In the name of freedom, contemporary feminism has embraced gender transition, the Pill, abortion, casual sex, and the delegation of care to industry. In doing so, it has lied to women. You too can be men, it has told them. You can leave your female body behind, you can have sex without feeling and without consequence, you can reject the burden of care. But women cannot be men, and the price of the pretence that they can, and of the assumption that they should want to be, is one that women can no longer afford to pay. If feminism is to once again serve women, it must accept that the sexes are different. It must strive for a world in which “men and women can be human together.” So Mary Harrington—a Featured Author here at Fairer Disputations—argues in her book, Feminism Against Progress.
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