Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FEMINISM IS NOT dead yet. The March for Women's Lives proved at least that much. I, for one, was happy to see this return to arms in support of an original pillar of the feminist agenda. But the positive press this event received has obscured the more distasteful tinge of much contemporary feminist activism--the transformation of liberal feminism into feminist fascism...
...first implication explicitly underlies the feminist anti-pornography laws passed in Minneapolis and Indianapolis, which allow a woman to file a claim of discrimination against material that depicted women "as sexual objects for domination, conquest, violation, exploitation, possession or use, through postures or positions of submission or servility or display." The aim was to eliminate the objectification of women--the portrayal of the female sex as a tool for attaining sexual satisfaction. Viewing women this way, the logic goes, encouraged the act of rape...
...usual, the legal issues obscured the real ones. The feminist fascists used the rape argument as a Trojan Horse. Their ultimate purpose was to recast the relations of men and women...
...USING THE term feminist fascists, I do not mean to imply that brown-shirted blondes are goose-stepping down Pennsylvania Avenue with swastikas and Hitler lockets. But there is a worrisome similarity between the aims and tactics of these extreme feminists and political fascists...
...feminist fascists, first of all, want gender purity. Women must shake off the ideologies and mores of masculine kultur. Secondly, they yearn for "A Place in the Sun," a separate but equal set of values for women. Women must be respected not just as equal persons, but simply and existentially for being women. Women must be represented and treated positively. Here, pornography is an obvious target. Ideally, men should look past a women's potential for a night of funzies, to the real qualities that make a woman a woman...