Gender issues speech balanced, informative

Article here. Excerpt:

'“When you look at the way feminists have responded to men’s issues it’s a pretty bad record,” said American journalist Cathy Young at a controversial event in Toronto Thursday night. A movement that was once about equality seems to have transformed in strange ways, its excesses amplified by the internet and campus theatrics.

It’s sad that I even need to describe Young’s talk, entitled “The Politics of Gender and Victimhood”, as “controversial”.

Young - whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Daily Beast, Reason and more - was initially a feminist when she arrived in the U.S. from the USSR in 1980. But after following the movement questions arose and she’s now a critic.

Her engaging and fact-based speech was a far cry from the angry, misogynist chest-thumping “men’s rights” shindig that opponents of similar events on campus have tried to label them.'