Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Jason S. Carroll, Brad Wilcox, Brian J. Willoughby, and Michael Toscano on protecting children from pornography, Janice Turner on why we shouldn’t relax surrogacy restrictions, and Marilyn Simon on what girlbosses miss in reading Shakespeare. Plus: manic pixie dream girl nightmare, women’s studies on the chopping block, the perils of BDSM, and grooming gangs.
First, an essay aruing that recent age verification laws are necessary to protect children from the degrading images of porn. (It’s also worth reading the Women’s Liberation Front amicus curiae brief in the legal case on these age verification laws).
Next, Janice Turner shows what is wrong with the surrogacy industry, which treats women as “gestational vessels for the rich.”
Finally, Marilyn Simon shows what the “girlboss” reading of Shakespeare misses.
More Great Reads:
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl Nightmare, Mary Harrington, Mary Harrington (paywalled)
- After 50 Years, Several Women’s Studies Programs on Chopping Block, Micaiah Bilger, College Fix
- Grooming Gangs at the End of History, Victoria Smith, The Critic
- Neil Gaiman and the Perils of BDSM, Kathleen Stock, UnHerd (includes some graphic details)
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Fairer Disputations is now a publication of the new Mercy Otis Warren Initiative at the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University.
If you don’t know about Mercy Otis Warren, one of America’s Founding Mothers, it’s worth checking out these recent pieces about her life and writing:
Our Forgotten Founding Mother, Brenda Hafera, Law & Liberty
Enduring Memories of the American Revolution, Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug, Law & Liberty
