Christina Hoff Sommers
Washington Examiner
Washington, DC, United States
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Past articles by Christina:
Fact-checking Mrs. America
There’s plenty to parody and criticize about Phyllis Schlafly's politics. Waller and company chose to assassinate her character instead. → Read More
Another bogus gender injustice claim made it in the Super Bowl
The wage gap myth endures because it has the support of a passionate and effective lobby that rarely engages directly with critics and skeptics outside of the gender equity universe. → Read More
We’re at risk of turning #metoo into rush to blame all men
Before we consider all men guilty of harassment or abuse until proven innocent, a reality check is in order. → Read More
Christina Hoff Sommers: Reflections on the Google controversy and James Damore's infamous memo
As a rule, anyone who takes up the topic of sex differences has to proceed with care. There are many ways to go wrong. → Read More
Christina Hoff Sommers: The Threat to Free Speech
Silencing speech and forbidding debate is not an unfortunate by-product of intersectionality—it is a primary goal. → Read More
How to make feminism great again
Today's women's movement is out of touch with reality. → Read More
The Media Is Making College Rape Culture Worse
College sexual assault is a very real problem—but news organizations and government bureaucrats do victims no favors when they exaggerate its prevalence. → Read More
5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die
If we're genuinely committed to improving the circumstances of women, we need to get the facts straight → Read More
6 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die
If we're genuinely committed to improving the circumstances of women, we need to get the facts straight → Read More
Title IX: How a Good Law Went Terribly Wrong
The landmark legislation was supposed to bring equality, instead it devastated mens' sports on campus → Read More
Rape Culture is a 'Panic Where Paranoia, Censorship, and False Accusations Flourish'
Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a TIME contributor, and author of several books, including The War Against Boys. → Read More
'Free to Be' Boys and Girls: 40 Years After the Failed Gender Revolution
1974's 'Free to Be... You and Me' feels like an eternity ago. And, amazingly, kids and adults have yet to morph into mutually respectful, non-gendered human persons. → Read More
No, Women Don’t Make Less Money Than Men
It’s the bogus statistic that won’t die—and president deployed it during the State of the Union—but women do not make 77 cents to every dollar a man earns. → Read More
Defending Freedom Feminism
Not reactionary, says the author, but rather a call for a reality-based, liberty-centered, male-respecting, judicious feminism. → Read More
Masculinity Is More Than a Mask
Is it O.K. to tell boys to "be a man"? An upcoming film that is much buzzed about on the web ignores the real differences between the sexes → Read More
Masculinity is More Than a Mask
Are school shooters and mass murderers born out of an aggressive emphasis on masculinity in our society? The trailer for filmmaker and feminist activist Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new documentary, “The Mask You Live In,” would have us think so. → Read More
Margaret Thatcher Showed the World What a Woman Can Do
When my book Who Stole Feminism? was published in 1994, I was subjected to an array of feminists’ epithets — anti-woman, traitor to my gender, backlasher. → Read More