Time to Stop Worrying About First-World Gender Gaps
There will never be perfect 50:50 gender parity in every field.
Aaron Neil
· 5 min read
Identity Politics
A collection of 52 posts
Scepticism About White Privilege
White privilege is a central theme of the protests at Evergreen State College, University of Missouri, Yale University, and so on.
Spencer Case
· 11 min read
Social Justice: The End of Moral Certainty
History reveals that foundational advances are few, and that subsequent to them spawn—in hydra-like fashion—many more, often arcane corollary branches of inquiry.
Thomas Varnke
· 8 min read
Beauty, Equality, and the Problem of Calling Everything Sexist
At the heart of this revolution lies the myth of the “authentic self” – the largely or entirely mutable or malleable “self-realizing” person of indifferent gender.
Steven C Munson
· 11 min read
How Cultural Appropriation Was Sold and Went Mainstream
Public criticism of cultural appropriation, even in its more sober and reflective manifestations, duly narrows to a couple of apparent trends.
Robert Seddon
· 6 min read
Philosophers Must Learn from the Transracialism Meltdown
For years we have been hearing that political correctness is cresting, that this-or-that campus outrage represents the last straw, the turning point.
Spencer Case
· 11 min read
When Accusations Lose Their Bite
ABC canceled one of its most popular shows, “Last Man Standing” starring conservative comedian Tim Allen.
Nathan Cofnas
· 6 min read
Stop Using the Term "Gender"
From that perspective, it might make sense to co-opt “gender” to refer to human sexual phenotypic diversity.
Michael McConkey
· 8 min read
Cultural Appropriation Isn't Real
Being imaginative is more important for a writer than being from the “right” ethnic background or having the “right” experience.
Helen Dale
· 7 min read
It's Not Important to Defund Identity Culture
If taxpayers from both the Right and the Left refuse to fund identity culture, what exactly will remain of the arts?
Reilly Smethurst
· 7 min read
Yassmin Abdel-Magied — The Woman on Whom Everything Is Lost
The most charitable conclusion would be that she is either dishonest or deluded.
Timothy Cootes
· 5 min read
A Good Word for the Contemptible Straight White Male
Nowadays, it’s morally and intellectually permissible to denigrate a group of people based on skin colour and gender, so long as they’re white and male.
Timothy Cootes
· 5 min read
Negotiating Standpoints Outside the University Classroom
If universities made this negotiation route available to students as a matter of policy, campus activists won’t have to wave their signs and tread on the grass as their default action.
Daniel Tippens
· 6 min read
Stereotypes Can Hold Boys Back in School Too
These expectations can work both ways: When researchers told children that boys and girls would perform the same, boys’ academic performance improved.
David Miller
· 5 min read
Feminism Needs to Talk About Responsibility, Not Just Rights
If we ask these accusers to explain themselves, are we blaming the victims? Possibly.
Irene Ogrizek
· 7 min read