Gender, Sex, Feminists, and the Drive to Abolish Male and Female




The Federalist Radio Hour show

Summary: Ashley McGuire is the author of the new book Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female. McGuire explores some the areas in which culture attempts to deny any differences between sexes and how gender neutrality is harming children. McGuires book covers a range of sex and biology issues including bathroom bills, women in the military, childrens toys, and womens competitive sports. I think we have second wave feminists to blame for getting us to this point because they were the ones who pushed this idea in the first place, she said. They pushed the argument that our maleness and our femaleness is something thats socialized, that these are arbitrary categories...and we need to eradicate the biological differences. From 50 Shades of Grey to John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Hollywood knows no limit to double standards. Suddenly when you have Beyonce or other female stars literally glamorizing violence against women... we are left without any tools to say this is disempowering women when were told that whatever choice a women makes, its our job to support it, she said.