As I reported recently, the dismantling of the Tavistock clinic in the UK is just another sign that the tide is turning on the gender wars. The Stonewaffen is suffering yet another defeat: their right to bully and cancel is slowly, quietly, being withdrawn. And now, The Guardian is turning
Talk about ‘Simpsons did it!’ In one episode of the venerable TV show – back in the halcyon days before it jumped the shark – Springfield Elementary tries to empower the girls by separating them from the boys. In the girls’ ‘maths’ class, Lisa is dismayed that the maths lesson” consists of
Truth and activism rarely go together. In fact, as ex-Muslim activist Sarah Haider recently pointed out, rigorous truth-seeking is anathema to activists. Because an activist’s primary motivation is to advance whatever their goal is: if the facts contradict that goal, then flagrant disregard for the truth is their only
And, just like that, all the “transgender” athletes melted away like snowflakes. In one of the biggest rebukes of the nonsensical notion that men can become women just by saying so, Fina, the world government body for swimming, has ruled that “transgender” athletes will be barred from competing in women’
Kimberly Ells mercatornet.com Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can’t Win and is a policy advisor for Family Watch International. Matt Walsh’s documentary What is a Woman? exposes the fact that many people, at least
Australian Olympic gold medallist Emily Seebohm has welcomed FINA’s decision to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women’s swimming, saying the sport could now move on with certainty. Newshub Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content
As we count down to an impending mid-term bloodbath for the Democrats, get ready for wall-to-wall coverage of the 6 January show trials. Trying to drum up a silly protest that descended into a riot is all the Dems have got. On every normal measure, they’re toast. The economy
Carolyn Moynihan mercatornet.com Carolyn Moynihan is the former deputy editor of MercatorNet Warning Long read: 1880 words Fifty years ago, United States Supreme Court judges invented a right to abortion for all America after feminists (and not a few men) insisted that, for women to stand as equal citizens
As I’ve said often enough, I read the likes of the Guardian so that you don’t have to. Ditto, Jacobin. But there’s plenty of reason to listen to and read people who are on almost the complete opposite political pole to your own. As Mill said, if
Helen M. Alvaré mercatornet.com Helen M. Alvaré Helen Alvaré is the Robert A. Levy Endowed Chair in Law and Liberty at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, where she teaches and writes in the areas of family law, and law and religion. Today, nearly 50
As you will likely know, Johnny Depp won his lawsuit against Amber Heard. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media have found a way to somehow turn this into a massive defeat for women everywhere. And now, after seven weeks and dozens of witnesses, the jury in the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard
Veronika Winkels mercatornet.com Veronika Winkels is married with four young children. She majored in History and History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne before becoming a freelance writer, published poet, and sometimes-printmaker. Lately she spends more of her time child-wrangling. She is the founding Editor of
Michael Ippolito newsbusters.org Michael Ippolito is a senior politics major at the Catholic University of America studying politics and history from New Jersey. Michael Ippolito is the president of his college republican chapter and former treasurer of his Young Americans For Freedom chapter. Michael enjoys reading, lifting weights, and
“So what do you think? Women. A mistake? Or did he do it to us on purpose?” The Witches of Eastwick Was universal suffrage a mistake, after all? Were all those stuffy chaps, brandishing their cigars from the armchairs of their clubs, right when they huffed and said that women
Whatever its faults, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is a dazzling tapestry of character study. Rand sketches her characters with acid wit and little sympathy. One of her few sympathetic characters, at least initially, is the innocently sincere Catherine Halsey. But even she ends up as a nasty harridan — a
