Cathy Young

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Cathy Young
Born
Yekaterina Jung

(1963-02-10) February 10, 1963 (age 61)
Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Other namesCatherine Alicia Young
EducationRutgers University, New Brunswick (BA)
OccupationJournalist

Catherine Alicia Young (born Yekaterina Jung;

American libertarian monthly Reason, and a regular columnist for Newsday. In 2022, she joined The Bulwark as a staff writer. She describes her political views as "libertarian/conservative".[2]

Life and career

Born in Moscow to a Jewish family,[3] Ekaterina Jung was 17 when her family emigrated to the United States in 1980. She became a naturalized citizen in 1987 as Catherine Alicia Young and graduated from Rutgers University in 1988.[4] She completed her autobiography, Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood, published in 1989.

Young is a contributing editor at Reason. Since 2014, she has regularly contributed to Time magazine.[5]

Feminism

Views

In her second book, Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality, published in 1999, Young criticized both

traditionalism from what she described as a "pro-equality point of view",[6] a philosophy which she says may be called "feminism or something else".[7] Young has defended the social media campaign Women Against Feminism.[8]

Describing the

Gamergate controversy in relation to feminism, Young has stated that she believes that Gamergate is a backlash against feminism but one that is "against a particular kind of feminism, one that has a tendency to look obsessively for offences, read ideology into everything, and demonize male sexuality under the pretext of stamping out 'the objectification of women'."[9]

In 2015, Young wrote an article in The Daily Beast in which she interviewed the student whom anti-rape activist Emma Sulkowicz accused of rape.[10] In a response, Sulkowicz described Young as an "anti-feminist", saying that Young published Facebook conversations between her and her alleged rapist to shame her.[11][12][13] Heather Wilhelm wrote in RealClearPolitics that Young's article about Sulkowicz "sets aside the hype and soberly assesses the facts."[14] Citing Young's article, Katie Zavadski described her in New York magazine as a "contrarian feminist".[15]

Young supports legally recognizing same-sex marriages.[16] She describes her political views as "libertarian/conservative".[2]

Reception

In his book

equity feminist",[17]: 342  and further describes her as an "iconoclastic columnist" who has argued against rape-related "dogma".[17]: 360  She has also written stories critical of campus anti-rape activism.[11][18] Commentary magazine stated that Young re-investigates "atrocious coverage of campus sexual assault myths" in the "hopes of setting the record straight and minimizing some of the incredible damage the accusations have done".[19]

Bibliography

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-56858-419-5
    .
  2. ^ a b Young, Cathy. "Welcome to the website of writer and journalist Cathy Young". Archived from the original on June 11, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2009.
  3. ^ Young, Cathy (3 October 2017). "Is Communism Worse Than Nazism?" Forward. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  4. ^ Riley, Sam G. (1995). Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 363.
  5. ^ "Cathy Young". Time. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  6. ISBN 0-684-83442-1
    )), p. 10 (Introduction: The Gender Wars).
  7. ^ Young, Cathy, Ceasefire!, op. cit., p. 11 (Introduction).
  8. ^ Butler, Bethonie (July 30, 2014). "Is this what an anti-feminist movement looks like?". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
  9. ^ Weinman, Jaime (December 8, 2014). "How a gamer fight turned into an all-out culture war". Maclean's. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
  10. ^ Young, Cathy (February 3, 2015). "Columbia Student: I Didn't Rape Her". The Daily Beast. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
  11. ^ a b Kaplan, Sarah (February 4, 2015). "In Columbia University rape case, accuser and accused are now fighting it out in public". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
  12. ^ Zeilinger, Julie (February 3, 2015). "The Treatment of Emma Sulkowicz Proves We Still Have No Idea How to Talk About Rape". Mic.com. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
  13. ^ Young, Cathy (February 3, 2015). "Columbia Student: I Didn't Rape Her". The Daily Beast. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
  14. Real Clear Politics
    . Retrieved February 18, 2015.
  15. New York
    . Retrieved February 18, 2015.
  16. Real Clear Politics
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  17. ^ a b Pinker, Steven (2003). The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Penguin.
  18. ^ McDonough, Katie (February 3, 2015). "The 'perfect victim' myth: How attempts to discredit rape survivors stand in the way of real change". Salon. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
  19. ^ Mandel, Seth (February 3, 2015). "Kirsten Gillibrand's Cruel Assault on Justice". Commentary. Archived from the original on February 18, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2015.

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