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I will show that even in this super-rational world increasingly run by super-impartial supercomputers, women are still very much de Beauvoir’s Second Sex – and that the dangers of being relegated to, at best,…
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Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
Of the greatest importance, however, is that since Social Justice has taken such pains to establish absolute hegemony over the discourses relevant to these issues—especially on the left and in the center—other reasonable and moderate voices are the least likely to enter the conversation with reasonable and moderate alternatives to Social Justice’s
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
8 SOCIAL JUSTICE SCHOLARSHIP AND THOUGHT
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
It’s very easy, under conditions of artificial but continually escalating obligation, to find yourself organizing your life around practices you find ridiculous and possibly indefensible. Women have known this intimately for a long time.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
By the lights of the naïve conception, misogyny essentially becomes too psychologistic a notion, on the model of a phobia or a deep-seated aversion. It becomes a matter of psychological ill health, or perhaps irrationality, rather than a systematic facet of social power relations and a predictable manifestation of the ideology that governs them: pa
... See moreKate Manne • Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
It is indeed an example of what we might call the “harder-better” fallacy: that which is the most difficult to achieve is judged the most praiseworthy, regardless of its actual desirability or value.
Kate Manne • Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
The figure of the feminist killjoy teaches us how the minimization of harm and the inflation of power often work together.
Sara Ahmed • The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
The Theoretical view is that the opportunities to which liberal feminists sought equal access are never equally accessible on principle and the promise of equality through liberalism is yet another lie by the powerful used to obscure the irreparable injustices inherent in the system. Theory posits that opportunities are more accessible to some (whi
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
We talk about waves of feminism in a way that strikes me as quite different from other areas of political discourse: why? There is, then, an inbuilt or assumed obsolescence for feminist thinking, rather than a model of amendment, addition, and new centers for new discussions.