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April 2026

Gender Roles Are Not a Chore Chart
Individual couples can divide labor however they want. That is not the same thing as a society telling women they were born to scrub pans and manage…
 • ProfessorMeredith
If Gender Roles Are Natural, Why Do They Need So Much Homework?
From conduct books to “wife school,” the history of “natural femininity” is mostly the history of people desperately teaching women to perform it…
 • ProfessorMeredith
Actually, I Can Still Call Myself a Lesbian
Or: the identity auditors have logged on
 • ProfessorMeredith
Half a Semester of Women’s History and Somehow We Landed on Andrew Tate
On vague “good ideas,” young men, and patriarchy’s disturbingly durable marketing department
 • ProfessorMeredith
In His Defense, He Did Warn Us
On “Grievance Feminism,” False Choices, and Men Who Mistake Evasion for Nuance
 • ProfessorMeredith
Welcome to Bitchy History
Please Keep Your Hands, Feet, and Patriarchal Assumptions Inside the Vehicle
 • ProfessorMeredith
Sir, This Is a Bus: A Brief History of Male Entitlement in Public
There I was at eight o’clock at night, tired, cold, and spiritually prepared to go home, watch television, and fall asleep in the deeply unglamorous way…
 • ProfessorMeredith
The Pitt, “Wild Pregnancy,” and the Return of Biological Destiny
Why “women have always done this on their own” is bad history and worse politics
 • ProfessorMeredith
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