Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Feminism

  • Matriarchy Mitigated: Another Trumpian Accomplishment

    The mitigation of creeping matriarchy requires, among other things, a 'war' against puellafication.  I coined the word 'puellafication' here.  An ugly word for an ugly thing. Christina Hoff Sommers combats the thing.  While so doing she provides further proof that the Left is devoid of common sense: Across the country, schools are policing and punishing the distinctive, …

  • The Literary/Visual Trope of the Women’s March

    I propose the synecdoche: a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the…

  • Women for Trump

    A sampler.

  • Susan Haack’s Reasonable Feminism

    From an interview with Marty Nemko (HT: Dave Lull): MN: In a number of papers, you propose what you call a humanist, individualist feminism very different from the kind of feminism now fashionable in the academy and elsewhere. Can you tell us more? SH: My feminism is humanist because it stresses what all human beings…

  • Sunday Cat Blogging!

    Pussy riot, American style. An impotent response to Inaugural balls. Cultural polluter Madonna has crowned herself poster girl of the pussy riot. Destructive leftists will justify as free speech her border-line incitement to violence.  But the right to free speech is not absolute. Observations on Free Speech, #9: 9. To say that the right to…

  • Chess is Racist!

    Not only is chess racist, it is also sexist and patriarchal. The fact that the Queen is the most powerful piece on the board proves nothing to the contrary. The powers allowed to the Queen are in truth nothing more than so many sops thrown to the feminists to keep them quiet. The sexism and…

  • Camille Paglia on Hillary

    "The woman is a disaster!"    As I have quipped more than once, C. P. is a partial antidote to P. C. But she does not earn the plenary MavPhil endorsement.  Partial is better than nothing, however.  She can say some dumb things.   See Camille Paglia on Philosophy and Women in Philosophy and A…

  • Why Women are Under-Represented in Philosophy: A Politically Incorrect View

    TRIGGER WARNING!  Clear, critical, and independent thinking up ahead.  All girly-girls, pajama boys, and crybullies  out of the room and to their safe spaces and sandboxes.  If you play nice, Uncle Bill may serve milk and cookies. The following is excerpted from a much longer discussion with some alt-rightists/neo-reactionaries.  I am not one of them.…

  • Would You Vote for Hillary Because She is a Woman?

    According to Heather Wilhelm, feminists are teetering on the brink of a "nervous breakdown": Why, the chorus goes, is Bernie cast as the future, while Hillary gets painted as “the establishment”? Hillary Clinton is a woman, didn’t you notice? She is by her very nature oppressed; by definition, she cannot be the establishment. Never mind…

  • Political Correctness Can Get You Raped

    Here.  Which is more important, to protect women from rape or to be a p.c.-whipped multi-culti?

  • Defining My Kind of Conservatism Against the Neo-Reactionary Variety

    My brand of conservatism takes on board what  I consider to be good in the old liberal tradition.  I like to think that it blends the best of conservatism with the best of liberalism.  A couple of  sharp young philosophers have surfaced to challenge me, however.  Their brand of conservatism looks askance at paleo-liberalism and…

  • Is There Anything Good About Men?

    Via Bill Keezer, via Malcolm Pollack, I came to the above-captioned address by Roy F. Baumeister.  Packed with insights.  (In my book, 'insight' is a noun of success: there are no false insights.)

  • Christina Hoff Sommers On Trigger Warnings

    I had breakfast with the boys this morning.  Mike Valle mentioned Christina Hoff Sommers' Factual Feminist YouTube series.  Here is the episode on trigger warnings. I should warn you that the strident fulminations of this conservative virago may cause distress. Related articles Trigger Warning Facts, Opinions, and Common Core When will colleges fight back against…

  • Is Chivalry Benevolent Sexism?

    Here

  • A Quasi-Kierkegaardian Poke at Paglia

    I have long enjoyed the writings of Camille Paglia.  But while C. P. is a partial antidote to P. C., the arresting Miss Paglia does not quite merit a plenary MavPhil indulgence endorsement.  One reason is because of what she says in the following excerpt from The Catholic Pagan: 10 Questions for Camille Paglia (via…