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In actuality, none of these narratives bear any close resemblance to the facts. This outrage is manufactured by a “female first” primary social order, with it originating from a toxic version of feminism that is no longer about equality. But rather, female dominance and male submission.
Steve From Accounting • The Unplugged Alpha: The No Bullsh*t Guide To Winning With Women & Life
Principled Opposition: Example 3 We affirm that discrimination and bigotry against sexual minorities remains a problem in society and requires addressing. We deny that this problem can be solved by queer Theory, which attempts to render all categories relevant to sex, gender, and sexuality meaningless. We contend that homophobia and transphobia are
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
By the early 2000s, the intersectional shift in feminism had become undeniable. Previous feminist scholarship and activism treated women as a class and sought to create positive change for that class. As the influence of applied postmodernism crept into feminism, however, the focus switched from material disadvantages within social structures like
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
The world carried women down this river so swiftly once they acknowledged they might even consider the choice. ‘Maybe’ became 2.5 in a flash. Plans to ‘go back part-time’ evaporated into fetid air. The only way to stop the slide was a firm ‘no’. Her birthday in a week. Thirty-four. Her mother and Gen were the only ones who knew. What good were birt
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The changes to “dis/abled”1 scholarship and activism in the 1980s can be best understood as a shift from understanding disability as something that resides in the individual to viewing it as something imposed upon individuals by a society that does not accommodate their needs.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
As of this writing, Title IX again prohibits discrimination based on gender identity…which means that a biologically male student who identifies as female is eligible to compete in women’s and girls’ sports.