So, this year. There was this thing nominated for a Hugo. You might have heard of it — “Transhuman and Subhuman,” a collection of essays nominally on the subject of science fiction by John C. Wright. It was in the Hugo packet. One of the essays is the novel-length anti-feministContinue Reading
The Internet has already had its fun with the confessional essay written by the drunken layabout husband I like to think of as flooded-with-awe dude. I felt moved to comment, but it took me a couple of weeks (roughly a million years Internet time) to figure out what I wantedContinue Reading
About a week ago, yet another violently disturbed young man killed a bunch of people for no reason. Yes, he was a misogynist of the most toxic kind, with a grandiose and visceral hatred directed at both the women who denied him his “rightful” share of their affection, and atContinue Reading
Here are some ridiculous things that conservative anti-feminists recently had to say about feminism: Conservative Women Celebrate Women’s History by Criticizing Feminism. I can’t believe how much staying power these narratives have. The anti-feminist right has been making the same claims since I was a kid. I’ve never understood whyContinue Reading