Gender, Politics in America “Likability is associated with an emotional connection between candidate and voter that makes a politician worthy of trust” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 May 2019 Likability seems to have emerged as an important personality trait in the late 19th...
Gender, Jobs/Professions, Work “In the early days of coding, women flocked to programming because it offered more opportunity and reward for merit, more than fields like law. Now software has the closed door.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 April 2019 If biology limited women’s ability to code, then the ratio of women to men...
Gender, Semantics “What gender critical feminism really amounts to is a baroque palace of rationalizations built on a foundation of pure disgust” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 April 2019 The term “gender critical” is really a euphemism recently created to replace TERF with...
Gender “There have always been troubling issues of gender politics amongst OTD people” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 March 2018 There have always been troubling issues of gender politics amongst OTD people. OTD men...
Clothing, Femininity “Women who criticize other women for dressing hot are seen as criticizing women themselves…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 February 2018 It’s not good manners for women to tell other women how to dress; that’s...
America, Femininity “#MeToo arises from the failure of empowerment feminism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 February 2018 Once told to be hotties (even judges wanted to be hotties!), girls were next...
Masculinity “The brokenness of the country’s boys stands in contrast to its girls…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 February 2018 The brokenness of the country’s boys stands in contrast to its girls, who still...
Masculinity, Politics in America, Semantics “…people who use ‘snowflake’ as an insult tend to seem pretty aggrieved themselves…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 June 2017 The truth is that people who use “snowflake” as an insult tend to seem...
Gender, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “The imputation of unstated motives instantly renders toxic any conversation in which it is inserted” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 December 2016 In any debate over women’s communal and halakhic roles, the Orthodox community’s version of...
Gender, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy “As much rancor and disagreement as there is in the Modern Orthodox world about women in the ritual sphere or leadership roles, there are many places where women’s participation is universally accepted and indeed welcomed, and where attempts to foster it would be generally agreed-upon and uncontroversial” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 December 2016 As much rancor and disagreement as there is in the Modern Orthodox world about...