Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Edwin Leap on the growing maternity deserts and why emergency rooms aren’t equipped to fill the void, Jim Dalrymple II on how fatherhood can be a solution for men looking for purpose, and Louise Perry on what draws women to creating content for OnlyFans. Plus: Simone’s bile, Santa Clara’s warped idea of human sexuality, thinking about The Protocol—and more!
First, emergency room physician Edwin Leap argues that growing maternity deserts should be of concern to all who claim to care about reproductive health.
Next, in honor of Father’s Day, Jim Dalrymple II writes about the sense of purpose his own father gained from fatherhood—and how this might be something more men long for.
Finally, Featured Author Louise Perry offers a theory of why some women are drawn to create OnlyFans content, even when it offers very little financial benefit.
More Great Reads:
- Thinking about The Protocol, Eliza Mondegreen, gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen
- A Clean-up Job for Bullshit Politics, Victoria Smith, The Critic
- Simone’s Bile, Nina Welsch, The Critic
- Santa Clara University’s Crazy Idea of Human Sexuality, Naomi Epps Best, WSJ Opinion
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In critic (and crime novelist) Dorothy Sayers’ essay collection, “Are Women Human?”, one of the first women to graduate from Oxford University makes the case that men and women are essentially more similar than they are different:
“Central to Sayers’s reflections is the conviction that both men and women are first of all human beings and must be regarded as essentially much more alike than different. We are to be true not so much to our sex as to our humanity. The proper role of both men and women, in her view, is to find the work for which they are suited and to do it.”
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