Little Liliths Contemporary feminist thought is correct to identify the male gaze as the default way of seeing, but has largely overlooked the fact that the gaze places power squarely in the hands of women, not men. Marilyn Simon 12 May 2023 · 11 min read
I’m Loving Substack’s New ‘Notes’ Service. But Can the Good Times Last? Much as Substack originally supplied writers with a turnkey newsletter operation, Notes provides us with a turnkey form of community-building. Jonathan Kay 18 Apr 2023 · 7 min read
Our New, Subscription-Based World Like Substack, Quillette is hoping to provide readers with more engagement, and less anger. The Quillette Editorial Board 10 Apr 2023 · 7 min read
Ending Discrimination by Twitter Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction. Holly Lawford-Smith 28 Nov 2022 · 8 min read
Twitter is Not the Town Square Refashioning the private company as a legitimate town square would require more change than we realize. Angel Eduardo 23 Nov 2022 · 6 min read
Forget Elon Musk. Maybe the Problem with Twitter Is You No technical fix can remove the stress that comes with putting your opinions out into the world. And if you can’t handle that stress, you need to log off. Jonathan Kay 4 Nov 2022 · 5 min read
Reject the Rules of the Social Media Game The only winning move is not to play. Niamh Jiménez 10 Sep 2022 · 19 min read
Stop Feeding Your Brain Junk Food A simple way to discourage clickbait influencers from producing low-quality content is for the rest of us to stop consuming it. Gurwinder Bhogal 26 Jul 2022 · 9 min read
Stop Sharing Political Memes They are a doorway into stupidity and misery. Christopher J. Ferguson 23 Jul 2022 · 5 min read
Confessions of a Social-Justice Meme Maker I made pretty pictures that helped keep people enraged and mobilized. Then I asked myself: ‘Why am I doing this?‘ Christina Buttons 17 May 2022 · 9 min read
Building a Better Twitter Twitter’s current policy on content isn’t one dimensional: It serves up both false positives and false negatives—wrongly banning certain accounts for thoughtcrimes while permitting others to continue on the platform despite engaging in grotesquely abusive behavior. The Quillette Editorial Board 6 May 2022 · 4 min read
Musk and Moderation Reports that Twitter has accepted [https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-elon-musk-won-twitter-11650943029?mod=e2tw] Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company for $54.20 a share have provoked much handwringing about his attitudes to free speech, especially with respect to possible changes in the social media platform’s moderation policies. Jim Rutt 27 Apr 2022 · 10 min read
How Much Real-World Extremism Does Online Hate Actually Cause? While calls to censor hate speech and violent extremist content on social media platforms are common [https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/30/mark-zuckerberg-calls-for-tighter-internet-regulations-we-need-a-more-active-role-for-governments.html] , there’s little evidence that online incitement [https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000260382] leads to real-world radicalization. Ironically, such calls may actually galvanize extremists, Bill Ottman and Jesse Morton 20 Mar 2022 · 6 min read