Wendy McElroy
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Wendy McElroy (born 1951) is a Canadian individualist anarchist and individualist feminist.
Political viewsAmong feminists, she distinguishes herself as being sex-positive: defending the availability of pornography and condemning anti-pornography feminism campaigns.[1] She has also voiced criticism of sexual harassment policies, particularly the zero-tolerance policies common to grade schools, which she considers to be "far too broad and vague" and lacking the sound research necessary to guide responsible policy-making decisions.[2] In explaining her position in regard to capitalism, she says she chooses to engage in laissez-faire free-market capitalism but also recognizes that the free market permits other kinds of systems as well. She says what she wants for society is "not necessarily a capitalistic arrangement but a free market system in which everyone can make the peaceful choices they wish with their own bodies and labor." Therefore, she doesn't call herself a capitalist but someone for a "free market."[3] McElroy wrote Queen Silver: The Godless Girl about her friend Queen Selections Silver. Silver was a left-wing anarchist, but despite vigorous political difference, the two remained close. McElroy has a regular column on ifeminists.com,[4] is a member of the Liberty and Power group weblog at the History News Network, and is a frequent contributor to Lewrockwell.com. She credits Murray Rothbard's book "Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles" as being "solely responsible for turning [her] from the advocacy of limited government to a lifetime of work within the individualist-anarchist tradition."[5] Books
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