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...litmus test for a nomination to the Supreme Court. So, You know, my opinions come out unpredictable in many ways. I'm a strongly committed Jew and yet I support the right of holocaust deniers and of Nazis to spew their poison. I think of myself as a feminist and yet I think that women who make accusations of rape cannot hide behind anonymity, must have their names disclosed. You know, my views don't fit neatly into any pigeonhole...
...Mostly what I'm doing is going to classes myself and preparing to do the historical research and consulting with feminist studies scholars...
...Media goes through the sins of omission and commission, both by not reporting and by supporting the cliches about feminism. It presents the women involved in feminist causes as white upper-middle-class women with too much leisure on their hands, but fails to cover the grassroots movement, which is multi-cultural...
...mean, I don't think any of this is conscious. I've noticed the tendency to refer to Naomi Wolf, me and Gloria Steinem as the quote-unquote yuppie feminists. It's this phenomenon where two or three women are picked out as feminist spokespeople, are elevated and then trashed in hopes that 'well, we've attacked them, gotten them out of the way, so feminism itself can be discredited...
...think it's a wonderful time. You're embarking into the real world and a period in which feminist questions are back on the table and the challenge is to keep them there...