Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women must reject traditional female roles, Bowdren's characterization is not much better. After touting her own knowledge and stating that "the word 'feminist' carries a lot more baggage," Bowdren does a laughable job of reducing feminism to what she thinks "most feminist" believe: "men and women are equal because deep down men and women are the same...
...feminists, and more. There's a place for Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Daly, Katie Roiphe and Madonna in feminist discourse--all of whom, I would argue, can be called "feminists" in one way or another. For your information, Ms. Bowdren, some feminists do not believe that men and women are equal--some feminists believe that women are essentially different from men and good in their own, uniquely female ways. If one more conservative group tries to tell me what a "feminist" is by categorizing and generalizing, I am going to sic Camille Paglia on them. There is no one "evil feminist...
...Yale Whale' (officially Ingalls Rink) has been the Crimson's hell away from home for much of the past decade. Harvard's win total at Yale since 1982 is equal to the number of AFC Super Bowl champions since...
...suggest this, because as a conservative woman and someone who knows something about the various strains of feminism, I don't think there's any way to reclaim the term "feminist." Feminists (who without a doubt form a very disparate group) explain their cause as the fight for "equal rights." But the word "feminist" carries a lot more baggage than that...
...most feminists, men and women are equal because deep down men and women are the same. Not sort of the same, not basically the same, but the same. Scrape away the social conditioning, smash through the corporate glass ceiling, get rid of all the historical biases, and what you have are two creatures who are equally capable of doing whatever the other can do. For these feminists, sexual equality means a recognition of the androgynous ideal and a denial of gender stereotypes, or what Boyle calls, the "traditional' feminine roles." These stereotypes, the argument goes, have been artificially maintained specifically...