Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Madeleine Kearns on what she went through to meet her daughter, Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman on the rise and fall of gender-affirming therapeutic care, and Lyman Stone on the women who attract high-powered men. Plus: the danger of women’s weakness, age verification software and porn, bringing up babies, pain during C-sections—and more!
First, Madeleine Kearns tells of her journey through infertility to health and motherhood—and asks why much of “fertility care” for women ignores the root causes of infertility.
Next, psychologists Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman discuss why “gender-affirming” therapeutic care is on the decline in America—and around the world.
Finally, Lyman Stone looks at the numbers to determine whether “high-status men” are threatened by female achievement.
More Great Reads:
- UnMuted episode 21, featuring Eliza Mondegreen, Jenny Poyer Ackerman and Eliza Mondegreen, TransMuted
- The Danger of Women’s Weakness, Leah Libresco Sargeant, Other Feminisms
- Age Blockers Can’t Save Kids from Porn, Valerie Stivers, UnHerd
- Is This the End of Genderism?, Kathleen Stock, UnHerd
- Is the Right Turning Embryos into a Transhumanist Experiment?, Mary Harrington, UnHerd
- Bringing Up Babies, Lane Scott, The Claremont Review of Books (Older piece recently out from paywall)
- Face Eating Leopards, Mary Harrington, Mary Harrington (paywalled)
Fairer Disputations Recommends:
The New York Times’s podcast series The Retrievals Season Two focuses on the pain many women feel during C-sections. Recent studies have shown that between 8-11% of women who undergo C-sections endure some degree of pain during surgery. Why is this pain so often ignored?
Related: Why Do Thousands of Women Feel the Pain of Their C-sections?, Erica Sloan, SELF
