Normality is a crime against gender justice. Mon Feb 1, 2021
Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center. What do women want? According to one University of California at Riverside professor, the answer to the mystery which haunted Sigmund Freud is: other women. What do men want? The same professor believes the answer is that men want to be freed from the straightjacket of toxic masculinity, enabling them to enjoy more feminism and gender “equity” in their relationships. UC Riverside’s Jane Ward, author of
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality and professor of – wait for it - Gender and Sexuality Studies, gave an interview with Insider last month in which she declared that surveys taken during the coronavirus pandemic have exposed the “tragedy” of lackluster heterosexual sex and the ongoing misogyny of heterosexual men. “She feels sorry for straight people, especially straight women, who typically report s
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Bennington Review, Hawaii Pacific Review and others. She is currently working on a collection of linked novellas and stories that follow the lives of women in Bangkok and explores the hold of reinvention in both public and personal history.
Reena Shah is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in
Waxwing Magazine, Joyland, BBC, The American Prospect, National Geographic, The Guardian, Third Coast, Writer’s Digest, Texas Review, Chalkbeat, and DNA India, among others. She has received support from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Cuttyhunk Island Residency, and the Fulbright Foundation. She is also the winner of the 2019 Third Coast Fiction Prize and the 2019 Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Award. For many years she was a Kathak dancer and a member of the Parul Shah Dance Company. She currently dances in her socks on Friday and Saturday nights, teaches a fantastic group of third graders, and is at work on a novel-in-s
New York Times nonfiction best-seller list in early November, Andrew Cuomo’s
American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic quickly fell back to earth. Word must have spread that the governor’s self-aggrandizing account of New York’s pandemic management was far less “riveting” than promised by the publisher’s blurb.
By year’s end after Cuomo had again banned indoor dining in New York City, sparred with Mayor Bill de Blasio yet again, and launched a shambolic vaccine rollout the governor’s book was hovering around a (still-respectable) rank of 14,000 out of the millions for sale on Amazon.com. According to the website’s algorithm, shoppers viewing
Michelle Burford has carved out a niche helping famous Black women like Cicely Tyson, Alicia Keys and Gabby Douglas write their memoirs. But she can tell many kinds of stories, including her own.
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Pamela Paul, bestselling, critically-acclaimed author of six books, is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and oversees all books coverage at The New York Times. She is also the host of the weekly Book Review podcast for The New York Times.
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