Category: Feminism
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Universal Suffrage
I wrote, on 4 March, The war is over the soul of America. The question concerns whether we should (i) preserve what remains of America as she was founded to be, and (ii) restore those good elements of the system bequeathed to us by the Founders, while (iii) preserving the legitimate progress that has been made (e.g.…
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The Eclipse of Sex by the Rise of Gender
Ponder this
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“One Man’s Datum is Another Man’s Theory”
Why do I use 'man'? To exclude women? No, to exclude leftists, both men and women. I believe in equality when it comes to the exclusion of the destructive. In the '70s, when it first really got going, gender-inclusive language seemed to many a very good thing indeed. It showed a welcoming attitude to the…
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A Note on Feminism and My Conservatism
Although I am a conservative, I am not a 'throne and altar' conservative. Nor am I the sort of conservative who thinks that everything traditional trumps everything newfangled. (The conservative's presumption in favor of the traditional is defeasible.) And of course it is silly to think that conservatives oppose change; it is just that we don't…
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Mary Midgley (1919 – 2018)
The Guardian reports, Mary Midgley, who has died aged 99, was an important writer on ethics, the relations of humans and animals, our tendency to misconstrue science, and the role of myth and poetry. Read it all. The Telegraph obituary, behind a paywall, begins: Mary Midgley, who has died aged 99, was one of Britain’s…
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Madeleine Albright, Chief of the Tribal Females
"There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other." Thus Madeleine Albright, urging women to vote for Hillary because she's a woman. Now there is a reason that stands up to sober scrutiny. That's on a level with someone's refusing to vote for Hillary because of her pant-suited thunder thighs. Albright…
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Niall Ferguson on Christine Blasey Ford and #MeToo
Well worth reading. Especially this: The #MeToo movement is revolutionary feminism. Like all revolutionary movements, it favors summary justice. Since April 2017, more than 200 men have been publicly accused of some form of sexual offense, ranging from rape to inappropriate language. A few of these men seem likely to have committed crimes and are…
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The Left eats its own: pink pussyhats are now ‘racist’
But of course! First, not all 'women' sport pussies. Second, not all female genitalia are pink. The second point presupposes that race and skin color are the same, which is demonstrably not the case; that, however, is a serious point upon which I shall expatiate in a rather more serious offering. Here I am engaged in the…
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Abortion and the Wages of Concupiscence Unrestrained
The 'pro-choice' movement, to use the polite euphemism, is fueled by concupiscence. Not entirely, of course. To what extent, then? One naturally wants the pleasures of sexual intercourse without any consequences. One seeks cost-free indulgence in the most intense sensuous pleasure known to man. Unrestricted abortion on demand is a convenient remedy to an inconvenient…
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Was Hefner a Condition of the Possibility of Post-’60s Feminism?
Damon Linker: By mainstreaming pornography in Playboy magazine, and valorizing the pursuit of (male, heterosexual) hedonistic pleasure with his highly publicized playboy lifestyle, Hefner made a singularly important contribution to the overthrow of received norms of sexual morals that made modern (post-1960s) feminism possible. But he also accomplished this overthrow by exploiting women, reducing them to sex…
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The High Price of Feminization
By Andrew Cadmon, from a British perspective. Good insights sure to enrage 'liberals.' (HT: Bill Keezer)
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Plain Talk About Transgenderism
Sometimes the cure for P. C. is C.P. , Camille Paglia, that is: It is certainly ironic how liberals who posture as defenders of science when it comes to global warming (a sentimental myth unsupported by evidence) flee all reference to biology when it comes to gender. Biology has been programmatically excluded from women's studies…
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Are Gender Studies Garbage?
If they are, they have not been proven to be by the Conceptual Penis as Social Construct 'Son of Sokal' Hoax. If you care to 'bone up' on this, this Reason article has the links for you.
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Camille Paglia on Pussy Hats
She approved — of all things — of the Women’s March. “I think it’s important that women rediscover solidarity with themselves,” she said. “It really wasn’t about feminism. It’s really not about Trump. It’s not about any of that. It was all of a sudden, Oh, wow, to be with all the women.” Still, the…
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The Rage of Sally Haslanger
Here. I discuss, not her rage, but some of her ideas in Is Beef Food? and in the ComBox to 'Women are Better at Looking After Children.'