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
· 11 min read
Feminism
A collection of 174 posts
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
· 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
· 7 min read
The Defenestration of Domingo
Domingo’s entrepreneurial drive has been as untiring as his stage career.
Heather Mac Donald
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 7 min read
The Feminist Case for Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend
A UBI system would do far more than any other policy proposed by the current set of Democratic candidates to reduce the vulnerability of such women.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
I’m a Feminist Mother. But I Don’t Need a ‘Feminist Birth’
A birth away from hospital can be seen as a feminist act of resistance. But it’s not a form of resistance I want to join.
Amy Eileen Hamm
· 11 min read
The End of an Era—A Feminist Firebrand Looks Back
As global violence against women gained horrendous momentum, many Western feminists became increasingly afraid to criticize that violence lest they be condemned as colonialists and racists.
Phyllis Chesler
· 14 min read