People 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. …

Why 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. …

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…

Her 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…

And 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. …

A 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. …

“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…

A 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…