Truth and Silencing: Notes from the Gender Wars Here are two propositions that I take to be trivially true: (1) Women = Adult Human Female. (2) Lesbians are same-sex, and not same-gender, attracted. Now, I did not, when I first stumbled across Rachel McKinnon, Lily Madigan, Amanda Jette-Knox and friends…

A Woman’s Place is Marching On: WPUK Speech — 22/11/19 Until 2018 I was happily philosophizing about, and defending, the objective or mind-independent existence of, perfectly ordinary things such as trees, tables, and clownfish. Because, and this will be thoroughly unsurprising to anyone acquainted with philosophers, there are those who…

A Note On Recent Events Two nights ago, all was normal in the Twitter-verse: Eva was wine drinking and musing about Ocado-grown vegetables; The Cuddler was swearing at everyone; and Andrew was cis-hetero-male-ing with his endless sock-feet photos. Then this happened: Since I have never interacted with this person (indeed…

Lesbian Strength Speech — 7/9/2019 I want to begin by saying something about my experiences as a gender critical lesbian in academia. Like many here, I stumbled into this debate naively believing that some characters must be a joke: it simply never occurred to me that apparently sane people really…

Open Letter to Larry Krasnoff (Philosophy, College of Charleston), John Gordon (Director, how to: Academy), and Little, Brown and Company concerning Dr Rachel McKinnon’s Social Media Conduct *OVER 500 SIGNATURES AND STILL COUNTING* Edited (05/09/2019) to include Dr McKinnon’s tweets in which she states that Vancouver Rape Relief — which…