman

14 Oct 2019 · 6 min read

How Feminism Has Constrained Our Understanding of Gender

Feminist research into sex differences has typically concluded that the number of sex differences is small, and therefore unimportant, thus making the logical error that a small number of differences means those differences are inconsequential.

John Barry

8 Oct 2019 · 7 min read

Buying Fentanyl on the Streets of San Francisco—An Interview with Heather Mac Donald

Cities are one of the great accomplishments of human civilization.

Michael Shellenberger

8 Oct 2019 · 7 min read

University Harassment Policy and Its Problems

In its effort to protect its students from potentially awkward social interactions, the university is arrogating adult decision-making to the institution.

Marilyn Simon

2 Oct 2019 · 10 min read

Understanding the Propaganda Campaign Against So-called ‘TERFs’

It certainly sounds bad (“exclusion” being a modern secular sin), for it suggests that so-called TERFs want trans people excluded from health care, or from jobs or homes, or from society as a whole—or even from life itself.

Helen Joyce

2 Oct 2019 · 9 min read

Gilead Resembles an Islamic Theocracy, not Trump’s America

Misogynist thinking and actions exist in America today but not only among right-wing conservatives. It is also flourishing among our media and academic elites.

Phyllis Chesler

2 Oct 2019 · 14 min read

How the Trans-Rights Movement Is Turning Philosophers Into Activists

Can we not treat trans people as the sex they identify with for almost all purposes, and still make some distinctions when it comes to female-only spaces, services and provisions?

Holly Lawford-Smith

20 Sep 2019 · 17 min read

The Return to Archaic Forms of Power—An Interview with Marianne Stidsen

A basic principle of Western societies – in addition to the fact that all people are born free and equal – is openness to criticism.

Paulina Neuding

8 Sep 2019 · 7 min read