Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Mary Harrington on feminism and identity in the transhuman age, Ben Sixsmith on yelling at women online, and Katherine Dee on the death of the tradwife. Plus: trans activists and women’s refuges, confessions of a female porn addict, the pressure to be single, the essentialism bias in trans medicine, a very thin elephant in the room—and more!
First, Featured Author Mary Harrington discusses what “feminism” means in a transhuman age.
Next, Ben Sixsmith points out that those who attack women online are only deepening the divide between the sexes.
Finally, Featured Author Katherine Dee makes the case that unlike the “trad” movement, the next real counterculture will refuse spectacle.
More Great Reads:
- Trans Activists Still Don’t Understand the Need for Women’s Refuges, Julie Bindel, UnHerd
- Confessions of a Female Porn Addict, Lucy Denyer, The Telegraph
- The Pressure to Be Single, Freya India, GIRLS
- The Essentialism Bias in Transgender Medicine, Christina Buttons, City Journal
- In ‘Wicked,’ There’s a Very Thin Elephant in the Room, Kara Kennedy, The Free Press
- The Case for Banning Surrogate Motherhood, Lois McLatchie Miller, The Wall Street Journal
- Christians Must Not Abandon Feminism, Fiona Melton, Margins of Eden
Fairer Disputations in the News:
After appearing in The Atlantic last week, Fairer Disputations was mentioned this week in the both in both the New York Times and the Harvard Crimson:
First, Featured Author Alex Byrne’s Fairer Disputations piece was quoted in a New York Times article on new passport policies:
And students at Harvard linked Fairer Disputations while calling for wider range of feminist thought in the Women and Gender Studies program:
