Published inAn Injustice!·Aug 10Gay Male Misogyny and the Game Theory of GenderWhy are gay men and women hating in bed together? — Gay male misogyny: What distinguishes it as gay male? Why does it happen? Why do gay men do it? What do we do to others when we do it? What do we do to ourselves when we do it? And what can we do about it? I use the word…Feminism11 min readFeminism11 min read
Published inAn Injustice!·Aug 21, 2022Sex and Gender: A Metaphor for the IneffablePeople tend to think of sex and gender metaphorically. Whatever the science, the data, the findings, or the so-called facts, our brains like to conceptualize this dimension of human nature and experience in what are basically images: binary, category, continuum, spectrum, and the like. …Sex3 min readSex3 min read
Published inAn Injustice!·May 12, 2022The Fetus as Penis: Men’s Self-interest vs. Abortion RightsWhy the war against reproductive freedom for women is about defending male supremacy — Men as a class are devoted to the sex act that deposits their semen in a vagina— “in situ” as men have so tellingly named their target. And men as a class are firmly attached to the idea that any issue resulting is proof positive they are manly. …Abortion Rights7 min readAbortion Rights7 min read
Nov 21, 2021Why Talking About “Healthy Masculinity” Is Like Talking About “Healthy Cancer”I had the dubious distinction of being cited by Missouri senator Josh Hawley in his October 31, 2021, speech at the National Conservatism conference in which he deplored “the Left’s attempt to give us a world beyond men.” The speech got a lot of bounce — a lot of it…Masculinity9 min readMasculinity9 min read
Apr 18, 2021Andrea Dworkin’s Last RapeHer harrowing experience is now a theater piece. This is the backstory. [This essay was originally published in 2014 in a UK webzine called Feminist Times, whose archive is no longer online. I have retrieved my text from the Wayback Machine and updated it.] Soon after Andrea and I met…Rape8 min readRape8 min read
Published inAn Injustice!·Apr 12, 2021We All Need a Gender Off-RampAnd we shouldn’t bicker over whose is better — One hears a great deal these days about the cornucopia of human efforts to resist or escape the hegemony of gender. Some of the chatter is judgmental and disapproving. Some is extolling and affirming. …Transgender4 min readTransgender4 min read
Apr 8, 2021Andrea Dworkin Was Not TransphobicA radical interogation of gender, a memoir from our life together [This essay was originally published April 28, 2014, in a UK webzine called Feminist Times, whose archive is no longer online. …Gender20 min readGender20 min read
Jan 7, 2021How Did Trump Make So Many Republican Men His Bitches?“We can never again underestimate the political appeal of toxic masculinity. It inspires loyalty like nothing else.” — Kate Manne on Twitter, November 4, 2020 In Trump’s domination and humiliation of his morally gutless male sycophants, we have witnessed a gendered spectacle on the national stage that has broken the…Manhood5 min readManhood5 min read
Dec 21, 2020Why Human Oppression HappensA simple explanation for people raised to be a man “The purpose of theory is to clarify the world in which we live, how it works, why things happen as they do.” — Andrea Dworkin “The commitment to ending male dominance as the fundamental psychological, political, and cultural reality of…Gender14 min readGender14 min read