Question about Feminism - Nicholas D. Smith responds
With regard to opening doors many women assert that men who do so are being "gentleman" and those who don't are ungentlemanly. Likewise some feminists assert that men are sexist if they open a door...
View ArticleQuestion about Feminism - Richard Heck responds
Only rarely is there a movie that comes out where there is a main female character who is involved is some kind of plot that doesn't involve romantic entanglements with men. If the movie looks good...
View ArticleQuestion about Feminism - Oliver Leaman responds
What's wrong with rape jokes? Response from: Oliver Leaman Nothing at all, they can be hilarious. Just like racist jokes, jokes which poke fun at disabled people, women and religion. The point of...
View ArticleQuestion about Ethics, Feminism, Sex - Sean Greenberg responds
If a woman were to force herself sexually on a man most people would have a hard time imagining how that incident would cause lasting and profound trauma for that man. Why is that? Response from: Sean...
View ArticleQuestion about Feminism - Thomas Pogge responds
According to Hillary Clinton, "Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat." On what conceivable grounds could such a statement be...
View ArticleQuestion about Feminism - Richard Heck responds
Is it possible to make a legally meaningful distinction between porn which is abusive and porn which is very rough? I think this question is very relevant for our time. Response from: Richard Heck...
View ArticleQuestion about Art, Feminism - Andrew Pessin responds
I'm curious what moral distinctions (if any) exist between, for example, the Venus de Milo or the Birth of Venus and "soft" pornography like Playboy? Response from: Andrew Pessin Well I'm definitely...
View ArticleQuestion about Feminism - Louise Antony responds
Feminists often oppose "slut shaming" which is when people denigrate women who are perceived to engage in sexual behavior excessively. Does this mean that promiscuity or (so called promiscuity rather)...
View ArticleQuestion about Feminism, Philosophy - Miriam Solomon responds
Feminists often allege that their is something especially sexist about departments of academic philosophy? What would you day about this charge? One criticism of philisophy is that it doesn't allow...
View ArticleQuestion about Feminism, Language - Charles Taliaferro responds
Are expressions like "women are beautiful" sexist? Doesn't that imply that women exist as something to be admired rather than as beings in and of themselves? Response from: Charles Taliaferro I...
View ArticleQuestion about Feminism - Oliver Leaman responds
Sometimes I read feminists who say that their mission has nothing to do with emasculating men and that they think masculinity is wonderful. I am perplexed since I don't know what this masculinity...
View ArticleQuestion about Ethics, Feminism - Allen Stairs responds
Is a presumptive skepticism of as yet unproven rape allegations immoral, anti-feminist or otherwise problematic? Or is it a matter of justifiably presuming innocence? Response from: Allen Stairs...
View ArticleQuestion about Feminism - Charles Taliaferro responds
Is there too much ideology in philosophy? I consider such areas as "feminist philosophy" to be a contradiction; how can one discover truths while constantly bound by an ideological method? Why not...
View ArticleQuestion about Feminism - Miriam Solomon responds
Does having a mistrust of self identified feminist institutions make you an anti-feminist? When I heard that the university of Colorado invited a group of feminists (I think that's a fair description)...
View ArticleQuestion about Art, Feminism - Nickolas Pappas responds
I recently saw "Gone Girl" (spoiler alert!) and have been reading articles about the portrayal of its female antagonist, who is manipulative and psychotic. Some argue that this portrayal is...
View ArticleQuestion about Feminism - Louise Antony responds
Are feminists (who subscribe to the view) right to claim that all men are necessarily sexist? Perhaps it makes sense to limit the scope of the claim to a particular country, say within the UK....
View ArticleQuestion about Feminism - Miriam Solomon responds
Is structural discrimination a core belief of feminism? I find the claim that women are through all times and societies worse off than men (like in the question posted on on January 23, 2015; ) an...
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