Sexual Perversity in Ontario
An absurd trial, a prurient media circus, and a failure of feminist ethics.
Marilyn Simon
· 12 min read
Feminism
A collection of 174 posts
Masculinity and Political Extremism with Sociologist Josh Roose | Quillette Cetera Ep. 49
As more young men search for meaning in a fragmented world, political sociologist Joshua Roose joins Zoe to explore how masculinity, disaffection, and the lure of belonging draw some toward Islamism, others to the far right.
Zoe Booth
· 12 min read
All Men Behaving Badly
Just six months after it was released by Netflix, Anna Kendrick’s feminist film about a real serial killer already looks like an ideological relic.
Charlotte Allen
· 23 min read
How to Tell if You’re Living in a Patriarchy
Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.
Helen Pluckrose
· 16 min read
Rumble on the Royal Mile
Scottish feminists are angry that an accomplished male sculptor has been commissioned to make a statue of a suffragette.
Aidan Harte
· 5 min read
Awaiting a New Scottish Enlightenment
No country has tried harder to erase biology in the name of transgender rights. But thanks to the efforts of Scotland’s independent-minded feminists, the tide may finally be turning.
Joan Smith
· 19 min read
Hamas and Feminist Dissonance
Forced to choose between believing the claims of Israeli women and maintaining solidarity with Palestinians, Western academic feminists chose the latter.
Sonya Michel
· 20 min read
The Great Divergence
Many psychological and behavioural gaps between men and women have widened in more gender-equal countries, dealing a major blow to sociological theories of sex differences.
David C. Geary, Lewis G. Halsey
· 8 min read
Shakespeare Versus the Girlboss
Jodi Picoult’s latest novel is a ham-fisted expression of cultural rage, embodying the most anodyne values of corporate human-resources departments.
Marilyn Simon
· 14 min read
Podcast #263: In Defence of Julia the Elder
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Joan Smith, whose new book critically examines the 2,000-year-old propaganda campaign against imperial Rome’s leading women.
Quillette
· 15 min read
‘Shameless Beyond the Curse of Shamelessness’
In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into exile.
Joan Smith
· 16 min read
Are Board Gender Quotas a Good Idea?
The more we try to limit freedom in the interests of desirable social change, the less effective we will be in the long run, and the greater the number of additional problems we create.
Silvia G. Poratelli
· 8 min read
I Thought Being a Gay Man Would Save Me From Womanhood (It Didn’t)
Queer theory transformed me from a depressed, weird, intellectually curious child into a brainwashed teen who disfigured her body.
Laura Becker
· 11 min read
Feminism and Free Speech
Victoria’s proposed hate speech legislation forces feminists to choose which is more important to them: the restriction of misogynistic speech, or the protection of their own political speech.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 5 min read
In British Columbia, Censorship Wears a Pronoun Pin
Even by Canadian standards, the province has become a hostile environment for women seeking to advocate for their sex-based rights.
Meghan Murphy
· 10 min read