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http://www.alternet.org/gender/7-women-working-tirelessly-screw-over-other-women?akid=12235.277129.Akfrm6&rd=1&src=newsletter1019003&t=61. Christina Hoff Sommers. Sommers is a pioneer in the art of arguing that its men who are actually the oppressed class in modern society. Her 2000 book The War Against Boys tried to argue, falsely, that feminists are ruining young mens lives by oppressing them through the educational system. (Somehow those distressed young men continue to graduate and go on to have better job opportunities and make more money than their female peers.) She was most recently spotted offering her sup portto an organized online campaign to harass a young video game developer over her sex life.
2. Cathy Young. While Christina Hoff Sommers specializes in facetious claims about imaginary feminist oppressors, Young focuses on minimizing the problems of sexual abuse and harassment of women. Recently, she made a shoddy and dishonest claim that men get harassed more than women online, a claim that necessarily leads to the conclusion that womens greater stress over harassment must be the result of their inferior constitution. Young also objects to the new movement to pass laws requiring men only to have sex with women who want the sex, on the grounds that men cant be expected to handle something as simple as reciprocity.
3. Jill Stanek. Many women have found their calling in attacking contraception and abortion access, but Stanek, an ardent blogger, brings a hatefulness and obsessiveness that helps her stand out from an already unpleasant crowd. After getting old enough that unwanted pregnancy stopped being a personal concern, Stanek discovered that contraception has been evil all along, dedicating much of her blog to arguing that pregnancy preventionis a uniquely modern evil. Stanek also notoriou sly celebrated domestic violence, arguing that men should hit women who have abortions. That spontaneous slap was the reaction of a real man who a woman had just told she aborted his baby, she said of a notorious scene in Godfather II in which a gangster hits his wife. Compare that to the modern day cowardly male response, Its your choice. Whatever you decide, Ill support you.
4. The Politichicks. Ann-Marie Murrell, Morgan Brittany and Dr. Gina Loudon are Internet video hosts who run a show called Politichicks and have a new book out arguing that women dont actually want the equality feminists are fighting for. They laid out their philosophy recently on Fox & Friends. Beyoncés argument, complained the host, is that its okay for women to be sexual beings just like men are sexual beings. The Politichicks agreed that this was absolutely outrageous, arguing that feminists are actually sexualists and that feminist insistence that women like sex just like men do encourages violence against women.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I had never heard of some of these women.
Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)sometimes I'm ok with my cultural illiteracy.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)but I haven't been able to keep up with things as well as I wish given all I have to juggle.
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,694 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)"All my life I wanted to be somebody! Now I know I should have been more specific."
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)However, I think that is a good thing. If their goal is to deny full and equal rights to all women, they have been spectacularly unsuccessful. The time to worry is if, or when, an anti feminist voice is ever taken seriously.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)As have most conservatives.
littlemissmartypants
(22,694 posts)Guess I should Google these chickens (sic) and goog intellus, oops - Intelius- them.
Dammit.
Love, Peace and the Righteous Fight.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)It's pretty clear whom they are working against, but whom are they working for?
Cartoonist
(7,317 posts)Glad to see that I am not alone in never having heard of these people. I see most of them are online only. Which means they are as famous and important as me.