As you get closer to equality, you get more pornography. True patriarchal societies like Saudi Arabia do not allow pornography because women are not allowed to turn their bodies into a commodity; women are chattel. — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century in France, "the Golden Age of Women." The next wave in the 20th century comes from Sweden, one… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive this. If… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job. — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
The division [between how much housework men and women do] is declining across all advanced economies - not for the reasons that people want,… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in a home.… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Actually the family is still the core social unit. Culturally, traditional masculinity was a removed father. That was a false conception of masculinity and… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece,… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what does that… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
When you look at how men and women are living together, there are two processes at work. One, women are rising in the middle… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
I don't really mind it when Trudeau calls himself a feminist because, you know, he did the half-female cabinet; that's something to be proud… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
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