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Andrea Dworkin Was Right About Men February 25, 2025
If I were Andrea Dworkin, I’d be glad that I was dead. When the radical feminist writer succumbed to heart disease aged 58, it seemed tragically young — but at least she avoided the undignified spectacle of the fourth-wave feminists of 2025 wincing o...
The Age of the Prude Is Over February 20, 2025
It was just last spring when a viral video of a bouncing, scantily clad Sydney Sweeney was heralded by the Right-wing internet as an early harbinger of the coming vibe shift. “Wokeness is dead,” declared commentator Richard Hanania, in an X post that...
Sophie Lewis’s Case Against Feminism February 19, 2025
‘Most people live in a crackpot world where the sky is green,” Curtis Yarvin wrote recently. And while “most people,” of course, don’t, extremists on either side of a given issue often do. This is the case for independent academic and essayist Sophie...
Rich Feminists Are Monetizing Poor Women February 13, 2025
The Jerry Springer Show is experiencing a fresh reckoning in the form of a Netflix docuseries that premiered in January. Director Luke Sewell brought together key members of the show’s production team to explore why Springer exploded. One interesting...
Bridget Jones’s Hollow Feminism February 07, 2025
Self-hatred sells. As the fourth Bridget Jones film arrives, I remember Helen Fielding’s creation with the queasy quality of hangover. She passed as a feminist heroine in the Nineties because she had a voice – she really did – and this is what she di...
Is the Tradwife Just a Kink? December 30, 2024
Picture this. Christmas morning — my many, many rosy-cheeked children barge into the bedroom. Me and my strapping, hairy husband Brick are a bit bleary-eyed, but no matter. He can lie in. I float downstairs: around the locally felled, artisan-bauble-...
Welcome to the Femosphere December 30, 2024
The manosphere, the misogynist internet world populated by influencers such as Andrew Tate, is widely recognised as a toxic space where young men are at risk of radicalisation. Now, say researchers, women and girls are being sucked into potentially d...
Was 'Fat Is a Feminist Issue' Liberating? December 10, 2024
The history of how women have endeavored to change, and usually shrink, the shape of our bodies is littered with artifacts so horrible they are often humorous: the massive, vibrating Magic Couch that promised 1950s husbands weight loss for their wive...
A Feminist Director Takes On the Erotic Thriller December 10, 2024
The final day of shooting for “Babygirl,” a new erotic thriller, was devoted to a sequence that the film’s writer and director, Halina Reijn, had deliberately saved for last. In the movie, which will be released on Christmas, Nicole Kidman plays Romy...
The Online Staying Power of a “Ballerina Farm” November 22, 2024
Hannah Neeleman is not here to make you feel better about yourself—which is perhaps why so many people resent her. A homeschooling mom of eight who milks cows and prepares daily farm-to-table meals for her growing household, Neeleman is, as a sneerin...
We Need to Talk About ‘Toxic Femininity’ November 15, 2024
We’ve spent several years now talking about “toxic masculinity,” though I’m not sure what exactly it means. It’s a great example of what Andrew Hofer calls “Trojan terminology” — think “white supremacy,” “settler colonialism,” “anti-racism” etc. Thes...
Love in the Time of Menopause November 14, 2024
Two novels of the moment—the film director and screenwriter Miranda July’s sparkly and funny All Fours; and the moody and emotional Don’t Be A Stranger, by Susan Minot—present middle-aged women sexually obsessed with unavailable younger men. The setu...
Ladies, Stop Sex Striking for Kamala November 14, 2024
Babe, wake up: We’re doing sexual blackmail for feminism again.Amid outrage over the fall of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, certain liberal women developed a novel strategy for creating a blue wave of backlash in the upcoming midterms. The problem, women ...
The “Girl’s Girls” Have Lost The Plot November 05, 2024
Madison Tayt recently dealt with some online blowback after her post saying Madison Beer had “no charisma” went viral. “Full disclosure, I don’t know much about Madison Beer,” Tayt, an actor in her 20s in New York City, tells me. “She seems very beau...
Jagged Little Pill October 30, 2024
At one point in history, the pill was heralded as a medical marvel, a way to unshackle women from an unwanted future. For female equality and independence, no invention of the 20th century has been more life-changing; as Gloria Steinem said, “Not eve...
Why I Am Not a PhD October 23, 2024
I used to get into quarrels with my high school math teacher. Every morning, he would stroll into class with a stack of notebooks, a pack of chalk, and a jab at our school’s English department. As a future English major, I felt it was my duty to spea...
Clan of the Cave Bore October 09, 2024
Creation Lake is a novel that wants to be many contradictory things to many people all at the same time: It is a spy novel and a satire of a spy novel; a retro “novel of ideas” in a mid-20th-century style that’s also an absurdist postmodern novel of ...
Why Feminists Love to Hate Sally Rooney September 23, 2024
“Lying naked with her chin in her hand, reading poetry.” Jesus, here we go. I feel my hackles rise as I’m thrown into an arena where it’s me versus an imaginary other reader, who I needn’t bother describing, who likes this kind of thing. The spectato...
Bad Omens for Neil Gaiman September 16, 2024
“Men must not close our eyes and minds to what happens to women in this world. We must fight, alongside them, for them to be believed, at the ballot box; with art; by listening, and change this world for the better.” Neil Gaiman isn’t just one of the...
The March of Kamala’s Brides August 19, 2024
In a recent appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump caused a furore by questioning the racial “identity” of Democrat Kamala Harris. “Is she Indian or is she black?” Trump wondere...
Talk to Me Nicely August 16, 2024
How many times in the last few weeks have I heard the broad strokes of the same story: “No one is having babies”? Millennials are paralyzed by narcissism and indecision. J.D. Vance thinks there’s too many childless cat ladies who don’t have a stake i...
The Well-Trained Boy August 13, 2024
In BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity, British author Ruth Whippman offers readers a window into her mothering journey. This is a beautifully written, often thought-provoking, and disarmingly vulnerable book that begins ...
Ladies in Leotards August 13, 2024
Like so many other people, I tuned in to watch the Paris 2024 Olympics’ Women’s Artistic Gymnastics a couple of weeks ago. I’ve seen women’s gymnastics before—but I’ve never watched it having just finished teaching an intensive university course on f...
Is the Tradwife Queen a Fraud? July 31, 2024
The pioneer dream is deeply engraved in American culture and history. It’s simple but powerful: setting forth into the unknown, with just a few belongings and your immediate family, and creating a self-reliant, flourishing home in an unforgiving envi...
The "Infantile" Simone de Beauvoir June 27, 2024
Seventy-five years ago, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir opened her magnum opus, The Second Sex, with the question that most paralyzes us culturally and politically today: “What is a woman?”As Emina Melonic remarks in her thoughtful essay on the...
