Sophie Lewis’s Case Against Feminism

‘Most people live in a crackpot world where the sky is green,” Curtis Yarvin wrote recently. And while “most people,” of course, don’t, extremists on either side of a given issue often do. This is the case for independent academic and essayist Sophie Lewis, a person who has made a career of arguing for green-sky ideas like “full surrogacy now” and the abolition of motherhood and the nuclear family. In Lewis’s latest book Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation, she sets out to discredit every form of feminism except her own, the obviously correct one in her eyes. This is another green-sky idea that not much of anyone wants, but examining it offers us the opportunity to ask some large and basic questions about feminism, such as: “Has it always been all good?” And: “Is this still a category we need?”