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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 late 1900s, however, [[liberals]] had changed the meaning to represent people who favored [[abortion]] and the identical treatment of women in the military and in society as a whole. Specifically, modern feminists tend to:
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[[Image:Braque woman 400pix.jpg|thumb|200px|''Woman with a guitar'' by [[Georges Braque]], 1913.]]
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'''Feminism''' is a destructive ideology that can cause alienation between women and men. Feminism denies, or downplays, differences between men and women. Feminism opposes homemaking, child-rearing, and [[homeschooling]], while promoting participation by women in predominantly male activities, regardless of their life pursuits or interests. Most prominent modern feminists support [[abortion]] and promote [[misandry]].
  
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* believe that a "village" (i.e., others) should raise children rather than the child's father and mother<ref>Leading feminist [[Hillary Clinton]]'s famous book was entitled, "It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us," in reference to raising children.</ref>
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Attributes common to many feminists include an [[entitlement mentality]] and a "chip on one's shoulder" attitude, despite often benefiting from a life of privilege.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSo-q2Dq1aY ''Mickey Randleman - _Feminist_ (IWPS 2014) - 1080P HD_this video was deleted by buttons youtube channel'']</ref>
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* loathe [[chivalry]] and dislike men patronizing women, as in holding the door open for them
 
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* anti-father, viewing traditional [[marriage]] as unacceptably patriarchal
 
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* dislike of macho activities, like male-only contact sports
 
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* prefer for role-reversal, like girls playing football and boys being cheerleaders for it, or men baking cookies for women
 
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* oppose single-sex schooling and seek to abolish all-male ''private'' clubs
 
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* express outrage at highly macho events, like the Duke lacrosse party or [[Tailhook]]
 
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* insist that childrearing activities be shared equally by men and women in every respect, rather than a productive division of labor
 
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* support [[affirmative action]] for women
 
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* detest women who are happy in traditional roles, such as housewife, and especially dislike those who defend such roles
 
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* prefer that women wear pants rather than dresses, presumably because men do
 
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* women in combat in the military just like men, and coed submarines
 
  
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==History==
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Feminism can disrupt marriages, relationships, child-rearing, education, and the workplace. The feminist ideology is particularly dominant in elite universities, many large corporations, and competitive women's team sports. Feminism claims it wants to make men and women equal but in reality, it opposes equal support for men.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2015/11/18/male-university-of-york-student-commits-suicide-on-day-his-university-ditches-international-mens-day-after-pressure-from-feminists/ "Male University of York Student Commits Suicide on Day His University Ditches International Men’s day"]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWgslugtDow ''Feminists protesting Men's Rights talk pull fire alarm, 4/4/2013'']</ref>
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Roots of the movement in the United States and the United Kingdom include the [[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.
 
  
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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. The majority of Americans felt that its passage would entail several consequences, including making girls subject to the military draft, the integration of single-sex schools, the possible recognition of homosexual marriage, and the revocation of laws that protect women in dangerous jobs, such as factory or mining work. {{fact}}
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Feminism was originally a term 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."'' [https://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, at the height of Second-wave feminism, [[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. Today in the midst of Third-wave feminism, or feminazism, some feminists are enforcers of [[liberal censorship]] and [[political correctness]], at the expense of [[free speech]]. In fact, much of what drove Second-wave feminism and what now drives Third-wave feminism was derived from [[Communist]] doctrine and both have a great deal in common, including the shared goal of the destruction of the family and the promotion of homosexuality and promiscuity (via Goal 26 of the 1963 Communist goals for America).<ref>[https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/09/04/feminism-is-communism/ Feminism is Communism]</ref><ref>[http://fathersforlife.org/feminism/hubbard1.htm Feminist family politics and their roots in Communist ideology]</ref>
  
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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.
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==Opinions of feminists==
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[[File:The Transformed Wife 2-2-2023.jpg|thumbnail|800px|right|Anti-feminist social media post by the Christian blogger Lori Alexander whose blog is The Transformed Wife.
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The Bible does place the primary responsibility of being the provider on the husband. However, the hardworking Proverbs 31 woman and wife in the Bible did sell carpets in the marketplace in addition to tending the home.]]
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Most feminists:
  
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During the administration of [[Bill Clinton]], feminism made a partial resurgence, but feminist leadership largely failed 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>
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* want to remove significant distinctions between how men and women dress, such as preferring that women wear pantsuits rather than dresses,<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> even though many feminists also want women to dress immodestly. In some cases, most infamously during the Miss America protests in 1968, feminists have even gone as far as to indicate that female products such as makeup, bras, and heels were "instruments of oppression."
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* do not want gender equality; they want power for the female Left.<ref>[http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2011/feb11/11-02-11.html Phyllis Schlafly, "Feminism Has Become a Hot Topic"]</ref>
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* in movies and television, portray the men, in particular, the white heterosexual men, as inherently evil, dumb or incompetent, and the women, in particular those that adhere to the feminist agenda, as inherently good, smart or competent (note that this conflicts with gender equality).
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** on that note, some movies and television programs, in addition to depicting men as inherently evil, dumb, or incompetent, can sometimes depict women who adhere to more traditional femininity, including promoting traditional family values and traditional marriage (see below), as well as expressing more traditional gender roles and natures, in an extremely demeaning manner, usually implying that they are at best brainless bimbos and at worst golddiggers (women who only marry someone for their wealth), often with the implication that traditional femininity is considered inherently bad (which goes against the concept of women having free choices regarding how to pursue their life).
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* conveniently pretend that there are no meaningful differences between men and women when that advances [[liberal]] causes (e.g., women and men equally in military combat, to weaken the U.S. military), but reject equality when that results in more money to women (e.g., [[VAWA]] funding of women's groups).
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* oppose [[chivalry]] and even feign insult at harmless displays of it (see battle between the sexes).
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* view traditional [[marriage]] as unacceptably "patriarchal".
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* belittle and mock other women who desire to have children or raise a family<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/etc/03261992.html Nightline Transcripts, "Making Hillary Clinton an Issue"], [[PBS]]</ref><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>
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* 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." [https://web.archive.org/web/20071204191342/http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/arts/story.html?k=60432&id=3b3c71f6-0d7d-4e1a-b8fb-cf8d5b1af478]</ref>
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* support [[affirmative action]] for women.
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* advocate for [[women in combat]] in the military being just like men, and coed submarines.
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* refuse to take her husband's last name when marrying.<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2003/10/16/names_2/  Mrs. Feminist ]: "(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.</ref>
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* believe marriage implies "female servitude" when it is in fact a mutual bond.
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* distort historical focus onto female figures, often overshadowing important events (E.g., Henry VIII's wives take precedence in common knowledge to his actual reign.)
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* often condemn the God-given order of gender roles, as laid out in the Holy [[Bible]].
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* object to being addressed as "ma'am," or feminine nicknames such as "sweetheart" or "honey";<ref>[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-06-19/news/0906180620_1_sen-barbara-boxer-ma-am-state-condoleezza-rice Sen. Barbara Boxer: No ma'am references, please], [[Chicago Tribune]]</ref> object to other female-only names, such as "temptress".
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* take offense at grammatical rules of the English language, like using the pronoun "he" when referring to a hypothetical/anonymous person, or phrases like 'fireman' and 'stewardess.'
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* support the [[homosexual agenda]].
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* push propaganda that implies that women weren't allowed to be granted an education until the 1960s, and all education beforehand was granted solely to "rich white males."<ref>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/e02pmeur6q4yb/World_History_up_to_the_1500s</ref>
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* demands that women choose a career over raising children without any remorse.
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* criticize music such as [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]], [[rock and roll]], and [[country music|country]] for being "sexist".
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* object to anyone describing [[Northern Europe|Northern]] and [[Western Europe]]an women being [[modesty|demure]] or [[Southern Europe|Southern]] and [[Eastern Europe]]an women as [[seduction|seductive]].
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* Denounce and demean any women who have more feminine traits and embrace their femininity.
  
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==Quotations==
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Note that women who have to take over the family business due to their parents not having a son and the parents themselves being unable to continue working in the area are not considered feminists due to the circumstances involved. Some feminists want to do away with masculinity.<ref>Ernst, Douglas (October 30, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/30/occidental-college-professor-attack-masculinity-di/ Professor pushes the need to ‘attack masculinity directly’ to survive the Trump era]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved October 31, 2017.</ref>
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*"The nuclear family must be destroyed ... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process" - Linda Gordon
 
  
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*"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." - Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor
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==History==
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Roots of the movement in the United States and the United Kingdom include the [[suffrage|Women's Suffrage]] movement of the early 1900s (First-wave feminism) and the Women's Liberation (Second-wave feminism) movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Feminism was glamorized in the 1940s and 1950s by Hollywood film stars such as [[Joan Crawford]], attempting to portray a single mother as having a successful career and family without a husband.  Second-wave feminism had its roots in [[Betty Friedan]] and [[Simone de Beauvoir]], who both advocated for the abolition of the career of housewife with the false implication that it was comparable to a Nazi concentration camp or a parasite, though they are more akin to the later third-wave feminism, as they fought against what they saw as patriarchal systems designed to hold women down. Another notable feminist was Simone Veil, who was instrumental in legalizing abortion in France. One of her key methods to its legalization was citing her experience as a holocaust survivor.<ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/30/534974403/french-politician-simone-veil-holocaust-survivor-and-abortion-pioneer-dies-at-89</ref>
  
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*"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" - Robin Morgan
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The [[Equal Rights Amendment]] (ERA), whose proponents claimed would address the inadequacies of the [[Fourteenth Amendment]] concerning women and citizenship, was proposed in the US in 1923.  The amendment was passed by [[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 versions of ERA, several of these results were subsequently ordered by courts.<ref>For example, the [[Hawaii]] and [[Massachusetts]] Supreme Courts illegally ordered the issuance of homosexual "marriage" licenses based in part on their state ERAs, and the [[New Mexico]] Supreme Court illegally ordered taxpayer-funded abortion based on its state ERA.</ref>
  
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*"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)  
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The feminist movement in the West evolved in the 1980s with the rise of so-called [[Post-Feminism]] (Third-wave feminism), which stresses that women have many rights that go unrecognized, often by women themselves, in everyday life, and in the [[Critical legal studies|American legal structure]]. Most members of the feminist movement support reproductive rights currently guaranteed by American law, including the legal right to abortion. Many conservatives oppose this stance. Third-wave feminism has been highly influenced by postmodern thought, and is a more intellectual form of feminism. It fights against the systems that it sees as detrimental to women as a group, systems designed to keep women in traditional roles, in contrast with second-wave feminism, which fought for equal rights and pay with men in a fight against the traditional status of women as second-class citizens. Another distinction made from second-wave feminism is the claimed recognition of the struggles faced by women who are minorities, disabled, immigrants, etc. (intersection theory), as most second-wave feminists focused only on white suburban middle-class able-bodied women. Second-wave feminism, however, was not always a good thing, as it pushed for abortion.
  
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*"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, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become [[lesbian]]s" - Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992
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Political commentator [[Rush Limbaugh]] (1951-2021), who was very prominent on radio, coined the term "Feminazis" to refer to extreme feminist activists.
  
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*"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
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One of the major features of feminism prior to the 1990s was opposition to women being treated as [[sex objects]]. However, some feminists today support women being sex objects, viewing it as a means of empowerment over the traditional [[Judeo-Christian]] family structure and [[conservative values]]. While there is a push for sex-positive feminism (seen in works like ''The Vagina Monologues''), it is not necessarily a push for the objectification of women. Largely, feminists fight against this objectification of women. The opposite of sex-positive is sex-negative, which is predominantly used as a snarl word to label critics of the porn industry. Ultimately, however, it continues on the same promotion of [[liberalism]] and [[anti-Christian]] values, as feminists today treat [[Women's rights and Islam|Islam's cruel treatment of women]] as a matter of "personal choice". Similarly, the National Organization for Women proceeded to list the likes of [[Hugh Hefner]], the founder of the infamous porn rag ''Playboy'', as a "defender of women."<ref>http://worthy-magazine.com/hugh-hefner-defender-of-women-says-republicans-at-war-with-sex/</ref><ref>http://rosemarycounter.com/hugh-hefner-dirty-old-man-or-radical-feminist/</ref>
  
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*"We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage" - Robin Morgan
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During the administration of [[Bill Clinton]], feminism made a partial resurgence, although feminist leadership was criticized by people such as Christina Odone and Candice E. Jackson 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>
  
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*"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" - Robin Morgan
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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>
  
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*"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]], [[SCUM]] founder (Society for Cutting Up Men)
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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 [[Marxism|Marx]], is condemning women to a new servitude: slavery to the State."<ref>Larrey Anderson, ''The Feminine Mistake'', ''American Thinker'', November 29, 2009</ref>
  
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*"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness...can be trained to do most things" - Jilly Cooper, [[SCUM]] (Society For Cutting Up Men, started by [[Valerie Solanas]])
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==Critique==
  
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*"Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human." - Robin Morgan
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[[Christine Hoff Sommers]] wrote:
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:... The problem with feminism is not that it has fostered achievement for women. Rather, it is feminism's attempts to demean the roles and achievements of men and "feminize" boys that are problematic. [https://www.amazon.com/WAR-AGAINST-BOYS-Misguided-Feminism/dp/0684849577]
  
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*"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
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==Feminism and reason==
  
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*"I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig" - [[Andrea Dworkin]]  
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''See also:'' [[Liberals and reason]]
  
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*"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice" - [[Andrea Dworkin]]  
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{{quotebox|"Our culture, including all that we are taught in schools and universities, is so infused with patriarchal thinking that it must be torn up root and branch if genuine change is to occur. Everything must go - even the allegedly universal disciplines of logic, mathematics and science, and the intellectual values of objectivity, clarity and precision on which the former depend." — Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge, Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women’s Studies, (New York Basic Books, 1994), p.116 [http://endofmen.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/why-feminism-is-a-fraud/] }}
  
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*"Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies" - [[Andrea Dworkin]]  
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Feminists in the [[Swedish]] government on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2017, were urged by the Iranian women's rights activist Masih Alinejad “to stand for their own dignity” and to refuse to wear the compulsory [[hijab]] while visiting Iran. The pleas were ignored. The Jihad Watch website reported,<ref>[https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/02/swedens-first-feminist-government-dons-hijabs-in-iran ]</ref>
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{{Quotebox|Sweden’s female leaders have not only betrayed all women who fight for equality globally, but they have also fully exposed how confused they are: they are so-called feminists who – for example — furiously insist on control over their own bodies to choose abortion, but they are willing to fully submit to male dominance at the demand of Muslim men to dictate their clothing. And they did so in front of a global audience to boot.}}
  
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*"In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice" - [[Andrea Dworkin]]  
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==Cultural Marxism==
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While the Feminist movement may contribute to  the [[Cultural Marxist]] undermining of [[family values]], the main cause is [[divorce|marital breakdown]], and fathers who abandon their family, or fail  to contribute to the raising of their children, Studies show that:
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*63 percent of youth suicides take place in fatherless homes.
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*90 percent of all homeless youth and runaways are from fatherless homes, which is a whopping 32 times the national average.
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*85 percent of all children with behavior issues come from fatherless homes, 20 times the national average.
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*80 percent of rapists with established anger issues come from fatherless homes, 14 times the national average.
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*71 percent of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes, nine times the national average.
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*70 percent of those in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes, nine times the national average.
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*85 percent of all juveniles in prison come from single-parent households, 20 times the national average.
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*90 percent of adolescent repeat arson offenders are from fatherless homes.
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*Fatherless children are nearly twice as likely to be victims of abuse or neglect.<ref>https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/07/no_author/bowling-alone-how-washington-has-helped-destroy-american-civil-society-and-family-life/</ref>
  
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*Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman" - [[Andrea Dworkin]]  
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== Feminism and population decline in [[the West]] ==
  
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*"To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is" - [[Andrea Dworkin]]  
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The historian Martin van Creveld wrote in his book ''Equality: The Impossible Quest':
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{{Cquote|In many modern societies, the advent of feminism has caused men and women to be placed on a more equal footing than ever before. The catch is that, in most of the societies in question, women, desperately trying to achieve what they see as equality, no longer bear enough children to maintain the population. Some countries, such as the U.S., are making up for the deficit by [[immigration|importing millions of foreigners]]. Others, such as Japan, seem resigned to gradual demographic decline and hope that robots will make up the difference. If demographics count for anything, the future of patriarchy — not the comparatively mild form of patriarchy that is said to have characterized [[the West]], but the more rigorous [[Islam]]ic variety—seems assured...
  
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*Q: People think you are very hostile to men A: "I am" - [[Andrea Dworkin]]
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If present trends continue, the societies in which the movement towards women’s equality is strongest are simply doomed to disappear.<ref>Martin van Creveld, ''Equality: The Impossible Quest'' (p. 165-166, 174). Castalia House. Kindle Edition</ref>}}
  
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*"Men use the night to erase us" - [[Andrea Dworkin]]
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==Quotations==
  
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*"The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality" - [[Andrea Dworkin]]  
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*"Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives" - [[Andrea Dworkin]]
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== Intersectionality==
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As women attain a majority in society and a significant portion of the workforce, including leadership positions, the predicate of "disadvantage" was overtaken by competing  "identity groups."  In fact, many women identify with these other groups, and a theory was needed to sort out conflicting claims for social redress.  For example, should the alleged social handicap of being a black deaf woman be addressed in terms of 1) race, 2) hearing impairment or 3) gender?  Under the [[intersectionality]] theory, such people should receive accommodations from society for all of their identities, and a hierarchy of identified groups governs how much claim each group has to social capital based upon identity. Without intersectionality, the comparative privilege held by women in Western societies would be overshadowed by and put into competition with the claims of other identity groups.
  
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*"Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination" - [[Andrea Dworkin]], Pornography: Men Possessing Women
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"Intersectionality" was coined by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.law.columbia.edu/pt-br/news/2017/06/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality | title=Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later | accessd-date=9 March 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223111809/https://www.law.columbia.edu/pt-br/news/2017/06/kimberle-crenshaw-intersectionality | archive-date=23 February 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://philpapers.org/archive/CREDTI.pdf |title=Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics |author=Kimberlé Krenshaw |publisher=University of Chicago Legal Forum |date=1989 |accessdate=7 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513141436/https://philpapers.org/archive/CREDTI.pdf |archive-date=13 May 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>  Without intersectionality, feminism and its advocates would be regarded as out-of-date by social justice warriors.
  
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*"On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom" - [[Andrea Dworkin]], Pornography: Men Possessing Women
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== Atheist feminism ==
  
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*"The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist" - Ti-Grace Atkinson
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''See also:'' [[Atheist feminism]] and [[Atheism and women's rights]] and [[Atheism and women]]
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[[File:Annie Laurie Gaylor.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|[[Annie Laurie Gaylor]] is an atheist feminist. She is co-president of the [[Freedom From Religion Foundation]]. 
  
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*"Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice" - Ti-Grace Atkinson
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Gaylor's husband, [[Dan Barker]], who heads the organization along with her, is usually the person invited to speaking engagements, despite her longer tenure as the organization's leader and her many books on atheism.<ref>Bekiempis, Victoria (Summer 2011). [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/26/new-atheism-boys-club "Why the New Atheism is a boys' club"].  Bitch Magazine, no. 51.  Retrieved from September 26, 2011 edition of The Guardian/CommentaryIsFree.</ref>]]
  
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*"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
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Surveys throughout the world and other data indicate that women are less inclined to be [[atheism|atheists]].<ref>Khan, Razib (November 18, 2010).  [http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/11/sex-differences-in-global-atheism-part-n/ "Gene expression; Sex differences in global atheism, part N"].  Discover magazine website.
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*Carter, Stephen L. (March 27, 2015).  [http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-27/the-atheism-gap "The atheism gap"].  ''BloombergView''.
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*[http://blog.oup.com/2014/09/atheism-feminism/#sthash.0yIBbelF.dpuf Atheism and Feminism], ''Oxford University Press'' blog</ref>
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<ref name="PZ">Myers, P.Z. (June 29, 2010).  [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/06/29/the-woman-problem/ "The woman problem"]. Pharyngula [blog].</ref> See: [[Atheism and women]]
  
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*"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
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[[Atheist feminism]] is a type of feminism whose advocates are [[Atheism|atheists]].  
  
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*"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression" - Sheila Jeffrys
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Writing on the [[Atheism and sexism|sexism within the atheist population]], atheist Victoria Bekiempis wrote in a ''Guardian'' article entitled ''Why the [[New Atheism]] is a boys' club'': 
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{{cquote|[[Annie Laurie Gaylor]], who founded the Freedom From Religion Foundation with her mother, Anne Nicol Gaylor, in 1978, sums it up succinctly: “One word — sexism.” Gaylor’s husband, Dan Barker, who helms the organization along with her, is usually the one invited to speaking engagements, despite her longer tenure as the organization’s leader and her numerous books on atheism.<ref>Bekiempis, Victoria (Summer 2011). [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/26/new-atheism-boys-club "Why the New Atheism is a boys' club"].  Bitch Magazine, no. 51.  Retrieved from September 26, 2011 edition of The Guardian/CommentaryIsFree.</ref>}}
  
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*"Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated" - Catharine MacKinnon
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Feminists who are [[theism|theists]] often belong to religious bodies which practice [[liberal]] theology. In addition, some feminists practice goddess worship. Since atheism rejects theism, atheistic feminism rejects/disbelieves in the existence of God or gods (see: [[Definition of atheism]]).
  
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*"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman" - Catharine MacKinnon
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=== Atheism, women, men and atheist feminism ===
  
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*"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)  
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Since most atheists lean Left politically (see: [[Atheism and politics]]) most atheist women are feminists. However, this may not apply to atheist men or apply to a lesser degree, given that a significant majority of atheists are men and that the men's rights movement has many atheist men within it. [[Reddit]] is a popular place for atheists and a Reddit survey found that 94% of Men's Rights Movement supporters indicated that they had no religion (see also: [[Reddit atheism]]).<ref>[http://www.rawstory.com/2014/04/confirmed-mens-rights-activism-is-for-misogynists-without-god/ Confirmed: "Men’s Rights Activism" Is For Misogynists Without God], ''Raw Story''</ref> YouTube's most popular atheist is [[TheAmazingAtheist]] who is a men's rights activist. Another popular YouTube atheist [[Thunderf00t]] is very critical of feminism within atheism (See also: [[Atheism plus]]).
  
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*"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''
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=== Atheist movement, feminism and schism within atheism ===
  
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*"The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men" - Sharon Stone, Actress
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Within the [[atheist movement]] post [[New Atheism]] and the [[Elevatorgate]] controversy, there has been a lot of conflict between [[Atheism|atheists]] concerning feminism. One of the results of the conflict was the new atheist [[Richard Dawkins]] losing a lot of public support and support among the irreligious (see: [[Richard Dawkins' loss of influence]]).
  
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*"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
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=== Atheist feminism and its view of religion ===
  
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*"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''
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*"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
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== Femen ==
  
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*"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
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*"If anyone is prosecuted for filing a false report, then victims of real attacks will be less likely to report them" - David Angier
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[[Femen]] is a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] radical feminist activist group that is now based in Paris. According to the ''[[Washington Post]]'', "Femen’s members consider [[atheism]] to be a fundamental tenet of the group’s ideology."<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/12/meet-femen-naked-shock-troops-feminism-who-greeted-trump-with-topless-protest-paris/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eb5ef3499053 Meet Femen, the ‘naked shock troops of feminism’ who greeted Trump with a topless protest in Paris], By Antonia Noori Farzan, Washington Post, November 12, 2018</ref>
  
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*"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. &hellip; 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 [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973077-6,00.html]
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Femen engages in topless publicity stunts/protests. Femen was one of the first radical feminist organizations to gain transnational media publicity.
  
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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" - Marilyn French (her emphasis)
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== Christianity and women's rights ==
  
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*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" - Marilyn French; The Woman's Room
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*"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" - Marilyn French
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== Christianity, head coverings and feminism ==
  
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*"All men are rapists and that's all they are" - Marilyn French, Authoress; (later, advisoress to Al Gore's Presidential Campaign)  
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*"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" {{fact}} - Marilyn French
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[[Head covering (Christianity)|Head coverings]], as per the [[Saint Paul|Apostle Paul]]'s first letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 11: 1-15), are to be worn by women when praying.<ref>[http://www.limerickcitychurch.com/biblical-teaching-of-head-covering.html THE BIBLICAL TEACHING OF HEADCOVERING] by Keith Malcomson</ref>
  
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*"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
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In the [[Western World]], up until the 1960s when feminism became prevalent, women wore head coverings to [[church]]. Among [[Eastern Orthodoxy]], [[Christianity|Christians]] in the [[Middle East]] and some parts of [[Asia]], women commonly still wear head coverings to church.
  
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*"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
 
  
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*"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
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*((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))
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*"Women have their faults / men have only two: / everything they say / everything they do" -- Popular Feminist Graffiti
 
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*"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
 
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*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 Steinhem et al, tenets of misandric belief)
 
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi-ftIGVsCI Dana Loesch Rips Feminists] on [[Louder With Crowder]]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_ESpTudus #SJW Feminist Myths Destroyed by Karen Straughan] on Louder With Crowder
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRj2qMLq8SY Feminism & Fat Pride: The Unholy Alliance] on Louder With Crowder with [[Paul Joseph Watson]]
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYo1ewgG94M The Truth About 'Rape Culture'] by Paul Joseph Watson
 
*[http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/ The Feminist eZine] Archive of articles about Feminist History.
 
*[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.cia-on-campus.org/surveil/steinem.html Gloria Steinem and the CIA], ''The New York Times'', February 21, 1967.
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*[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.
 
*[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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Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque, 1913.

Feminism is a destructive ideology that can cause alienation between women and men. Feminism denies, or downplays, differences between men and women. Feminism opposes homemaking, child-rearing, and homeschooling, while promoting participation by women in predominantly male activities, regardless of their life pursuits or interests. Most prominent modern feminists support abortion and promote misandry.

Attributes common to many feminists include an entitlement mentality and a "chip on one's shoulder" attitude, despite often benefiting from a life of privilege.[1]

Feminism can disrupt marriages, relationships, child-rearing, education, and the workplace. The feminist ideology is particularly dominant in elite universities, many large corporations, and competitive women's team sports. Feminism claims it wants to make men and women equal but in reality, it opposes equal support for men.[2][3]

Feminism was originally a term used by suffragettes – who were predominantly pro-life[4][5][6] – to obtain the right for women to vote in the early 1900s in the United States and the United Kingdom. By the 1970s, however, at the height of Second-wave feminism, 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. Today in the midst of Third-wave feminism, or feminazism, some feminists are enforcers of liberal censorship and political correctness, at the expense of free speech. In fact, much of what drove Second-wave feminism and what now drives Third-wave feminism was derived from Communist doctrine and both have a great deal in common, including the shared goal of the destruction of the family and the promotion of homosexuality and promiscuity (via Goal 26 of the 1963 Communist goals for America).[7][8]

Opinions of feminists

Anti-feminist social media post by the Christian blogger Lori Alexander whose blog is The Transformed Wife.

The Bible does place the primary responsibility of being the provider on the husband. However, the hardworking Proverbs 31 woman and wife in the Bible did sell carpets in the marketplace in addition to tending the home.

Most feminists:

  • want to remove significant distinctions between how men and women dress, such as preferring that women wear pantsuits rather than dresses,[9][10] even though many feminists also want women to dress immodestly. In some cases, most infamously during the Miss America protests in 1968, feminists have even gone as far as to indicate that female products such as makeup, bras, and heels were "instruments of oppression."
  • do not want gender equality; they want power for the female Left.[11]
  • in movies and television, portray the men, in particular, the white heterosexual men, as inherently evil, dumb or incompetent, and the women, in particular those that adhere to the feminist agenda, as inherently good, smart or competent (note that this conflicts with gender equality).
    • on that note, some movies and television programs, in addition to depicting men as inherently evil, dumb, or incompetent, can sometimes depict women who adhere to more traditional femininity, including promoting traditional family values and traditional marriage (see below), as well as expressing more traditional gender roles and natures, in an extremely demeaning manner, usually implying that they are at best brainless bimbos and at worst golddiggers (women who only marry someone for their wealth), often with the implication that traditional femininity is considered inherently bad (which goes against the concept of women having free choices regarding how to pursue their life).
  • conveniently pretend that there are no meaningful differences between men and women when that advances liberal causes (e.g., women and men equally in military combat, to weaken the U.S. military), but reject equality when that results in more money to women (e.g., VAWA funding of women's groups).
  • oppose chivalry and even feign insult at harmless displays of it (see battle between the sexes).
  • view traditional marriage as unacceptably "patriarchal".
  • belittle and mock other women who desire to have children or raise a family[12][13]
  • shirk traditional gender activities, like baking.[14]
  • support affirmative action for women.
  • advocate for women in combat in the military being just like men, and coed submarines.
  • refuse to take her husband's last name when marrying.[15]
  • believe marriage implies "female servitude" when it is in fact a mutual bond.
  • distort historical focus onto female figures, often overshadowing important events (E.g., Henry VIII's wives take precedence in common knowledge to his actual reign.)
  • often condemn the God-given order of gender roles, as laid out in the Holy Bible.
  • object to being addressed as "ma'am," or feminine nicknames such as "sweetheart" or "honey";[16] object to other female-only names, such as "temptress".
  • take offense at grammatical rules of the English language, like using the pronoun "he" when referring to a hypothetical/anonymous person, or phrases like 'fireman' and 'stewardess.'
  • support the homosexual agenda.
  • push propaganda that implies that women weren't allowed to be granted an education until the 1960s, and all education beforehand was granted solely to "rich white males."[17]
  • demands that women choose a career over raising children without any remorse.
  • criticize music such as heavy metal, rock and roll, and country for being "sexist".
  • object to anyone describing Northern and Western European women being demure or Southern and Eastern European women as seductive.
  • Denounce and demean any women who have more feminine traits and embrace their femininity.

Note that women who have to take over the family business due to their parents not having a son and the parents themselves being unable to continue working in the area are not considered feminists due to the circumstances involved. Some feminists want to do away with masculinity.[18]

History

Roots of the movement in the United States and the United Kingdom include the Women's Suffrage movement of the early 1900s (First-wave feminism) and the Women's Liberation (Second-wave feminism) movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Feminism was glamorized in the 1940s and 1950s by Hollywood film stars such as Joan Crawford, attempting to portray a single mother as having a successful career and family without a husband. Second-wave feminism had its roots in Betty Friedan and Simone de Beauvoir, who both advocated for the abolition of the career of housewife with the false implication that it was comparable to a Nazi concentration camp or a parasite, though they are more akin to the later third-wave feminism, as they fought against what they saw as patriarchal systems designed to hold women down. Another notable feminist was Simone Veil, who was instrumental in legalizing abortion in France. One of her key methods to its legalization was citing her experience as a holocaust survivor.[19]

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), whose proponents claimed would address the inadequacies of the Fourteenth Amendment concerning women and citizenship, was proposed in the US in 1923. The amendment was passed by 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 versions of ERA, several of these results were subsequently ordered by courts.[20]

The feminist movement in the West evolved in the 1980s with the rise of so-called Post-Feminism (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. Many conservatives oppose this stance. Third-wave feminism has been highly influenced by postmodern thought, and is a more intellectual form of feminism. It fights against the systems that it sees as detrimental to women as a group, systems designed to keep women in traditional roles, in contrast with second-wave feminism, which fought for equal rights and pay with men in a fight against the traditional status of women as second-class citizens. Another distinction made from second-wave feminism is the claimed recognition of the struggles faced by women who are minorities, disabled, immigrants, etc. (intersection theory), as most second-wave feminists focused only on white suburban middle-class able-bodied women. Second-wave feminism, however, was not always a good thing, as it pushed for abortion.

Political commentator Rush Limbaugh (1951-2021), who was very prominent on radio, coined the term "Feminazis" to refer to extreme feminist activists.

One of the major features of feminism prior to the 1990s was opposition to women being treated as sex objects. However, some feminists today support women being sex objects, viewing it as a means of empowerment over the traditional Judeo-Christian family structure and conservative values. While there is a push for sex-positive feminism (seen in works like The Vagina Monologues), it is not necessarily a push for the objectification of women. Largely, feminists fight against this objectification of women. The opposite of sex-positive is sex-negative, which is predominantly used as a snarl word to label critics of the porn industry. Ultimately, however, it continues on the same promotion of liberalism and anti-Christian values, as feminists today treat Islam's cruel treatment of women as a matter of "personal choice". Similarly, the National Organization for Women proceeded to list the likes of Hugh Hefner, the founder of the infamous porn rag Playboy, as a "defender of women."[21][22]

During the administration of Bill Clinton, feminism made a partial resurgence, although feminist leadership was criticized by people such as Christina Odone and Candice E. Jackson for largely failing to criticize President Clinton's sexist behavior toward female employees as both Arkansas Governor and U.S. president.[23][24]

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." [25]

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."[26]

Critique

Christine Hoff Sommers wrote:

... The problem with feminism is not that it has fostered achievement for women. Rather, it is feminism's attempts to demean the roles and achievements of men and "feminize" boys that are problematic. [5]

Feminism and reason

See also: Liberals and reason

"Our culture, including all that we are taught in schools and universities, is so infused with patriarchal thinking that it must be torn up root and branch if genuine change is to occur. Everything must go - even the allegedly universal disciplines of logic, mathematics and science, and the intellectual values of objectivity, clarity and precision on which the former depend." — Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge, Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women’s Studies, (New York Basic Books, 1994), p.116 [6]

Feminists in the Swedish government on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2017, were urged by the Iranian women's rights activist Masih Alinejad “to stand for their own dignity” and to refuse to wear the compulsory hijab while visiting Iran. The pleas were ignored. The Jihad Watch website reported,[27]

Sweden’s female leaders have not only betrayed all women who fight for equality globally, but they have also fully exposed how confused they are: they are so-called feminists who – for example — furiously insist on control over their own bodies to choose abortion, but they are willing to fully submit to male dominance at the demand of Muslim men to dictate their clothing. And they did so in front of a global audience to boot.

Cultural Marxism

While the Feminist movement may contribute to the Cultural Marxist undermining of family values, the main cause is marital breakdown, and fathers who abandon their family, or fail to contribute to the raising of their children, Studies show that:

  • 63 percent of youth suicides take place in fatherless homes.
  • 90 percent of all homeless youth and runaways are from fatherless homes, which is a whopping 32 times the national average.
  • 85 percent of all children with behavior issues come from fatherless homes, 20 times the national average.
  • 80 percent of rapists with established anger issues come from fatherless homes, 14 times the national average.
  • 71 percent of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes, nine times the national average.
  • 70 percent of those in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes, nine times the national average.
  • 85 percent of all juveniles in prison come from single-parent households, 20 times the national average.
  • 90 percent of adolescent repeat arson offenders are from fatherless homes.
  • Fatherless children are nearly twice as likely to be victims of abuse or neglect.[28]

Feminism and population decline in the West

The historian Martin van Creveld wrote in his book Equality: The Impossible Quest':

“ In many modern societies, the advent of feminism has caused men and women to be placed on a more equal footing than ever before. The catch is that, in most of the societies in question, women, desperately trying to achieve what they see as equality, no longer bear enough children to maintain the population. Some countries, such as the U.S., are making up for the deficit by importing millions of foreigners. Others, such as Japan, seem resigned to gradual demographic decline and hope that robots will make up the difference. If demographics count for anything, the future of patriarchy — not the comparatively mild form of patriarchy that is said to have characterized the West, but the more rigorous Islamic variety—seems assured...

If present trends continue, the societies in which the movement towards women’s equality is strongest are simply doomed to disappear.[29]

”

Quotations

See Quotations about Feminism

Intersectionality

As women attain a majority in society and a significant portion of the workforce, including leadership positions, the predicate of "disadvantage" was overtaken by competing "identity groups." In fact, many women identify with these other groups, and a theory was needed to sort out conflicting claims for social redress. For example, should the alleged social handicap of being a black deaf woman be addressed in terms of 1) race, 2) hearing impairment or 3) gender? Under the intersectionality theory, such people should receive accommodations from society for all of their identities, and a hierarchy of identified groups governs how much claim each group has to social capital based upon identity. Without intersectionality, the comparative privilege held by women in Western societies would be overshadowed by and put into competition with the claims of other identity groups.

"Intersectionality" was coined by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989.[30][31] Without intersectionality, feminism and its advocates would be regarded as out-of-date by social justice warriors.

Atheist feminism

See also: Atheist feminism and Atheism and women's rights and Atheism and women

Annie Laurie Gaylor is an atheist feminist. She is co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Gaylor's husband, Dan Barker, who heads the organization along with her, is usually the person invited to speaking engagements, despite her longer tenure as the organization's leader and her many books on atheism.[32]

Surveys throughout the world and other data indicate that women are less inclined to be atheists.[33] [34] See: Atheism and women

Atheist feminism is a type of feminism whose advocates are atheists.

Writing on the sexism within the atheist population, atheist Victoria Bekiempis wrote in a Guardian article entitled Why the New Atheism is a boys' club:

“ Annie Laurie Gaylor, who founded the Freedom From Religion Foundation with her mother, Anne Nicol Gaylor, in 1978, sums it up succinctly: “One word — sexism.” Gaylor’s husband, Dan Barker, who helms the organization along with her, is usually the one invited to speaking engagements, despite her longer tenure as the organization’s leader and her numerous books on atheism.[35] ”

Feminists who are theists often belong to religious bodies which practice liberal theology. In addition, some feminists practice goddess worship. Since atheism rejects theism, atheistic feminism rejects/disbelieves in the existence of God or gods (see: Definition of atheism).

Atheism, women, men and atheist feminism

Since most atheists lean Left politically (see: Atheism and politics) most atheist women are feminists. However, this may not apply to atheist men or apply to a lesser degree, given that a significant majority of atheists are men and that the men's rights movement has many atheist men within it. Reddit is a popular place for atheists and a Reddit survey found that 94% of Men's Rights Movement supporters indicated that they had no religion (see also: Reddit atheism).[36] YouTube's most popular atheist is TheAmazingAtheist who is a men's rights activist. Another popular YouTube atheist Thunderf00t is very critical of feminism within atheism (See also: Atheism plus).

Atheist movement, feminism and schism within atheism

Within the atheist movement post New Atheism and the Elevatorgate controversy, there has been a lot of conflict between atheists concerning feminism. One of the results of the conflict was the new atheist Richard Dawkins losing a lot of public support and support among the irreligious (see: Richard Dawkins' loss of influence).

Atheist feminism and its view of religion

See: Atheist feminism and religion

Femen

See also: Femen and Atheist feminism and Atheism and women

Femen is a Ukrainian radical feminist activist group that is now based in Paris. According to the Washington Post, "Femen’s members consider atheism to be a fundamental tenet of the group’s ideology."[37]

Femen engages in topless publicity stunts/protests. Femen was one of the first radical feminist organizations to gain transnational media publicity.

Christianity and women's rights

See: Christianity and women's rights

Christianity, head coverings and feminism

See also: Head covering (Christianity)

Head coverings, as per the Apostle Paul's first letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 11: 1-15), are to be worn by women when praying.[38]

In the Western World, up until the 1960s when feminism became prevalent, women wore head coverings to church. Among Eastern Orthodoxy, Christians in the Middle East and some parts of Asia, women commonly still wear head coverings to church.

See also

References

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  3. ↑ Feminists protesting Men's Rights talk pull fire alarm, 4/4/2013
  4. ↑ Susan B. Anthony opposed abortion
  5. ↑ "There is no question that she deplored the practice of abortion, as did every one of her colleagues in the suffrage movement." Desperately Seeking Susan New York Times (13 October 2006)
  6. ↑ Voices of our Feminist Foremothers Feminists for Life
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