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Ms.Information
The WAll Street Journal ^ | 3/25/3 | Christina Hoff Sommers

Posted on 03/25/2003 10:03:49 AM PST by WaveThatFlag

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:48:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

March is Women's History Month, but hard-line feminists in universities and major women's groups are deciding who counts as a woman. I have been labeled a non-woman. An angry critic once referred to Margaret Thatcher and me as "those two female impersonators." Why? Because in my books and articles I have questioned the basic premise of contemporary American feminism.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: beethoven; carolgilligan; feminism; genderfeminists; margaretthatcher; marthburke; patriarchy; sojournertruth; susanbanthony; venus; womenshistorymonth
Being a feminist in this country means killing as many babies as possible, and taking breaks to force private golf clubs to accept women members.
1 posted on 03/25/2003 10:03:50 AM PST by WaveThatFlag
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To: WaveThatFlag
Being a feminist in this country means killing as many babies as possible, and taking breaks to force private golf clubs to accept women members.

The feminazis have not changed, they have always been intolerant hags with a liberal agenda. One need only look at what wasn't said when the pervert Clintoon was president.

2 posted on 03/25/2003 10:11:32 AM PST by Mister Baredog ((They wanted to kill 50,000 of us on 9/11, we will never forget!))
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To: WaveThatFlag
Author is Christina Hoff Sommers. I don't think she's credited here.
3 posted on 03/25/2003 10:12:09 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: WaveThatFlag
Who is this written by?
4 posted on 03/25/2003 10:12:11 AM PST by wbill
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To: ClearCase_guy
Thanks! Beat me to it....
5 posted on 03/25/2003 10:13:00 AM PST by wbill
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To: WaveThatFlag
This is timely. Today I was debating with someone who felt that liberals are the inclusive ones, with a charter on "open midedness". I replied that it only applies if you happen to have the same viewpoint as them, otherwise you're a bad person. This backs up my point, with feminsists declaring the author is NOT A REAL WOMAN because she disagrees with their politics. I'll use this article as a "smoking gun" when it comes up again. Thanks for posting.
6 posted on 03/25/2003 10:16:03 AM PST by pepsi_junkie
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To: WaveThatFlag
The women's movement has been hijacked by a small group of chronically offended gender feminists who believe that women are from Venus and men are from Hell. Women who value harmony between the sexes and who are concerned about the plight of subjugated women throughout the world will have to find a way to get the movement back.

My X had me convinced this was all MY fault. I'll have to send this to her...heeheehee...

7 posted on 03/25/2003 10:16:31 AM PST by mad puppy (tick tock, lets go to Iraq)
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This backs up my point, with feminsists declaring the author is NOT A REAL WOMAN because she disagrees with their politics

Sort of like how Colin Powell, Condolezza Rice, and Clarence Thomas are not really black, right?

8 posted on 03/25/2003 10:26:32 AM PST by WaveThatFlag
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To: WaveThatFlag
I used those examples already, but my opponent laughed those off as people specifically put out there just to be tokens basically. I feel that alone backed up my argument (he never acknowledged that any of them could possibly be qualified, just that they are puppets of a political strategy by the right to "appear" inclusive). But the difference here is this is just a woman with an opinion who is being shunned, no way to portray that as "legitimate" distrust of a politically motivated appointment.
9 posted on 03/25/2003 10:34:01 AM PST by pepsi_junkie
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To: WaveThatFlag
Ms. Information was a South Park character. That was a great episode.
10 posted on 03/25/2003 10:40:32 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
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To: FairOpinion; ValerieUSA; Coleus; Cincinatus' Wife; Fred Nerks

Blast from the Past.


11 posted on 12/30/2005 10:59:21 AM PST by SunkenCiv ("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
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To: pepsi_junkie
but my opponent laughed those off as people specifically put out there just to be tokens basically. I feel that alone backed up my argument (he never acknowledged that any of them could possibly be qualified, just that they are puppets of a political strategy by the right to "appear" inclusive).

When a person expresses a belief that is not sufficiently developed and detailed that it is insulated from being disproven that belief is a prejudice, not an opinion. Were you to present evidence that would conclusively disprove his belief, he would not recognize it.

12 posted on 12/30/2005 11:11:25 AM PST by papertyger (We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.)
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