Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph: Manfully argued, my pet. But let us cast a practiced eye at the politics of orgasm. Freud thought that truly mature women always shift their focus from the clitoris to the vagina, so women who needed clitoral stimulation were made to feel like retards or perverts. The feminists just reversed that. It was a much-loved way of downgrading penis-vagina sex and upgrading masturbation. Soon provagina women had to take to the hills like guerrillas. Clitoral enforcers like Shere Hite were sent out to mop up any remaining opposition: the poor deluded women who said they had vaginal...
...feminists, then? These days, they are often people talking about an academic theory that has little to do with most women's lives. Feminist theorizing provides a protective shield of terminology behind which feminists can hide from the ugly world of name-calling chauvinists. Moreover, its academic isolation offers a convenient way for campus feminists to enjoy their feminism for two hours a day and shelve it on the way to the party Friday night...
Academics aside, people who call themselves "feminist" include the anti-pornography activists--who come off as being anti-sex, anti-men and anti-First Amendment--and the burnt-out institutions of what used to be the "women's movement...
Abandoning "feminism" makes it too easy to abandon what the word stands for. If we grow afraid to stand up for women's rights for fear of being branded "feminist," we endanger those rights themselves. In 1986, a referendum will be held in Massachusetts to outlaw abortions if the Roe v. Wade decision falls, and to cut government funding for abortions for poor women. The revolution is not over--if it was a revolution...
...bring feminism back to reality. Feminism means equal rights and responsibilities for women and men. With that definition, every man and woman at Harvard should be able to call himself or herself a feminist. On March 9, the March for Women's Lives will take place in Washington, D.C., to affirm the rights of all women to control their own bodies and their own lives. Anyone who believes in these basic freedoms should join the march. Feminism should not be left to the theorists and the caricaturists. It belongs in the lives of women...