The Monadology of Man

By Lyra Sieradzka

Many attempts at qualifying gendered hierarchies do not treat them as elements of history, but things outside of it.

Efforts to reclaim a progressive masculinity or defend an embattled femininity both make the same mistake: one where they seek to critique the essence of gender, not its evidence in social practice.

Writing in response to E. Day and Mara Luise Guenzel, Lyra Sieradzka critiques the logic of both authors and argues that the real movement is not masculine or feminine, but advances the immediate abolition of gender entirely.