‘Girls Need Female Role Models’ and Other Bromides We all need role models. Role models can do wonders to our lives. But, please, let’s choose them for their qualities—not their gender. Elena Shalneva 9 Dec 2019 · 6 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
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 · 16 min read
In Praise of Renoir's Male Gaze Renoir’s nudes are the evidence of a tirelessly hopeful soul struggling against the dingy reality of the modern world, with its modern industry and its modern warfare, that turns all human flesh into disposable objects, without joy or humanity. Marilyn Simon 10 Sep 2019 · 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 1 Sep 2019 · 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 20 Aug 2019 · 10 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 20 Jun 2019 · 13 min read
How a Feminist Prophet Became an Apostate—An Interview with Dr Phyllis Chesler Dr Phyllis Chesler has never been afraid to be unpopular. Louise Perry 20 Jun 2019 · 11 min read
The Life of a Transgender Prisoner Transgender convicts receive treatment from other prisoners that correlates to how attractive they are. Henry Higgins 17 Jun 2019 · 6 min read
It’s Time for Progressives to Protect Women Instead of Pronouns Many liberals—including feminists and lesbians—have been cowardly in calling out this noxious phenomenon, for fear of being called transphobes. Julie Bindel 14 Jun 2019 · 6 min read
An Unhelpful Study about Women in Physics Moreover, the conclusion that harassment drives women from physics contradicts publicly available data on the progression of women in physics careers. Sebastian Cesario 13 Jun 2019 · 7 min read
Rethinking Abortion Advocacy Arbitrary doesn’t mean random and it doesn’t mean cruel. Coleman Hughes 21 May 2019 · 8 min read
The Abortion Issue Isn’t About ‘The Patriarchy’ The debate over the morality and legality of abortion is one of the most divisive and enduring issues in American public life. Andrew Glover 18 May 2019 · 6 min read