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
Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Emi Nietfeld with a story of surrogacy gone wrong that raises questions about the industry, Jean M. Twenge on the marriage effect on women’s happiness, and Mélina Magdelénat on how to overcome the institutional paradox of care. […]| Fairer Disputations
Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Josephine Bartosch on the moral panic over losing access to porn, Liv Hagye with considerations on legal prohibition and social acceptance of porn and abortion, and Elliot Haspel and Ivana Greco on coming to a truce in […] The post This Week: Moral Panic Over Losing Porn, Social Acceptance and the Law, and a Truce in the Mommy Wars 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
Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Michelle Goldberg on Lauren Southern and antifeminism confronting male power, Victoria Smith on why “sex is binary” is common sense, and Poppy Sowerby on the hidden victims of OnlyFans. Plus: a lecture series on the philosophy of […]| 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
Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Richard Dawkins on what makes men and women different, Darby Saxe on whether feminism is a scapegoat for late-stage capitalism, and Maytal Eyal on putting an end to mom guilt. Plus: the virtue ethics of not being […] The post This Week: Dawkins on Men and Women, Feminism as Scapegoat, and Enough Mom Guilt 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
Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Sean Fischer on the new app that’s helping men quit porn, Beatrice Scudeler on the insidiousness of modern-day eugenics, and Kaeley Triller Harms on what Lauren Southern’s story teaches us about rape culture. Plus: why marriage survives, […] The post This Week: The App Getting Gen Z Off Porn, Modern Eugenics, and Rape Culture appeared first on Fairer Disputations.| Fairer Disputations
When Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir Eat, Pray, Love was published in 2006, its subtitle—One Woman’s Search for Everything—promised readers insight into a familiar conundrum: how to navigate the elusive ideal of “having it all.” Almost twenty years on, we might ask whether we mistook “more” for “enough.” Gilbert’s book sparked a surge in yoga classes, retreat-based […] The post The Wellness Trap appeared first on Fairer Disputations.| Fairer Disputations
Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Julie Bindel on the men who say no to porn, Samantha Stephenson on the false promises of the egg freezing industry, and Patrick T. Brown with a proposal to make life easier for expectant and new mothers. […]| Fairer Disputations
This Week In Sex Realist Feminism All Sections Feminism and Rights Read More → Gender and the Body Read More → Sex and Exploitation Read More → Work and Family Read More → A new feminism is emerging. Fairer Disputations is an international community of scholars, public intellectuals, and journalists that aims to advance a […]| Fairer Disputations
When young women and men think about their fertility plans, they encounter plenty of pitches to wait for the right time. You might not be ready for children now, and you might be too early in your career to afford egg freezing for children later, but if you sign up for a baby-splitting bargain with […]| 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
