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...
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...
Jewish Education, Orthodoxy “In Israel, the women’s learning movement…was not viewed as threatening, but rather as a natural outgrowth of women’s changing position in the world” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 June 2017 In Israel, the women’s learning movement preceded the Orthodox feminist movement. It was not...
Scholarship “Epistemological insiderism not only stakes out certain domains as belonging to persons with certain identities; it also risks boxing persons with those identities into specific domains” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 June 2017 …the Tuvel affair raises issues that go beyond the controversial notion of transracialism. First,...
Jobs/Professions “Failure to acknowledge a woman’s hard-earned professional title while men are awarded theirs, even when unintentional, has profound implications and reinforces the perception of women having lower status” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 March 2017 Failure to acknowledge a woman’s hard-earned professional title while men are awarded theirs, even...
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...