Karen Straughan makes a distinction between ideological feminism and cofeehouse feminism. Ideological feminism is of course more aggressive and man hating but is not realy that important. The problem is not really the feminist theory and what some crazy feminist gender studies professors say.
The problem is this feminism extended. People who passed Violence against Women Act, Title IX, all those domestic violence, rape, harassment, alimony legislations and policies, ..... they are usually not 'feminists per se'. They are not self-declared feminists. So, the problem is not feminism proper. Problem is that the society has long ago accepted the following axiom: 'women are oppressed'. And most people who believe this axiom are not feminists. They are in many cases conservatives, tories, republicans, libertarians...... The society has accepted the statement 'women are oppressed' as truth and the whole truth. Now, where feminists come in is to find all the ways in which women are oppressed, to invent as many issues as possible that women are suffering from in their lives.
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Karen Straughan makes a distinction between ideological feminism and cofeehouse feminism. Ideological feminism is of course more aggressive and man hating but is not realy that important. The problem is not really the feminist theory and what some crazy feminist gender studies professors say.
The problem is this feminism extended. People who passed Violence against Women Act, Title IX, all those domestic violence, rape, harassment, alimony legislations and policies, ..... they are usually not 'feminists per se'. They are not self-declared feminists. So, the problem is not feminism proper. Problem is that the society has long ago accepted the following axiom: 'women are oppressed'. And most people who believe this axiom are not feminists. They are in many cases conservatives, tories, republicans, libertarians...... The society has accepted the statement 'women are oppressed' as truth and the whole truth. Now, where feminists come in is to find all the ways in which women are oppressed, to invent as many issues as possible that women are suffering from in their lives.
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