Western Women Condemn Themselves in Condemning Passport Bros
Janice Fiamengo discusses the phenomenon of ‘Passport Bros’
On Father’s Day, Can We Please Stop Lecturing Dads?
Long before they replaced mothers with “birthing persons,” fathers were being told to be more like mothers
And another man gone, and another man gone
Last month, three men in media lost high-profile positions over a single weekend: on April 23rd and 24th, it was announced that Jeff Shell was out at NBCUniversal, Don Lemon at CNN, and Tucker Carlson at Fox. The reasons for Lemon’s and Carlson’s dismissals have not been released, but transgressions against gender propriety seem to …
Hey Kate, how often do you beat your husband?
The trend to make female movie characters tough and abrasive has been proceeding for some time. We can all predict that the new partner in the police procedural, let’s say a petite black woman whose entrance surprises (and thus reveals the bigotry of) the white man she’ll be working with, will turn out to be …
Single-Sex Spaces for Me, But Not for Thee
If women expect men to defend female single-sex spaces, they should take a hard look at the erosion of male space
A reformed feminism still sees men as accessories to women
Mary Harrington, author of the just-published Feminism Against Progress, is one of a number of women (Louise Perry is another) criticizing feminism from the inside. In particular, Harrington has taken aim at birth control technology—the pill—as an aspect of what she dubs cyborg feminism, the bio-medical upgrading of the body in the service of a …
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Do Feminists Suffer From Penis Envy?
I recently came across an article about Sigmund Freud’s theory of female psycho-sexual development, in which Taylor Kubota described penis envy as follows: “Women become envious of penises at a young age, when they realize boys derive more sexual pleasure from their penises than girls do from their own sexual organs. Freud said this penis …
Why I Do Not Celebrate International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is upon us once again. March 8th is the day we are exhorted to turn our attention to women: to their achievements and struggles, their courage and their suffering, their indispensable roles in our societies—and to what more can be done, mostly with men’s tax dollars, to promote and advantage them. When I …
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Earth to Poilievre: MGTOW Have Good Reason, and Every Right, to Avoid Women
MGTOW have good reason to avoid women. Those who fund misandry have unmitigated gall in condemning them. Remember “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle?” Popularly credited to feminist icon Gloria Steinem, the slogan embodied the insouciance and independence claimed by Second Wave feminists. Women could get along just fine without men (though …
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