A few months ago, my husband and I schlepped our kids to a phone store in a large outdoor mall. Eyeing a few large concrete balls like the ones you see outside Target, my daughters asked if they could stay outside and play while my husband and I ran our errand inside the shop. I […] The post The Limits of Maternal Intuition and the Downsides of the Digital Village appeared first on Fairer Disputations.| Fairer Disputations
The number of trans-identified youth is spiking. But so is the number of kids with autism. And with ADHD. The increased number of children of these diagnoses (and others) raises obvious questions. Was this experience always common, but we weren’t looking? Is the rise driven by an environmental change? Is there an element of social […]| Fairer Disputations
Sophie Gilbert wrote her new book, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves, because she wanted “to understand how a generation of young women came to believe that sex was our currency [and that] our objectification was empowering.” On one level, Gilbert, a Pulitzer-Prize nominated journalist and staff writer […] The post Porn, Pop Culture, and the Future of Feminism: Sophie Gilbert’s Girl on Girl appeared first on Fairer Disputations.| Fairer Disputations
Elon Musk is a father, I suppose. He has at least fourteen biological children and is committed to having many more that he “provides” for out of his vast wealth. And yet it somehow feels wrong to use the word “father” to describe what he is up to, something that summons forth scare quotes when […] The post Facing Fatherhood appeared first on Fairer Disputations.| Fairer Disputations
“In human government, those who are in authority rightly tolerate certain evils, lest certain goods be lost, or certain evils be incurred… ‘If you do away with harlots, the world will be convulsed with lust.’” So wrote Thomas Aquinas, quoting Augustine of Hippo, in the Summa Theologiae, some 750 years ago. Since the thirteenth century, […] The post How (Not) to Abolish a Vice appeared first on Fairer Disputations.| Fairer Disputations
What the post-woke era means for marriage, manhood, and meaning In February 2022, Allison P. Davis, a features writer for The Cut, earned her Nostradamus bona fides: “A Vibe Shift is Coming,” her piece was titled. The subhead: “Will any of us survive it?” Davis’ piece popularized that now-omnipresent phrase, coined by consultant Sean Monahan, […]| Fairer Disputations
January is a hectic month at the gym. I race over right after school drop-off, just to get a parking spot. The treadmills are often taken, and it may take a little muscle to get a bench. By mid-February things will have calmed down, and by April we’ll be back to “Cheers bar” days, just […]| Fairer Disputations
In my book Gender‑Critical Feminism, I argued that consuming the products of the sex industry is a paradigm example of unethical consumption. Discussion of unethical consumption focuses on injustices in the supply chain of a product, anywhere from the extraction of raw materials through to the selling by the final retailer, and looks at whether […]| Fairer Disputations
Ninety-three percent of time management books were written by men. This is a problem, says self-improvement guru, Kendra Adachi. In her recent book, The PLAN, Adachi advocates for an integrative approach to time management. While most (male) productivity writers view time as something to be controlled or mastered, Adachi views time differently. She recommends the […]| Fairer Disputations