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| birth_place = Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)| death_date =| death_place =| other_names = Catherine Alicia YoungRutgers University–New Brunswick>Rutgers University, New Brunswick (BA)| occupation = Journalist}}Catherine Alicia Young (born Yekaterina Jung;BOOK, Huberman, Jack,books.google.com/books?id=IJc4DgAAQBAJ&pg=PT408, The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound, 2008, PublicAffairs, 978-1-56858-419-5, 408, en, ; born February 10, 1963) is a Russian-American journalist. Young is primarily known for her writing about feminism and other cultural issues, as well as about Russia and the former Soviet Union. She is the author of two books, a frequent contributor to the 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”.

Life and career

Born in Moscow to a Jewish family,Young, Cathy (3 October 2017). “Is Communism Worse Than Nazism?” Forward. Retrieved 16 October 2019. 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.BOOK, Riley, Sam G., 1995, Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists, Greenwood Publishing Group, 363, 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.MAGAZINE, Cathy Young, Time,time.com/author/cathy-young/, 18 February 2014,

Feminism

Views

In her second book, Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality, published in 1999, Young criticized both feminism and traditionalism from what she described as a “pro-equality point of view”,Young, Cathy (1999), Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality (New York: Free Press, ({{ISBN|0-684-83442-1}})), p. 10 (Introduction: The Gender Wars). a philosophy which she says may be called “feminism or something else”.Young, Cathy, Ceasefire!, op. cit., p. 11 (Introduction). Young has defended the social media campaign Women Against Feminism.NEWS, Butler, Bethonie, Is this what an anti-feminist movement looks like?,www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/07/30/is-this-what-an-anti-feminist-movement-looks-like/, 17 February 2015, The Washington Post, 30 July 2014, 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’.“NEWS, Weinman, Jaime, How a gamer fight turned into an all-out culture war,www.macleans.ca/society/technology/gamergate-how-a-gamer-fight-turned-into-an-all-out-culture-war/, 17 February 2015, Maclean’s, 8 December 2014, 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.WEB, Cathy, Young,www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/03/columbia-student-i-didn-t-rape-her.html, Columbia Student: I Didn’t Rape Her, The Daily Beast, February 3, 2015, 19 January 2016, 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.NEWS, Kaplan, Sarah, In Columbia University rape case, accuser and accused are now fighting it out in public,www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/04/in-columbia-university-rape-case-accuser-and-accused-are-now-fighting-it-out-in-public/, 17 February 2015, The Washington Post, 4 February 2015, NEWS, Zeilinger, Julie, The Treatment of Emma Sulkowicz Proves We Still Have No Idea How to Talk About Rape,mic.com/articles/109446/the-treatment-of-emma-sulkowicz-proves-we-still-have-no-idea-how-to-talk-about-rape, 17 February 2015, Mic.com, 3 February 2015, NEWS, Young, Cathy, Columbia Student: I Didn’t Rape Her,www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/03/columbia-student-i-didn-t-rape-her.html, The Daily Beast, 3 February 2015, 26 September 2015, Heather Wilhelm wrote in RealClearPolitics that Young’s article about Sulkowicz “sets aside the hype and soberly assesses the facts.“NEWS, Heather, Wilhelm, 5 February 2015, The Rise of the Weak-Kneed Feminists, Real Clear Politics,www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/05/the_rise_of_the_weak-kneed_feminists.html, 18 February 2015, Citing Young’s article, Katie Zavadski described her in New York magazine as a “contrarian feminist”.MAGAZINE, Katie, Zavadski, 3 February 2015, Alleged Rapist in Columbia Case Offers His Version of Events, Produces Message Transcripts, New York Magazine, New York,nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/alleged-rapist-in-columbia-case-speaks-out-again.html, 18 February 2015, Young supports legally recognizing same-sex marriages.WEB, Cathy, Young,www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/22/freedom_to_marry_freedom_to_dissent_why_we_must_have_both_122376.html, Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent: Why We Must Have Both, April 22, 2014, Real Clear Politics, She describes her political views as “libertarian/conservative”.WEB, Young, Cathy, Welcome to the website of writer and journalist Cathy Young,www.cathyyoung.net/, live,www.cathyyoung.net/," title="web.archive.org/web/20090611073525www.cathyyoung.net/,">web.archive.org/web/20090611073525www.cathyyoung.net/, June 11, 2009, July 12, 2009,

Reception

In his book The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker identifies Young as an “equity feminist”,BOOK, Pinker, Steven, 2003, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Penguin, {{rp|342}} and further describes her as an “iconoclastic columnist” who has argued against rape-related “dogma”.{{rp|360}} She has also written stories critical of campus anti-rape activism.NEWS, McDonough, Katie, The ‘perfect victim’ myth: How attempts to discredit rape survivors stand in the way of real change,www.salon.com/2015/02/03/the_perfect_victim_myth_how_attempts_to_discredit_individual_survivors_stand_in_the_way_of_real_change/, 16 February 2015, Salon, 3 February 2015, 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”.NEWS, Mandel, Seth, 3 February 2015, Kirsten Gillibrand’s Cruel Assault on Justice, Commentary,www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/02/03/kirsten-gillibrands-cruel-assault-justice/, 18 February 2015, 18 February 2015,web.archive.org/web/20150218211653/https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/02/03/kirsten-gillibrands-cruel-assault-justice/, dead,

Bibliography

• Growing Up In Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood (1989) ({{ISBN|0709041306}})
• Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality (1999) ({{ISBN|0684834421}})

References

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External links

• Young’s collected writings at Reason magazine website
• Young’s website
• {{IMDb name|id=2830336|name=Cathy Young}}

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