Gender Different Reactions to Summers’ Comments vs Jenners’ Comments on Mens’ & Womens’ Brains Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 June 2015 Do women and men have different brains? Back when Lawrence H. Summers was president...
Gender “People who haven’t lived their whole lives as women…shouldn’t get to define” women Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 June 2015 People who haven’t lived their whole lives as women, whether Ms. Jenner or Mr....
Gender “By defining womanhood the way he did to Ms. Sawyer, Mr. Jenner and the many advocates for transgender rights who take a similar tack ignore…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 June 2015 The drip, drip, drip of Ms. Jenner’s experience included a hefty dose of male...
Gender, Talmud “The metaphor of sex as eating clearly serves as a significant means for rabbis to think about and structure their Torah of sexuality and sexual practices—and of gender and gender relations” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 March 2015 The metaphor of sex as eating clearly serves as a significant means for rabbis...
Gender, Haredim/Haredi-ism “An entire generation is being taught that women and girls should not be seen because seeing them can lead to sin” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 February 2015 An entire generation is being taught that women and girls should not be seen...
Gender, Semantics “…calling oneself a “slut” doesn’t allow a girl or woman to wrest the term away from those who would use it to judge her” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 February 2015 In a milieu where females are hypersexualized, embracing the word slut does not seem...
Gender “…the tendency among women to practice witchcraft served as a means of expressing the feminine desire for power” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 October 2014 One social aspect of witchcraft can now more readily be understood. The emphasis in...
Gender, Talmud “Sorcery as practiced by women constituted insurrection against the social structure no less than sorcery practiced by men” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 October 2014 Whereas the biblical period had prophetesses, charismatic women in positions of influence and power,...
Culture, Gender “…in doing away with patriarchal authority, we have also, perhaps unwittingly, killed off all the grown-ups” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 October 2014 In the world of politics, work and family, misogyny is a stubborn fact of...
Masculinity “The masculinity of the ancient was measured by two criteria” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 August 2014 The masculinity of the ancient was measured by two criteria: (1) his prowess in...