Why You Should Have More Kids
A World That Exceeds Our Control
This week, we're excited to bring you two excellent pieces.
Featured Author Leah Libresco Sargeant recently participated in a debate at Yale arguing in favor of the resolution "Have More Kids." In an adapted version of her remarks, Sargeant argues that openness to children allows us to become more fully human.
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Why You Should Have More Kids
LEAH LIBRESCO SARGEANT
Everyone knows that children are a yes to chaos. The question is this: how much are you willing to tolerate risk and the possible revelation that there are plans greater than your plans, ways greater than your ways?
Even parents who have a planned pregnancy can’t fully plan for the child they’ll receive. A child may come with an extra chromosome. A child can undergo a serious accident or illness that leads to a very different pattern of life. A child can just plain not like the books you thought you’d share with them. Once you say yes to a child, you will have to grow beyond what you thought you could do, whom you thought you could love, and how large you thought you could be.
Making the World Safe for Girls
Our second piece is an exclusive excerpt from Featured Author Jennifer Lahl's new book (with Kallie Fell), The Detransition Diaries. The book tells the stories of seven young people who believed the lies that the gender industry sells—and lived to regret it. Our excerpt takes on the internalized misogyny that is partly responsible for so many women seeking to "opt out" of their given sex.
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Afraid to Be Female
JENNIFER LAHL AND KALLIE FELL
How do we stop this internalized misogyny? How do we learn to let children live outside the boundaries of gender stereotypes without labeling them “nonbinary” and ushering them to the closest gender clinic? How do we make this world safe for girls to grow up female?
Rushing to offer cross-sex hormones and surgeries to remove healthy breasts and other reproductive organs is not the answer.
The Weekly Round-up
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This Week: Normophobia, Andrea Long Chu, and a Women's Sports Lawsuit
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Mary Harrington on our culture's assault on normality, Eliza Mondegreen on Andrea Long Chu's radical pro-sex-change manifesto, Lia Thomas' teammates' lawsuit against the NCAA, the NHS pause on puberty blockers, the results of Ireland's "woman in the home" referendum, a book rec from Erika Bachiochi—and more!
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