Females, by Andrea Long Chu: A Review
“Everyone is female and everyone hates it”
UPDATE 2023: I wrote all these essays back when I was immersed in trans ideology. I detransitioned and I’ve changed my mind about many things. https://youtube.com/@RayAlexWilliams?si=JIEdBcopAIxOPtEW
Chu declares ethics to be “a commitment to a bit,” which tells you everything you need to know about her vision of feminism in this book. There is no real ethical seriousness. No fundamental ameliorative vision. It’s just misery through and through, with no political will.
Andrea Long Chu’s book starts off with a surprising claim: “Everyone is female,” followed immediately by another howler: “The worst books are all by females.”
She then follows this absurdity with a long list of everything that is “female,” including many obvious non-females, indicating that her statement is not to be taken at face value. She basically says every single person or thing is female. But if everything is female, how can that be a meaningful statement? It’s like saying, “Everything is tall.”
So what’s going on here?
First of all, Chu admits, that she’s “not sure” if she wants this book to be a feminist text. That might tell you something. But what’s really going on is that Chu offers a simple thesis about what it means to be female:
