Category: Men and Women

WPHF launched the Invest-In-Women Global Campaign to mobilize $300 million to support female leaders working on the frontlines

1 Single woman shares the hilarious ‘deal breaker’ she uses when she doesn’t want a second date It’s uncomfortable for people to tell someone they met for a first date that they aren’t interested in a second one because nobody enjoys hurting another person’s feelings. TikTokker Jo Brundza has mastered the art […]

‘Hip-hop Owes Female Rappers More,’

Hip-hop turned 50 this month and while much of the surrounding conversation has focused on celebrating rap’s past (how a Bronx “back-to-school jam” exploded into a cultural juggernaut) and its future (it is indeed very much female), writer and culture critic Shamira Ibrahim is spending the present excavating […]

National Feminism

Faith, The Entire Family, and Folk Birdman’s Blog Jun 12, 2023 It is my conviction that gender roles are renegotiated every generation relative to social, economic, and technological factors. This is not to say that faith or tradition play no role in defining gender relations. They most certainly […]

Is Ana Kasparian Red Pilled?

Co-host of The Young Turks, Ana Kasparian, has suddenly found herself ejected from the left after disagreeing with the latest revolutionary progressive doctrine. Artist and Youtuber Gio Pennacchietti joins me to explore whether Kasparian is a potential ally or a danger to be avoided.

I Was 19

Caitlin Johnstone Jul 5, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Caitlin Johnstone): I was 19 the first time I was raped. Backpacking through Europe, drugged, woke up being sodomised over a toilet bowl in some Italian hotel bathroom. Blood everywhere. Memories were fuzzy through […]

Exiting the Sex Wars

Alex Kaschuta Can we heal our divide in a rageful time? The backlash to mass feminism is not surprising. Decades of cultural programming have assured us that men and women are interchangeable human units, and that any deviation from this norm results from stigma and oppression. But then […]

“We Are All Real Housewives!”

Sponsored by NYU Press Last weekend the NYR Online published “Wages for Housewives,” an essay by the scholar and critic Anna Shechtman on the reality TV series The Real Housewives. The title alludes to the work of the Marxist feminist theorist Silvia Federici, who in 1974 argued that women’s housework under […]

How We Talk About Sexual Violence

“Me Too has been a movement driven by the written word: the personal experiences shared on social media, the reporting published—and funded—by newspapers and magazines,” writes Elaine Blair in our May 25 issue. But when it comes to film, she asks, “What is it exactly that the medium has to offer?” Examining the […]

Legal abortions dropped by 32,000 after Roe was overturned

Theara Coleman Legal abortions dropped by 32,000 after Roe was overturned Harold Maass Why Republicans are worried about Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Theara Coleman The debate over Clarence Thomas’ luxury vacations David Faris Succession‘s shocking twist Joel Mathis Will Biden’s big EV push work? Brendan Morrow Ariana Grande addresses concerns about her weight Theara Coleman America’s […]

Female rage

Katherine Dee 17 hr ago Hi friends. Next week, we’re back in business with some very cool guest and archival posts. Substack recommends I throw these in. But in the meantime, here’s what’s been on my mind. Quite possibly nothing new. Just a new format. Female rage. Since […]

Is dating beyond repair?

A major theme of my work is centered on the dysfunctional state of the present-day West. Indeed, we live in technologically impressive times and have unprecedented levels of economic opportunity that prior generations would absolutely kill for. If you live in a Western, First World country, you should […]

The industry #MeToo forgot

February 26, 2023 Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of our top reads of the week.   On the agenda today: Allegations of sexual abuse, hard drugs, and violence at a top insurance […]

The Artificial Woman

How Traditionalists and Leftists alike have Destroyed the Woman Megha Lillywhite Dec 29, 2022 There is a poem by Pushkin called The Hapless Knight. It is about a knight who finds his nobility against the image of the immaculate woman, the perfect woman. She is worthy enough that […]

A Second Look at the Second Wave

Sponsored by Zerogram Press On January 26 Sam Huber reviewed My Name is Andrea, Pratibha Parmar’s documentary about the feminist writer Andrea Dworkin, for the NYR Online. “The film is most valuable,” Huber writes, “for its conviction that Dworkin’s dual commitment to language and politics constituted a single thread running taut […]

Emancipation’s Limitations

New York Review of Books Sponsored by Classical Pursuits Sean Wilentz The Emancipators’ Vision Was abolition intended as a perpetuation of slavery by other means? Natalia Ginzburg and Alba de Céspedes On Women: An Exchange “That article of mine spoke of women in general, and said things we all know: […]