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Line 1: − {{cquote|<big>'''Feminism''' is the radical idea that women are people.</big>|||<big>Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichler</big><ref>http://www.memorable-quotes.com/cheris+kramarae+++paula+treichler,a1818.html is one of many sources.</ref>}}+ − {{wp}}+ − {{cp}}+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + − + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − In the [[United States]] and [[United Kingdom | Great Britain]], feminism began with the <font color="#green" >simple</font> <ref> "The truth is seldom pure and '''NEVER''' simple." Oscar Wilde </ref> demand that women be allowed equal political footing with men. As with all anti-discrimination movements, even when the formal apparatus of discrimination was overturned, ingrained prejudices and biased institutions still prevailed. Even today, women have still not reached the same levels of success in pay and position that men have held for centuries.+ − Taken in broad (so to speak) terms, the history of feminism is divided into three waves:+ − + − '''Second Wave''': Women's Lib. Following a large number of women working in factories in [[World War II]], the idea that women could actually do jobs as well as men started to take root, exploding in the 1960's in any number of ways. Advances in [[birth control]] brought a coincident sexual revolution which turned a lot of things on their head and generally pissed off people who had a vested interest in the ''status quo''.+ − '''Third Wave''': This is where we are today. [[Pro-choice | Reproductive rights]] are a big issue, as are international women's concerns. Where the first two waves tended to concentrate on North America and Europe, now things like [[Circumcision | female genital mutilation]], [[Sharia | Sharia law]], anti-female practices in Asia, experiences of women in war, etc. are all part of the mix. Post-modern concepts come into play as well, with women looking at the use of language and media as tools of oppression which must be overthrown. Again, those who have a vested interest aren't terribly supportive of any of this.+ − ==Successes==+ − Here are a few highlights {{more}} of successes in the movement (please add refs if possible): − ===General===+ − − *Workplace: Equal pay for equal work is now accepted as proper (if not always put into practice); greater diversification of opportunity. − *Privacy: CT vs. Griswold allowed married couples to use birth control; [[Roe v. Wade]] allowed women to make their own decisions about childbearing. − *Education: Where once technical higher education was available only to men, women now outnumber men in many areas of study. − *Social: Women are now able to socialise (pubs, clubs, bars etc) unaccompanied by men, without being stigmatised as "loose women". − *Gender roles: Women wearing pants, women driving heavy machinery, women flying jet fighters, women (the horror!) supervising men, etc. − ===Suffrage===+ − The battle to gain the right to vote has raged since the early 19th century.<ref>Data ripped from [[Wikipedia:Women's suffrage]]</ref> − − *In the years before the First World War, Finland (1906), Norway (1913) and Denmark also gave women the vote. − *1917 - [[Canada]] granted the right, except in Quebec, where it was postponed until 1940. − *1917 - Soviet [[Russia]] also allowed women to "vote" for the winner of their "elections". − *1920 - Women achieved the vote in the U.S. with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. − *1926 - [[Turkey]] − *1928 - [[The United Kingdom]] granted full voting rights to women. − *1944 - [[France]] extended the franchise, finally. − *1971 - Switzerland extends franchise on a federal level. Cantonal extension is slower: the last extension, in Appenzell Innerhoden, took place in 1990. − *1984 - Liechtenstein joined the rest of the free world in sisterhood. − ===Suffrage in the United States===+ − *1890 - Wyoming admitted to the union with women's suffrage - the first state! − − *1896 - Utah & Idaho both passed laws enfranchising women. − *1910 - Washington State established women's suffrage. − *1913 - Illinois gave women the vote in most elections. − *August 18, 1920 - The Tennessee legislature became the 38th state to ratify the 19th Amendment. The Amendment was passed by a single vote, thanks to a letter Senator Burns received from his mother minutes before the vote was taken. Mrs. Burns has become one of those extremely important figures in American history that are often forgotten. − ===Major political office===+ − − *Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. − *Golda Meir, after serving as the Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister, became Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, until her resignation in 1974. − *[[Margaret Thatcher]] (oh well) served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, and leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 until 1990. − *Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of [[Iceland]] was the world's first elected female president (1980 to 1996), as opposed to an elected Prime Minister. − *Benazir Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having twice been Prime Minister of Pakistan, from 1988–1990 and 1993–1996. − *[[Hillary Clinton]] ran a prominent campaign for President of the U.S. in 2008. The U.S. Senate, where she fomerly served before becoming Secretary of State, is still over 80% male, however. − *Nancy Pelosi became the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States following the 2006 elections. − *In New Zealand, at one point, the Prime Minister, Governor General, Speaker of the House, and High Court Chief Justice were all female; the Governor General and Speaker have since rotated to males, and Aunty Helen has been voted out of office. − *Mary Robinson was elected the President of the Republic of Ireland (more of a figurehead than a leader) in 1990. She was succeeded in 1997 by Mary McAleese. − {{more}}+ − ===Some lists at another website===+ − − *{{wpa|List of_elected_or_appointed_female_heads_of_government|female heads of government}} − ==Ideology==+ − While feminism is not one single ideology, there have been various movements with more-or-less well defined outlooks. − ==Criticisms==+ − Here are a few dubious backlashes and losses the movement has suffered: − + − *Don Imus and his racist, sexist namecalling. − *[[Sarah Palin]]. − ===Reactionary movement===+ − Because feminism demands that society re-evaluate how it views women and what roles women must and can take on, and because the core of feminism is the ultimate self-empowerment and self-realization of women (in no small cost to traditional male power and supremacy <ref>and having to do the damned laundry and dishes, and diaper changing — them's women's work!</ref>), many [[conservative]]s view feminism as an attempt to set up a castrating matriarchy, where Dianic [[Wicca]] reigns supreme and all women are lesbians. [[Rush Limbaugh]] even invented his own pet derogatory term, "feminazis".<ref>At the core, it is totally insulting to compare women who are aggressive about equality with people who wanted to destroy an entire population. Yet, surprisingly, no one called or calls him on this obscene comparison.</ref> This is not limited to male reactionaries; even [[Ann Coulter|some female conservatives]] have stated a wish to abolish female suffrage. Conservatives often use a straw man depection of feminists' support for [[abortion]] rights as an excuse not to take any of their other opinions seriously, turning complex arguments into one-liners like "They don't want to take responsibility for thier (sexual) actions" or "They want their cake and want to eat it too".<ref>And so what if we do, men have the remote and the [[television|TV]] too!</ref> At their most petty level, conservative critics of feminists resort to weak accusations of wearing pants instead of dresses in order to look like men, and "shirking traditional gender activities, like baking".<ref>[[cp:feminism|Conservapedia on feminism]].</ref> − ===Some unlinked crazies===+ − McGill University misandry researchers Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young call modern gender-focused feminism "fascist". They say that gender-feminism uses recycled Marxism, Romanticism and Classism to create a man-hating worldview. − However, it must be remembered that in all political theories, there are competing sub-theories. "Gender feminism" and "Marxist feminism" are not the end-all and be-all of feminism. If anything, "liberal feminism" is the most accepted form of feminism outside of academia. Liberal feminism (also known as classical feminism) instead seeks to create gender equality in institutions by removing discrimination and promoting equality. (Even within academia, Marxist feminism is probably not the most common. Academic feminism usually revolves around the study of female viewpoints within a classical discipline, without using Marxist critiques beyond that used by the discipline already.)+ − ===Another asinine myth spun sideways===+ − For some reason, there are plenty of women who hate feminism. Some of these are due to feminism's attempts to free women from their traditional roles as servants to their husbands. Examples of these kind of critics include [[Phyllis Schlafly]] and [[Ann Coulter]]. − There are also many women who call themselves feminists, who have been highly critical of the ideologies underpinning modern and post-modern feminism (interesting detail required here, otherwise this sentence has no meaning). These include Suzanne Hoff-Sommers, Wendly McElroy, Camille Paglia, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Kate Fillion and others. In addition, criticism that feminists have systematically subverted scholarship for political indoctrination is shown in ''Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales From the Strange World of Women's Studies'' by Patia and Koerge, two women from within the movement. However, even in these academic cases, it is a simple case of women who are upset with a particular sub-theory of feminism, rather than the notion of feminism as a whole.+ − ==Feminism and the 2008 US Vice Presidential race==+ − For the first time in a long time, an honest feminist ran for Vice President of the United States. No, not [[Sarah Palin|her]]; ironically, perhaps, it was the [[man]] running for the position, Joe Biden. Biden has already spent 20 years fighting for women's rights. He fought to make marital rape as heinous a crime as non-spousal rape; when he found out that his home state treated date rape as a lesser offense, he fought that; and he worked his ass off on the Violence Against Women Act, specifically the section on Civil Rights for women.<ref>[http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=685a4524-9702-49c0-b062-7d9ecd21a854&p=1 A fuller story on Biden's record]</ref>+ − Biden's victory makes him arguably the most politically-powerful women's rights advocate in American history.+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + − + − + − + − + − + + + + + + + + + − + − <references/>+ + + + − + − + − [[Category:Women's rights]] − [[Category:Politics]]
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'''Feminism''' originally was an expression used by [[suffragettes]] - who were predominantly [[pro-life]]<ref>[http://www.godlessprolifers.org/library/wallace4.html ''Susan B. Anthony opposed abortion'']</ref><ref>''"There is no question that she deplored the practice of abortion, as did every one of her colleagues in the suffrage movement."'' [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/opinion/13schiff.html?_r=1&oref=slogin ''Desperately Seeking Susan''] [[New York Times]] (13 October 2006)</ref><ref>[http://www.feministsforlife.org/history/foremoth.htm ''Voices of our Feminist Foremothers''] Feminists for Life</ref> - to obtain the right for women to vote in the early 1900s in the [[United States]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. By the 1970s, however, [[liberals]] had changed the meaning to represent people who favored [[abortion]] and identical roles or quotas for women in the military and in society as a whole.
Specifically, a modern feminist tends to:
* believe that there are no meaningful differences between men and women (The most significant belief underlying contemporary feminism is that there are no [[sex differences]]; therefore advocacy for [[equal rights]] must be extended to advocacy for [[equal results]] or outcomes.)
* oppose [[chivalry]] and even feign insult at harmless displays of it (see [[battle between the sexes]])
* view traditional [[marriage]] as unacceptably patriarchal
* detest women who are happy in traditional roles, such as housewives,<ref> "Being a [[housewife]] is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of [[radical feminism]] is to change that." - Vivian Gornick, University of Illinois, "The Daily Illini," April 25, 1981. [http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com/artman/publish/LAF_Theme_Articles_13/You_Don_t_Know_Feminism_744100744.shtml "You Don't Know Feminism"] </ref> and especially dislike those who defend such roles
* shirk traditional gender activities, like baking<ref>"But sometime between the Ides of March and Canada Day, I remembered that I'd given up baking cookies as a political act in 1975. ... No self-respecting feminist could be found in the company of cookie dough." [http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/arts/story.html?k=60432&id=3b3c71f6-0d7d-4e1a-b8fb-cf8d5b1af478]</ref>
* support [[affirmative action]] for women
* prefer that women wear pants rather than dresses, presumably because men do<ref>"[T]he wearing of pantsuits is often a useful feminism signifier, depending on the culture of the law firm." [http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu/?p=2640]</ref><ref>"I was part of a growing tribe of pesky women called feminists by friends and enemies alike. We women stormed out the door in our imitation men's suits ...." [http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/arts/story.html?k=60432&id=3b3c71f6-0d7d-4e1a-b8fb-cf8d5b1af478]</ref>
* seek [[women in combat]] in the military just like men, and coed submarines
* refuse to take her husband's last name when marrying<ref>"(Almost half the married women in the Harvard-Radcliffe class of 1990 kept or hyphenated their names.) If you read the New York Times wedding pages, and shut up, you do, the phrase 'the bride, who is keeping her name' seems like the norm, unless his name is Rockefeller. http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/feature/2003/10/16/names/index.html]</ref>
* distort historical focus onto female figures, often overshadowing important events (Eg: Henry VIII's wives take precedence in common knowledge to his actual reign.)
* object to being addressed as "ma'am," or feminine nicknames such as "sweetheart" or "honey";<ref>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-boxer-maamjun19,0,5804401.story</ref> object to other female-only names, such as "temptress"
==History==
==History==
Feminism has a long history, dating from the movements for women's rights to vote, through the sexual revolutions of the twenties and sixties, to the workplace equality efforts still underway. While it seems as if "you've come a long way, baby", sadly women are still second-class citizens even in some developed nations.
Roots of the movement in the United States and the United Kingdom include the [[suffrage|Women's Suffrage]] movement of the early 1900's and the [[Women's Liberation]] (or "Second Wave Feminist") movement of the 1960's and 1970's.
The [[Equal Rights Amendment]], which proponents claimed would address the inadequacies of the [[Fourteenth Amendment]] concerning women and citizenship, was proposed in the US in 1923. The amendment passed Congress in 1972 but was ultimately defeated, falling just three states short of the required [[three-quarters majority]] on June 30, 1982. Some conservatives, particularly [[Phyllis Schlafly]], felt that its passage would entail adverse consequences, including making girls subject to the [[military draft]], requiring taxpayer-funded [[abortion]] the end of [[single-sex schools]] and classes, requiring the issuance of [[homosexual marriage]] licenses, and the revocation of laws that protect women in dangerous jobs, such as factory or mining work. Indeed, in states that passed their own state versions of ERA, several of these results were subsequently ordered by courts.<ref>For example, the [[Hawaii]] and [[Massachusetts]] Supreme Courts ordered the issuance of homosexual marriage licenses based in part on their on their state ERAs, and the [[New Mexico]] Supreme Court ordered taxpayer-funded [[abortion]] based on its state ERA.</ref>
The feminist movement in the West evolved in the 1980s with the rise of so-called [[Post-Feminism]] (also called "[[Third-Wave]]" feminism), which stresses that women have many rights that go unrecognized, often by women themselves, in everyday life, and in the American legal structure. Most members of the feminist movement support reproductive rights currently guaranteed by American law, including the legal right to [[abortion]]. This stance is opposed by many conservatives, leading political commentator [[Rush Limbaugh]] to coin the term "Femi-nazis" to refer to extreme feminist activists.
During the administration of [[Bill Clinton]], feminism made a partial resurgence, although feminist leadership was criticized{{who}} for largely failing to criticize President Clinton's [[sexist]] behavior toward female employees as both Arkansas Governor and U.S. President.<ref>Odone, Christina [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article528875.ece ''Left-wing misogyny is alive and well: The party’s feminist agenda allows Labour men to get away with sexist behaviour''] (2 June 2005) [[The Times]]</ref><ref>Jackson, Candice E. ''"Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine"'' (World Ahead Publishing; 2005) ISBN 0-9746-7013-8</ref>
Dr. [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], a staunch advocate of [[civil rights]] and [[non-violence]] said, "When a mother has to work she does violence to motherhood by depriving her children of her loving guidance and protection." <ref>''Stride Toward Freedom : The Montgomery Story'', Martin Luther King, Jr., Harper and Rowe, New York, 1958, p. 203.</ref>
Larrey Anderson, philosopher, writer and submissions editor for American Thinker, links feminism to Marxism, and concludes, "Feminism by grounding itself in the philosophy of Hegel and Marx, is condemning women to a new servitude: slavery to the state."<ref>Larrey Anderson, ''The Feminine Mistake'', American Thinker], November 29, 2009</ref>
==Quotations==
===[[Robin Morgan]]===
*"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the [[oppressed]] have a right to [[class-hatred]] against the class that is oppressing them."<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/LGB.asp From] "Sisterhood is Powerful"(1970)</ref>
*"I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero-sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary-vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the sh*twork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do."<ref>[http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html From] her introduction to "Sisterhood is Powerful"</ref><ref>http://www.feministcampus.org/network/chat/morgan04232003.asp</ref>
*"We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage."<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_/ai_n9357217 From] "Sisterhood is Powerful"</ref>
*"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire."<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_199903/ai_n8831317 From] "Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape"</ref>
===[[Andrea Dworkin]]===
*"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice."<ref name="LfaWZ">[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/LGB.asp From] her book "Letters from a War Zone"</ref>
*"Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies."<ref name="LfaWZ"/>
*"In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice."<ref>Andrea Dworkin: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4024585,00.html "'They took my body from me and used it'"] (Guardian Unlimited)</ref>
*Q: People think you are very hostile to men. A: "I am."<ref>[http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/WarZoneChaptIID.html "Nervous Interview"], 1978 (Background: "Norman Mailer managed to publish lots of interviews with himself, none of which made much sense, all of which were taken seriously by literati of various stripes. So this is half parody of him and his chosen form and half parody of myself and my chosen movement.")</ref>
*"Men use the night to erase us."<ref name="TNaD">[http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/WarZoneChaptIb.html The Night and Danger]</ref>
*"The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality."<ref name="TNaD"/>
===[[Marilyn French]]===
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*"As long as some men use physical force to subjugate females, all men need not. The knowledge that some men do suffices to threaten all women. He can beat or kill the woman he claims to love; he can rape women ... he can sexually molest his daughters ... THE VAST MAJORITY OF MEN IN THE WORLD DO ONE OR MORE OF THE ABOVE" - ''The War Against Women'', p. 182 (her emphasis)<ref>http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/034538248X/ref=sib_dp_pt#</ref>
*"All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women ... All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey" - ''The War Against Women'', p. 186 <ref>http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/034538248X/ref=sib_dp_pt#</ref>
*"The media treat male assaults on women like rape, beating, and murder of wives and female lovers, or male incest with children, as individual aberrations ... obscuring the fact that all male violence toward women is part of a concerted campaign" - ''The War Against Women'', p. 21 <ref>http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/034538248X/ref=sib_dp_pt#</ref>
====In fiction authored by [[Marilyn French]]====
*My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter" - ''The Women's Room''
*"All men are rapists and that's all they are" - The character Mia in her novel ''The Women's Room'', p. 462<ref>http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0345353617/ref=sib_dp_pt#</ref>
===Other===
*"The nuclear family must be destroyed ... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process" - Linda Gordon
*"Marriage has existed for the benefit of men; and has been a legally sanctioned method of control over women ... We must work to destroy it. The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men ... All of history must be re-written in terms of oppression of women. We must go back to ancient female religions like witchcraft" (from "The Declaration of Feminism" November, 1971)
*"The feminista agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a [[socialist]], anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, [[abortion|kill their children]], practice [[witchcraft]], destroy capitalism, and become [[lesbian]]s" - Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992<ref>http://www.gainesvillehumanists.org/patr.htm </ref>
*"The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket" - Anita Loos
*"Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex" - [[Valerie Solanas]], author of the SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men)
*"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness...can be trained to do most things" - Jilly Cooper
*"Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage" - Sheila Cronin, the leader of the feminist organization NOW
*"The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist" - Ti-Grace Atkinson
*"Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice" - Ti-Grace Atkinson
'''First Wave''': Women's Suffrage. Getting out the vote (which, of course, required getting the vote in the first place), having a voice. The very basic stuff.
*"It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it." - Claudette Colbert, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel
*"Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear" - Susan Brownmiller; Authoress of Against Our Will p.6
*"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression" - Sheila Jeffrys
*"Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated" - Catharine MacKinnon
*"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman" - Catharine MacKinnon
*Property: Equal rights to ownership and inheritance, and women not being ''considered'' property anymore.
*"You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs" - Catharine MacKinnon (Prominent legal feminist scholar; Universities of Michigan & Yale)
*In 1893, [[New Zealand]] became the first major self-governing country in the world to give women the vote.
*"In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent" - Catharine MacKinnon, quoted in ''Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies''
*1893 - Colorado enfranchised women through a referendum.
*"The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men" - Sharon Stone, Actress
*Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka (at that time, Ceylon) was the modern world's first female ''elected'' head of state and served as Prime Minister from 1960-1965, 1970-1977 and 1994-2000.
*"Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive ... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not [[Rambo]]" - Jodie Foster, Actress - as quoted in The New York Times Magazine
*"The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race" - Sally Miller Gearhart, in ''The Future - If There Is One - Is Female''
*{{wpa|List of elected or appointed female heads of state|female heads of state}}
*"And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference" - Susan Griffin, Rape: The All-American Crime
*"If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males" - Mary Daly, former Professor at Boston College, 2001
*[[Rush Limbaugh]] and his nasty namecalling.
*"If anyone is prosecuted for filing a false report, then victims of real attacks will be less likely to report them" - David Angier
*"To use the word [rape] carefully would be to be careful for the sake of the violator, and the survivors don't care a hoot about him. … They [men unjustly accused of rape] have a lot of pain, but it is not a pain that I would necessarily have spared them. I think it ideally initiates a process of self-exploration. 'How do I see women?' 'If I didn't violate her, could I have?' 'Do I have the potential to do to her what they say I did?' Those are good questions." - Catherine Comins, assistant dean of student life at Vassar in 1991 <ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973077-6,00.html</ref>
*"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it" - Barbara Jordan, former congresswoman
*"Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release" - [[Germaine Greer]]
*"Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire, respect, and need women also feel for men. Always man-hating is shadowed by its milder, more diplomatic and doubtful twin, ambivalence" - [[Judith Levine]], Authoress
*"I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not only for the anonymous man who makes sucking noises on the street, not only for the rapist or the judge who acquits him, but for what the Greeks called philo-aphilos, 'hate in love' for the men women share their lives with - husbands, lovers, friends, fathers, brothers, sons, co-workers." - [[Judith Levine]], Authoress of My Enemy, My love
*"There are no boundaries between affectionate sex and slavery in (the male) world. Distinctions between pleasure and danger are academic; the dirty-laundrylist of 'sex acts' ... includes rape, foot binding, fellatio, intercourse, auto eroticism, incest, anal intercourse, use and production of pornography, cunnilingus, sexual harassment, and murder" - Judith Levine; summarizing comment on the WAS document (A Southern Women's Writing Collective: Women Against Sex)
*((Delaney Nickerson, of the American Coalition for ABUSE AWARENESS, refers to the False Memory Syndrome Foundation as "The F---ing Molesters Society" (Miami Herald, April 3, 1995) The ACAA is a lobbying group, which includes Ellen Bass (co-author of THE COURAGE TO HEAL), and Rene Frederickson, leading feminist psychotherapist and strong proponent of repressed memory theory))
*((At the STONE ANGELS satanic ritual abuse conference in Thunder Bay in February, 1995, the following was contained in the handouts at a conference supported financially by the Ontario Government: FMS stands for: FULL OF MOSTLY SH*T; FOR MORE SADISM; FELONS, MURDERERS, SCUMBALLS; FREQUENT MOLESTERS SOCIETY))
*"Women have their faults / men have only two: / everything they say / everything they do" {{Fact|Date=March 2008}} -- Popular Feminist Graffiti
*"I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal" - Sylvia Fraser, Journalist
*[[Catharine MacKinnon]] maintains that "the private is a sphere of battery, marital rape and women's exploited labor." In this way, privacy and family are reduced to nothing more than aspects of the master plan, which is male domination. Democratic freedoms and the need to keep the state's nose out of our personal affairs are rendered meaningless. The real reason our society cherishes privacy is because men have invented it as an excuse to conceal their criminality. If people still insist that the traditional family is about love and mutual aid - ideals which, admittedly, are sometimes betrayed - they're "hiding from the truth" The family isn't a place where battery and marital rape sometimes happen but where little else apparently does. Sick men don't simply molest their daughters, they operate in league with their wives to "breed" them for that purpose - Donna Laframboise; The Princess at the Window (in a critical explication of the Catharine MacKinnon, [[Gloria Steinem]] et al, tenets of misandric belief)
*"If the classroom situation is very heteropatriarchal - a large beginning class of 50 to 60 students, say, with few feminist students - I am likely to define my task as largely one of recruitment ... of persuading students that women are oppressed" - Professor Joyce Trebilcot of Washington University, as quoted in Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women
*"Men, as a group, tend to be abusive, either verbally, sexually or emotionally. There are always the exceptions, but they are few and far between (I am married to one of them). There are different levels of violence and abuse and individual men buy into this system by varying degrees. But the male power structure always remains intact." - Message on FEMISA, responding to a request for arguments that men are unnecessary for a child to grow into mature adulthood.
*Another posting on FEMISA: "Considering the nature and pervasiveness of men's violence, I would say that without question, children are better off being raised without the presence of men. Assaults on women and children are mostly perpetrated by men whom they are supposed to love and trust: fathers, brothers, uncles, grandfathers, step-fathers." (Both above quotes taken from Daphne Patai's excellent critical work, [[Heterophobia]])
*"At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which I likened my fate as a woman to other victims throughout the ages." {{fact}} - Heather Hart 7
*Here are 10 reasons why we are concerned about feminism and the National Organisation for Women
1. "The simple fact is that every woman must be willing to be identified as a lesbian to be fully feminist" - National NOW Times, January, 1988
2. "Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage" - feminist leader Sheila Cronan
3. In response to a question concerning China's policy of compulsory abortion after the first child, Molly Yard responded, "I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world" - Gary Bauer, "Abetting Coercion in China" The Washington Times, Oct. 10, 1989
4. "Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole ... patriarch!" - [[Gloria Steinem]], radical feminist leader, editor of Ms. Magazine
5. "Marriage has existed for the benefit of men; and has been a legally sanctioned method of control over women.... We must work to destroy it. The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men ... All of history must be re-written in terms of oppression of women. We must go back to ancient female religions like witchcraft" (from "The Declaration of Feminism" November, 1971)
6. "By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God" - [[Gloria Steinem]], editor of Ms. Magazine)
7. "Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace, and inspiration from real women ... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world" - Annie Laurie Gaylor, "Feminist Salvation," The Humanist, p. 37, July/August 1988
8. "In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them" - Dr. Mary Jo Bane, feminist and assistant professor of education at Wellesley College, and associate director of the school's Center for Research on Woman
9. "Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family- maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that" - Vivian Gornick, feminist author, University of Illinois, The Daily Illini, April 25, 1981
10. "The most merciful thing a large family can to do one of its infant members is to kill it" - Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, in "Women and the New Race" p. 67
*"Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy." - Estelle R. Ramey
*"I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Our Girls"
*"We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men" - [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], from her diary of December 27, 1890, quoting a letter she wrote. <ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=CIsEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA270&lpg=PA270&dq=%22we+are+as+a+sex+infinitely+superior+to+men%22&source=web&ots=FqYVyWK-s6&sig=tnXoiGvopCcO1vFaoF7nmSvtXPM&hl=en#PPA270,M1</ref>
From 'A feminist Dictionary; ed. Kramarae and Triechler, Pandora Press, 1985:
*MALE: ... represents a variant of or deviation from the category of female. The first males were mutants ... the male sex represents a degeneration and deformity of the female
*MAN: ... an obsolete life form ... an ordinary creature who needs to be watched ...a contradictory baby-man ...
*TESTOSTERONE POISONING: ... 'Until now it has been though that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it. But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from "testosterone poisoning"
*Letter to editor: "Women's Turn to Dominate" "... Clearly you are not yet a free-thinking feminist but rather one of those women who bounce off the male-dominated, male-controlled social structures. Who cares how men feel or what they do or whether they suffer? They have had over 2000 years to dominate and made a complete hash of it. Now it is our turn. My only comment to men is: if you don't like it, bad luck - and if you get in my way I'll run you down" Signed: Liberated Women, Boronia Herald-Sun, Melbourne, Australia. 9 February, 1996
*“Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism” - Catharine MacKinnon
*The English novelist and critic [[Rebecca West]] said <ref>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rebecca_west.html</ref> :
*<blockquote> "I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute." </blockquote>
==See also==
==See also==
*[[Radical feminism]]
*[[Anti-Feminism]]
*[[Essay:Gender and Sysops]]
*[[Feminism and housewives]]
*[[Essay:Conservapedia and Women]]
*[[Feminist style]]
*[[Kinder, Küche, Kirche]]
*[[Gender equality]]
*[[Feminism/Anecdote]]
*[[Gender police]]
*[[Feminists for Life]]
*[[Feminism and reason]]
*[[Feminist hypocrisy]]
*[[Battered woman syndrome]]
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==References==
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==Footnotes==
==External Links==
*[http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/ The Feminist eZine] Archive of articles about Feminist History.
*[http://www.cia-on-campus.org/surveil/steinem.html Gloria Steinem and the CIA], ''The New York Times'', February 21, 1967.
*[http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg02217.html Inside the CIA with Gloria Steinem], Nancy Borman, ''The Village Voice''.
*[http://www.american.com/archive/2008/march-april-magazine-contents/why-can2019t-a-woman-be-more-like-a-man Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?], Christina Hoff Sommers, ''The American'' March/April 2008.
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