Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Lisa Selin Davis on the pediatric gender medicine executive order, Brad Littlejohn and Clare Morell on not hacking humanity, and Derek Thompson on our anti-social century. Plus: branding care, what women want, making patriarchy progressive, book club information—and more!
First, at Unherd, Lisa Selin Davis breaks down President Trump’s recent executive order on pediatric gender medication.
Next, Brad Littlejohn and Clare Morell warn of the dangers technology poses to the human person, ranging from surrogacy to pornography. (Of note: FD Editor-in-Chief Erika Bachiochi, and Featured Authors Mary Harrington and Leah Libresco Sargeant recently put their names to a new, family-first technology agenda for the right.)
Finally, at The Atlantic, Derek Thompson describes our new “anti-social century” as one of isolation and solitude.
More Great Reads:
- Are We Willing to Admit That We Need Parents?, Stephanie Murray, The Dispatch
- What Women Want, Ivana Greco, Commonplace
- Child Care Has a Branding Problem, Elliot Haspel, Family Frontier
- Making the Patriarchy Progressive, Victoria Smith, The Critic
- How the Gender Fever Finally Broke, Abigail Shrier, The Free Press
A Fairer Disputations Book Club:
This week marks the beginning of our Fairer Disputations book club on Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’ s Rights Worldwide.
Discussion, led by Featured Author Leah Libresco Sargeant and Patrick Brown, will take place on Substack in February. Subscribe now to receive the discussion posts directly in your email!
Our book club will conclude with a live Zoom session with Sargeant, Brown, and several other Fairer Disputations featured authors. All are welcome to join for the final Zoom, whether or not you’ve been able to read along with us.
