Word: feminist
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...made me a feminist before my time...any woman who chose a profession became a feminist before Betty Friedan ever thought about the subject," she concludes...
Still, over the years, there is no question that my most impassioned adversaries have been the members of organized feminist groups. The vitriol of their rhetoric has gone unmatched. Of course, so has their hypocrisy. Apparently, it is easy to blame the patriarchy for all of your woes, and to silence your opponents with accusations of misogyny, but it is more difficult to actually deny oneself the pleasures of cavorting with said patriarchy's handsome sons. I will never forget the fateful evening when I encountered the leader of one prominent women's organization emerging from the anteroom...
What is that culture? It is a culture that breeds hypocrisy. It is a culture that reduces politics to squabbles between ethnic and gendered interests and forces an equation between true commitment and naivete. Is the feminist really at fault--as I have implied--for patronizing an organization that denies equal status to women? Should not political commitment involve sacrifice in one's daily life? But where is the appropriate sacrifice too large? Perhaps at Harvard, where I have already lamented there are few neutral public spaces where students can go? Our political life is defined by the comically inconsistent...
...which broke scant months after The View's launch, that confirmed the show's moment had arrived. Suddenly the country was talking about oral sex, semen and adultery in homes and offices. This talk led to hand wringing about "the coarsening of the culture," but it also illustrated the feminist dictum that the personal is political. It demonstrated--just as working women's juggling of job and home life does--that sloppy private matters can't be neatly divorced from public life. From 24-hour news to Politically Incorrect, groups of people arguing took root as the dominant mode...
...Harvard's first expert on gender and sexuality in the legal system, Halley will teach courses on family law, sexual harassment and feminist legal theory when she joins the faculty in the fall...