We Need to Talk About Trans-Identified Killers
The list of violent criminals who imagine they were ‘born in the wrong body’ is growing.
Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman
· 12 min read
Violence
A collection of 8 posts
Podcast #279: How Accurate Is ‘Adolescence’?
Iona Italia talks to William Costello, an evolutionary psychologist whose work focuses on incels, about what the Netflix series 'Adolescence' gets right and wrong about this group.
Quillette, William Costello, Iona Italia
· 51 min read
Violence Against Women: A Crisis in Australia?
Australia is among the least violent countries in the world. There are things we should do to make women safer, but we should not succumb to a crisis narrative.
Russell Blackford
· 12 min read
Equity Concerns Lead to a Mass-Firing of Museum Volunteers
The firing of the AIC docents was only possible because unpaid staffers are not covered by its provisions, and the MMA was able to circumvent equal opportunity requirements by exclusively recruiting from local black colleges.
Robert Cherry
· 7 min read
The Status Game: Male, Grandiose, Humiliated
When grandiose men are humiliated, the fallout turns catastrophic.
Will Storr
· 15 min read
Socialization Isn't Responsible for Greater Male Violence
The evidence that men are more violent and more criminal than women is overwhelming, and yet it doesn’t imply that all men are violent, deserve to be incarcerated, or are undeserving of our sympathy or compassion if they are imprisoned.
Alex Mackiel
· 7 min read
Take It from Someone Who Has Suffered Real Abuse — Words Aren't Violence
The ordinary challenges of life now are being reinvented as trauma, and words are conflated with violence.
Alexandra Berryhill
· 10 min read
Does Religion Cause Violence?
Make no mistake, we should be wary of the effects that beliefs might have.
Brian Boutwell, Jonathan Anomaly
· 10 min read