Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Pamela Paul with a message for girls about women’s strength, Mary Harrington on Lily Phillips and spreadsheet egrecore, and Sarah Ditum on Ariana Grande’s body. Plus: Wifejak, the need for adults, token women, Christine de Pizan, and more!
First, Pamela Paul argues that we need to tell the truth about being a woman—and not shy away from women’s unique strengths.
Next, Featured Author Mary Harrington on what might have driven Lily Phillips’s self-destructive behavior. (Related: Poppy Sowerby on OnlyFans’s dirty secret and Featured Author Louise Perry on “The Myth of Female Agency“.)
Finally, Sarah Ditum argues that sometimes it is appropriate to—gently—discuss women’s bodies in public.
More Great Reads:
- Wifejak, Icon of the Normal, Sohrab Ahmari, First Things
- Puberty Blocker Ban is Not the End of NHS Gender Ideology, Josephine Bartosch, UnHerd
- Canceled for Telling the Truth About Sex, Connie Schaw, Compact
- The Need For Adults, Freya India, GIRLS
- Just Call Me Token Woman, Elizabeth Oldfield, Fully Alive
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Watch Fairer Disputations Editor-in-Chief Erika Bachiochi join the Intercollegiate Studies Institute to discuss Christine de Pizan—a writer in medieval France who devoted her work to studying the status of women and statecraft and government.
