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Concerned, I called a convenient authority on feminism??my mother, who as a young woman interned for Bella Abzug, and whom I suspect of having once been a radical. (I was once convinced that she was an ex-member of the Weather Underground very effectively disguised as a suburban matron, due to her liberal leanings and a suspicious lack of anecdotes about her past.) Anyway, she confirmed that replacing “girl” with “woman” had once been a central concern of feminists...
...their sex lives and enjoy the act on their own terms. In this way, the stars of the show are sexually empowered. But as the characters free themselves of old sexual restrictions, they are creating new ones in the process. What has been deemed the “post-feminism?? displayed in “Sex and the City” undermines the value of sexual intimacy and leaves many women with busy—but essentially emotionless—sex lives...
...Farce of Feminism?? (Editorial, Oct. 16, 2001), I do not doubt the anti-feminist passion that Rebecca E. Rubins ’05 used to fuel her Editor’s Notebook, but I have the distinct feeling she will be singing a different tune when she enters the working world...
...Farce of Feminism?? (Editorial, Oct. 16, 2001), I have no objection to people opposing feminism, or at least discussing it. Unfortunately, Rebecca E. Rubins’ Editor’s Notebook was riddled with factual errors and logical fallacies, which make her piece simple polemic rather than meaningful argument...
...women-only” groups, but might not support the equalitarian ideal that women and men have to be equally good at math and science. By conflating the two positions (and really, there are many shades between the basic poles), Rubins succeeds in making “feminism?? look self-contradictory and stupid. Which it would be, if feminism were some centrally administered collective—but it isn’t. She’s arguing with several different people at once, and ascribing their arguments to one another. No wonder feminism looks bad in her analysis...