Word: feminist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hillary: For and Against I am a die-hard feminist. If I read or hear one more story about why some women did not vote for Hillary Clinton, I will scream [June 16]. A reason largely ignored by the media is that we did not think she was the best candidate. It had nothing to do with ovaries or high heels. Lauren F. Cardillo, Alexandria, Virginia...
...construction of a Women’s Center. Comments by a former Harvard president about “women in science” and the often flawed U.S. presidential candidacy of a former first lady bookended our college career, but despite some public relations flare-ups and missteps, the feminist trump card came out on top. But my response...
Media outlets and peers expected me to say something insightful at University President Drew G. Faust’s inauguration, asking for my opinion as only the eighth woman to lead The Crimson in 134 years. I shrugged, because the feminist cause was not really speaking to me at the time. My biggest “woman’s issue” at Harvard was the recent removal of the free tampon dispensers from the Lamont Library bathroom...
...fail you. But from that disappointment comes the great satisfaction of discovering happiness in spite of shortcomings and pride in individual actions. I still believe in the Catholic faith and the principles of social justice even if I disagreed with their proponents at Harvard; I am not waving the feminist banner or joining any newspaper masthead because I am uncomfortable with organizational flaws, but I still want to support individuals working for Hillary or the Gray Lady...
...strongest cause of intolerance comes from the multiculturalism that the feminists have taken on board. Multiculturalism is a strange combination of relativism and moralism. All cultures are equal and none can be privileged—that’s the relativism. But because some people claim privilege and use it to oppress others, they must be excluded from power and status—there’s the moralism. Multiculturalism gave feminists the ability to borrow the moral authority of Blacks, who had truly been oppressed. They have used it—quite without embarrassment—to exclude conservatives...