Sex Scandal
The Drive to Abolish Male and Female
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Sex Scandal
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Erin Bennett
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Ashley McGuire
About this listen
Welcome to the troubling age of sex denialism - the age of gender-neutral labels, rigidly enforced equality, unisex spaces, and the systematic eradication of sexual difference. In her debut book, Sex Scandal, journalist Ashley McGuire investigates the alarming nationwide push to ignore the natural, biological distinctions between men and women that have been at the core of functioning human society since the dawn of time.
McGuire reports shocking examples of progressive sex denialism - from American schools, offices, bathrooms, and bedrooms - and reveals the most startling and alarming trend of all: that the frontline victims of our new "gender neutral" world are young women and girls, the very people progressive activists claim to be championing.
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well written! Loved it
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Excellent book
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Never once does McGuire seem to get her head around the difference between gender and sex. Never once does she step back far enough to realize she’s telling women who they are and what they should do/be. Never once does she show a glimmer of insight into *where* sex differences might come from. She can only point and say ‘Look. Difference. Man. Woman. Different.’
The weirdest thing is how well structured this book is. I guess you can be great at one thing and abysmal at everything else. Or maybe she just had a phenomenal editor.
Overall, this is damaging material.
McGuire seems to have as much genuine concern for women as she had for the passed out student she left being pushed around in a shopping trolley by a group of triumphant, drunk, frat bros.
Honey, I get that you were scared. I get that your fight/flight instincts carried you away. I get that you didn’t call campus security or the police because sometimes when we’re really scared we don’t think to do things like that. But, dude, since you didn’t do those things you don’t get to use that story years later as proof of anything. Not the ‘dangers of hook up culture’. Not your disgust at sex work. Not your anti-sex, anti-women, puritanical, transphobic rhetoric. Nothing.
Because you don’t know anything about what was actually happening there. Or whether the person in that shopping trolley was really passed out. Or actually in desperate need of saving. Or, indeed, in the process of being saved.
Just like you know nothing about the topic of sex and gender. Even though you wrote an entire freaking book about it.
Dangerous drivel
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For a book so focused on “the facts”, this was remarkably lacking in precisely that. It quotes things like, “99% of people would agree [with my proposition…]” with no evidence to support this. Rhetorical flourish is fine, but don’t use it to rebut statistical arguments.
It also deliberately obscures examples for its own purpose. For example, it cites the example of a male swimmer being classified as female. This is not the case - due to originally well-meaning legislation (Title IX) being misinterpreted/misapplied, a male swimmer wasn’t forced to compete in the women’s team (there was no men’s swim team, individuals must not be discriminated from participating in sports due to gender, so rather than make a men’s swim team, his college told him to swim in the female team.)
To be honest, I did not get much further than chapter two. I’m all for “getting out of your bubble”, but deliberate obfuscation and apparent bad faith arguments is frustrating and not an enjoyable listen.
Very poor.
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The author believes women shouldn’t be in the military due to male servicemen sexually assaulting them, believes women are at fault for their husbands affairs if they earn more as that hurts the man’s ego, and believes that contraception for both men and women is a bad thing.
While there are some issues raised regarding gendered safe spaces eg. bathrooms , the author explains all the possible risks, without explaining how rare these are, or suggesting any other solutions that make trans people safe. You could get better analysis of this topic in a buzzfeed article.
The author does explain in the final couple of chapters that not all the gendered stereotypes are true for everyone, and that some of the issues where she has compared men to women, she has only focused on comparing women to mens strengths, but this is should have been mentioned throughout for her analysis to seem unbiased.
Overall this book makes me sympathise with the author, because if she believes women’s and trans issues need to work around men being disrespectful, predatory, fragile ego-d and uncaring (a very crude stereotype mentioned throughout), rather than seeing all these stereotypes as a solvable consequence of the patriarchy, I can’t imagine how men (including her husband) have treated her throughout her life.
If Mike Pence wrote a book on gender.
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