You oppose Yaniv. Let’s work backwards.

You’re a progressive, a queer ally, hater of transphobia. But you can’t stomach Yaniv, clearly a paedophilic creep and out of order to make use of a human rights tribunal to get vulnerable women to touch his genitals. You’re also furious at the right and the “TERFs” saying “I told you so!”. You know that …

Men do not repress their emotions.

Patriarchy harms men too, we’re told. Men are taught to push down, hide, repress their emotions, and it makes them all pent up and angry. You would think that anger isn’t an emotion. Why doesn’t that count? Why doesn’t the fact that when England lose a football match, domestic abuse rates spike by 38%, count? In …

How it Began: Seeing Gender Identities as False Prophets for Young People

Graham Linehan asking this question on Twitter got me thinking about this, and I ended up thinking about a blog-post worth’s amount of stuff. I am a gender critical radical feminist – I believe that gender is an imposed hierarchy and not an inner identity. I believe in the complicated phenomenon of sex dysphoria, but …

What are the radfem debate sticking-points and why do we care so much about them?

The gender debate is becoming 'too hot to handle'. Speak boldly on the matter only if you would also boldly enter a witness protection scheme afterwards. So, naturally, the whole thing has become juicy new ideological land for journalists and the media to approach bluntly and incompetently and then profit off the ensuing anger and …

Why trans rights are NOT the new gay rights.

"LGBT" now rolls off the tongue. Trans rights and gay rights are seen as intimately linked, both stemming from the same societal hang-ups and therefore mutually interested in teaming up with each other. Outlets which focused on news relating to gay rights, such as pink news, now also focus on trans-related issues and have a …

Why I’m a feminist and uncomfortable with half naked women: Liberal Feminism’s failings

The sun has come out in England. It's like feeling nostalgia on your skin. I love it, like everyone else. I'm at work, it's my lunchbreak, I'm walking across a campus in my sunglasses to eat my sandwiches in the sun, and I see a girl lying in a bikini. Despite the heat, I freeze. …

This is how men will take advantage of transactivist identity politics.

What is not new, is that an event for women only has been shut down by men. An event for female game developers to host conferences and network has been shut down by men who have been made too intensely uncomfortable by the reality of women being independent beings seeking out and immersing themselves in some fun …

The difference between the “Free-Speech Bus” and Radical Feminism.

Everyone hates the "Free Speech Bus". I guess it is a shit name. Emblazoned with the statements - which we must admit, would be read as trivial truths a couple of decades ago - "It's biology. Boys are boys... and always will be. Girls are girls... and always will be". At first glance it looks …

When feminism is cringing, it’s because it’s not radical. We can tell.

There's a thread of an eerily similar theme running through all the highly publicized liberal feminist messages and associated campaigns which are just, basically, very cringing. I couldn't quite put my finger on what exactly that theme was, but I've realised that it's simply that they're not radical - they don't and won't change any …

The bathroom bill is the destruction of feminism from the inside out.

Here, from Huffington Post, we have "Don't you dare use women's rights to question men and whatever they want to do". This is a response to Trump retracting his promise to enshrine bathroom laws - that individuals can use the toilets corresponding to their 'gender identity' rather than sex - in federal law, instead leaving the …