Questions for Feminists
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Feminism
NOW claims credit for healing the sick, raising the dead, and inventing the cappuccino
Now is the winter of our discontent
Something of a Life
It was 1955, and the sun shone on the houses that were our homes. I played outside and enjoyed the world of a five-year-old. From a few doors away, a girl of thirteen started coming to our house, presumably out of a teenager’s fascination with small children.
Why gay men don’t need feminism – Part 2: The takeover
Andy Bob strikes again with Part II in his series on why gay men don’t need feminism, which is to say gay men don’t need movements that hate and exploit them.
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 …
The battle for feminism’s soul
Much of social discourse hinges on the battle to claim ownership of terms. “Feminist” is a great example. Fidelbogen tells us who has the right to define it.
