The latest gender studies literature is indistinguishable from satire

Reading the back cover of the soon to be released Me Not You: The trouble with mainstream feminism, I assumed Titania McGrath had churned out a new book. But on further inspection I realised it is in fact the latest from Alison Phipps, Professor of Gender Studies at Sussex University – a disciple of the ‘sex work is work’ and ‘trans women are women’ faux-feminism cult. This book has clearly been written for the hard-of-thinking.

‘Privileged white women use their traumatic experiences to create media outrage,’ reads the blurb, ‘and rely on state power and bureaucracy to purge “bad men” from elite institutions with little concern for where they might appear next.’

It is staggering to see anyone, let alone a so-called feminist scholar, label women who have been traumatised by male sexual violence as ‘privileged’ in this context, however white they are. But the really bonkers bit of that sentence is the suggestion that using the state (i.e.