The Many Fallacies of Antifeminism - Elizabeth Grace Matthew - The Dispatch 19%

By Elizabeth Grace Matthew0% https:49% thedispatch.com31% #46% schema44% person45% d12501d79404a564bb8f0d4d30e9eb880%

7/11/2026, 6:45:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Right Leaning Bias and Straw Man, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 17% saturation with 52 hits. Analysis detected 119 faulty-reasoning hits from 305 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 34.6% and a BS Rank of 19% (11,560 of 14,149 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 81.70% of the article peer group.

Elizabeth Grace Matthew 
The Many Fallacies of Antifeminism 
Feminism has its problems. 
But so does its knee-jerk opposite. 
Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Unsplash). 
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Why is J.K. 
Rowling, best-selling author of the Harry Potter series, a pariah among mainstream American feminists? 
All she has done is affirm women’s rights, after all—in this case, the right to privacy from males in intimate spaces, whether or not said males identify as female. 
The Rowling saga makes sense only if you recognize that mainstream, liberal feminism is a house made of toothpicks. 
Elizabeth Grace Matthew writes about books, education, and culture, including on Substack. 
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Begging the Question
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Appeal to Nature
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Personal Incredulity
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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305 words analyzed.

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Politically Right Leaning Bias-15.9 pts
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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

Analysis

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