A compelling new book about the virtues of all-girls’ Catholic schools gets much right but cannot resist the impulse to fly the feminist flag and ignore or dump on men.
Tag: feminism
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The Elites, the Popular Classes, and ‘The Bad News Bears’
The American classic that walked a generation through the cultural chaos of the 1970s turns 50 this year.
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Women Are Having Fewer Kids Because They Don’t Want Them
We are unlikely to solve America’s fertility problem unless we ask hard questions about feminism and its priorities.
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Selfish Liberals Hate Selfless Marital Love
A life devoted to empty self-fulfillment will often be quite unfulfilling.
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Women’s Basketball Will Never Be Popular—and Doesn’t Deserve to be Well-Paid
NPR celebrated a new minimum salary of $270,000 per year for WNBA players as merely a “livable wage,” even though the average U.S. salary is less than $65,000.
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Post-Menopausal Radicalism
Post-menopausal feminism wreaks havoc on society and will escalate for several reasons.
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Feminism vs. Feminine Mystery in Film: ‘The Bride!’ and ‘Little Trouble Girls’
Two recent films offer views of feminism and femininity at odds with one another and demonstrating how vacuous Hollywood’s understanding of both has become.
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Charles Bukowski and the Passing of Blue-Collar Lit
Today’s literary world fosters an out-of-touch monoculture at war with masculinity and the blue-collar struggles that made American writers like Bukowski great.
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Dark Woke, Rage Rooms, and the Blinding Narcissism of Online Tribalism
The anger driving so many affluent white liberal women these days can be traced to the blinding narcissism encouraged by woke online movements bleeding into the real world.
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Ilhan Omar, Somali Immigrants, and Female Genital Mutilation
Although Omar claims to be an “intersectional feminist,” her silence on the widespread acceptance of the barbaric and banned practice among Somalis speaks to how difficult it is to assimilate them.
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Good Riddance to Kathleen Kennedy
The Hollywood producer’s departure from Lucasfilm is welcome news, but it will not be enough to save the Star Wars franchise from the woke side of the force.
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Wokeness Isn’t Dead
The idols of the current year are very far from being smashed to pieces and it won’t be journalists or intellectuals who finally manage it.
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Critique or Dodge of Feminism?
Helen Andrews’ assessment “The Great Feminization,” fails to address the root of the problem: the radical ideology of feminism.
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Yes, Hollywood Has Been Feminized, And It’s Ruining Everything
How long will it take for Hollywood to realize what it takes to make money again?
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Pam Grier in Person: Foxy Brown as a Woman in Full
A conversation with the star at the Bethesda Theater.
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Transhumanism, Tech Bros, and the Impulse to Escape Our Humanity
A new book explores the disturbing intellectual roots of transhumanist thinking.
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Five Stories That Show the Left’s Control of the ‘Truth’ Is Slipping
The days of the left controlling the “narrative” and spinning events to suit it are very plainly slipping away as five events from recent days demonstrate.
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The Feminization of American Law
Ilya Shapiro's 'Lawless' is a splendid reflection on his failure to tweet with the so-called woman's voice—an unacceptable offense in today's feminized legal academy.
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How Progressive Researchers Are Trying to Turn Men Into Victims of Sexual Violence
A new “made to penetrate” category of rape attempts to expand the definition of sexual violence and blur the distinction between male and female sexuality.
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‘Toxic Masculinity’ Strikes Again in Texas Floods
In saving the lives of so many during the Texas floods, the name Scott Ruskan has inspired deserved accolades. Why didn’t Daniel Penny?
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Vulnerable Power
In this liminal shift between the old and the new, pop star Sabrina Carpenter seems to embrace something closer to the vulnerability that represents true feminine power.
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The Man Crisis and ‘Iron John’ at 35
Now more than ever, it would be wise to examine the work of the poet who knew what was eating at men’s souls in the modern world.
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Journalism, Feminism, and the Low-Sex Sorority
Journalists of yesterday and today both miss the mark when it comes to understanding the truth of what brings women joy.
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A Quarter-Century Later, ‘American Psycho’ Still Fails to Feminize
How the art of American Psycho got away from and betrayed its feminist artist.
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Edna O’Brien’s Real Feminine Mystique
A new film about the famous Irish writer captures her feminine energy and brilliance and, perhaps unintentionally, shows how such qualities are missed by modern feminism.
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New College of Florida’s Disastrous Stanley Fish Indulgence
Stanley Fish’s promotion of Judith Butler shows how well-meaning but muddled liberals end up protecting our captured institutions from democratic discourse and accountability, often in the name of “defending democracy.”
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Cheering On Trump’s Masculine ‘Reign of Destruction’
It’s time to end the longstanding nonsense feminist academics imposed on both the campus and the wider culture in their efforts to undermine men.
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The Striking Silence Surrounding July 13
There is a wall of silence surrounding both the unknown and the known lessons of the Trump assassination attempt last summer.
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‘Les Femmes’: Moms and Wives Defending Marriage and the Family
A countercultural reading list for people interested in the ongoing fight for the dignity of civilization, marriage, and the family.
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The Betty Friedan Mystique
Betty Friedan has been portrayed as a hero, but it’s not clear exactly what was so heroic or great about the feminist icon.
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Time for Feminism to Take Inventory of its Failing Prescriptions
Feminist lifestyle prescriptions aren’t resulting in feminism sending America its best.
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Punk Rock Feminist Has Revelation While Stripping
A recent memoir from an ’80s punk rocker touches on themes with surprising resonance for people on the right.
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Why Is Abortion So Important to the Left?
Conservatives need to understand what is really going on.
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‘Risky Business’ As Conservative Morality Tale?
“Risky Business” wasn’t supposed to be a sly indictment of capitalism. A coming re-release from the Criterion Collection restores the director’s original intention as a warning about crazy women and the power of sex to destroy men.
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Questioning the Pill Triggers a Big Pharma Backlash
Women learned during the COVID vaccine mandates that pharmaceutical companies are willing to sacrifice their reproductive health for profits. Now they are questioning the health risks of birth control pills, and big pharma has summoned its media allies to silence them.
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What’s in a Naomi?
'Doppelganger' centers around Naomi Klein's personal grievance: Being mistaken for Naomi Wolf.
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Patriarchy or Degeneracy: Christian Masculinity vs. The Red Pill
Mr. Howting is right to recognize the crisis of masculinity in the Church. But, the problem isn’t that the red-pill influencers are speaking the truth, its that Christians are pussyfooting around Church teaching.
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The Problem With “Manning-Up”
Masculinity gurus have only one solution to the scourge of feminism: men manning-up. This is what I call "the other side of feminism."
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Botox Blasey Ford
Christine Blasey Ford is out with a memoir no one asked for about her experience testifying against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Her unconvincing story remains the same, but her face appears to be the beneficiary of her substantial cash windfalls.
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Exodus 90: The Other Side of Feminism
Catholic macho-man influencers tell men to "man up" and fix themselves and their marriages through self-mortification. By contrast, Catholic ladies are told to indulge themselves and "discover their dignity." There is something wrong here.
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Is Taylor Swift Trouble for Trump?
Left-of-center social and economic attitudes are, for Millennial and Generation Z women, the closest thing to not having any politics: They are the path of least resistance—and least reflection.
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Don’t Blame the Patriarchy for ‘Barbie’ Snub
The Oscars have been a den of meaninglessness and identity politics du jour for so long now that it really shouldn’t matter who gets nominated and who gets overlooked.
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Gratuitous Grotesqueness in ‘Poor Things’
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things is now celebrated in Hollywood but, in truth, it is just another feminist revenge story to which creativity comes to die.
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Can Miss America Restore America’s Faith in Merit?
Air Force pilot, Harvard grad, and Top Gun hopeful Madison Marsh was crowned Miss America on Sunday in Orlando, Florida, on a platform of hoping to dismantle stereotypes about women in the military. Through no fault of her own, her bigger challenge will be to restore America’s faith in merit and accomplishment.
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Out of the Toxic Fog of Feminist Anger
Domestic Extremist is a book we desperately need, hitting all the right keys and in the breezy, entertaining tone familiar to anyone who has read its author online.
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Toxic Western Wokeness Exacerbates Middle East Conflict
The West will come to regret dismissing the foundations of civilized society as “social issues” and exporting radical, woke ideologies as a means of combatting the pathologies that already exist abroad. Instead of offering liberation, we have only pushed these peoples toward additional grievances and inspired more violence.
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Hamas Advocacy Exposes Phony Sloganeering of the Left
The left’s hashtag activism about sexual violence is just pure politics meant to manipulate female voters into believing that Democratic policies protect women.
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Feminism, Italian Style
The woke, bisexual new leader of Italy’s Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, offers no real challenge to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the Brothers of Italy Party.
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What We Are Reading: December 2022
Short reviews of Feminism & Freedom, by Michael Levin, and the Sword of Honor trilogy, by Evelyn Waugh.
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Abortion’s Other Victims
The ideology of feminism makes otherwise good and decent people support the murderous practice of abortion.