Which orifice? What organs? Who cares? Andrea Long Chu says all the quiet parts out loud
Which orifice? What organs? Who cares? Andrea Long Chu says all the quiet parts out loud MARY HARRINGTON The award , in May, of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism to New York Magazine writer Andrea Long Chu, occasioned howls of outrage from gender-critical feminists. This was not prompted by the actual essays mentioned in the award, though. Rather, the fury stemmed from Long Chu’s real claim to fame: saying all the quiet parts out loud on gender ideology. The central provocation on this front is Chu’s 2019 monograph Females , described by Verso as “a genre-defying investigation into sex and lies” and by gender-critical writer Lauren Smith as “ poorly disguised misogyny ”. Females draws together Chu’s personal development toward transgender identification, a re-read of work by SCUM Manifesto author Valerie Solanas, and a baroque theory of pornography and desire, into a central, controversial thesis: “Everyone is female, and everyone hates it”. Gender-critical feminists regularly d