Word: antifeminists
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...Lengsfeld, a former East German dissident and single mother, shrugs off the attacks. "It's ridiculous to suggest that I'm being sexist or antifeminist," she says. "I'm a woman and I'm proud of that. I just wanted an eye-catching campaign poster to draw attention to serious election issues, like climate change. The posters are meant to be funny and ironic...
...need to be saved all the time, that she were less clumsy or prone to fainting. But in these days of supergirls, when our daughters seem to be confident and competent in ways I couldn't have fathomed at 14, I'm not so worried about some embedded antifeminist message. I watched way more TV growing up than my kids do and read more junk and seem to have survived. Instead I'm grateful for any book that has girls so captivated that it will keep us talking late into the night, about relationships and their consequences, about roles...
...answer. So press on with complete confidence that marriage is The Right Thing To Do. Too many women find themselves "becoming a wife before you actually have a husband," she adds. And don't let your friends tell you the hot pursuit of a ring is antifeminist; actually, it's all about empowerment. And, somehow, the environment. "Basically, if you aren't selfish enough to get married for yourself, get married for poor, feeble Mother Earth," she writes. "She's begging...
...vice versa? If we teach children as young as four that cosmetic surgery is a panacea for all self-esteem problems, our collective national body image can only become still more distorted. Notice further that fathers and sons are absent from this tale, a fact that sends the decidedly antifeminist message that it is only the female body that must be perfected...
Small wonder, then, that the students have started to mimic the left's rhetoric of victimhood. A prominent student conservative--Charles Mitchell of Pennsylvania's Bucknell University--urged conference attendees to return to their campuses and create "safe zones" for conservatives, who are, he said, "constantly under attack." Antifeminist Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys, darkly warned that Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues--a collection of sketches about women's sexual experiences that was performed on more than 600 campuses last year--has inspired "an army" of campus feminists whom she called "very elitist." Sommers told...