Jessa Crispin’s Why I Am Not a Feminist is not an attack on women’s rights. It is an attack on a feminism she believes became too comfortable, individualistic and marketable to transform women’s lives. This detailed summary and critical review examines the book’s most important ideas — and the questions Crispin leaves unanswered.
For decades, American universities have tried to reform fraternities through consent education, hazing bans, suspensions, risk management and task forces. Cornell’s history, national sexual-violence research and the fraternity industry’s own insurance record raise a more difficult question: what if the institution itself is the problem?
There is no single honest ranking of the most dangerous countries for women. Femicide, intimate-partner violence, war, harmful practices and state oppression create different maps of danger, and the risks the world notices are not always the risks most likely to kill women.
Men are repeatedly taught how to avenge women after violence, but rarely how to prevent that violence beforehand. #SaferBecauseOfYou offers boys and men a positive alternative to the manosphere—built around courage, accountability and prevention without possession.
In the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50. But the explanation is often reduced to one thin phrase: men do not talk. This article looks deeper, exploring how male suicide rates are shaped by masculinity, shame, economic pressure, relationship breakdown, social isolation, substance use, access to lethal means and the crisis of identity that can emerge when men feel they have failed at being men.
Thailand’s sex tourism industry is often treated as an open secret, but its history is not mysterious. It was shaped by war, sustained by tourism, fed by poverty, and normalised by foreign male demand.
When Andrew Tate supporters gathered outside a Miami detention centre and began doing push-ups together, the spectacle offered an unusually literal demonstration of performative masculinity. Psychology has a name for the insecurity beneath the performance: precarious manhood.
Matriarchy is usually imagined as the female version of patriarchy – women ruling over men. But anthropology tells a very different story. Drawing on matrilineal and matrifocal societies from around the world, this article shows how matriarchy is centred on social regeneration, kinship and moral authority, rather than domination. Understanding this difference radically changes how we think about feminism, power and governance.
Hair is never just hair. From Kurdish braids cut as trophies, to girls punished for afros, to women in Iran cutting their hair in revolt, this essay explores women’s hair as the most intimate site of feminist resistance—where power meets the body, and the body answers back.
What happens when motherhood feels like a living death? Drawing on Orna Donath’s Regretting Motherhood, this essay confronts the taboo truth of maternal regret, the erasure of women, and why every woman deserves to know the cost before becoming a mother.