Femaleist

The femaleist premise could be summarized as: Yes, we are different—wanna make something of it?

“What my book does, I think, is say, Let’s look at ourselves and not feel defensive,”’ says Mill Valley writer Dianne Hale, author of “Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science Is Redefining What Makes Us Female” (Bantam), published last month. Hale and the authors of the two similar books have been described as “femaleists” rather than feminists.

The ad industry portrayed the role reversal that feminists have coveted for the past twenty years . . . the femaleist party line that women are more "manly" than men could ever hope to be!

Even in her critique of evolutionary psychology — a book heralded by Barbara Ehrenreich as the "chief manifesto of the new 'femaleist' thinking" — Natalie Angier expresses just this sort of impatience with perspectives from the usual critics of bioreductivism (feminists, progressives, and perhaps especially social scientists).

I am a “femaleist.”I think that beer, when at its best, empowers women.