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Gro Haarlem Brundtland

It did, in Scandinavia. When I first became prime minister 15 years ago, it was a cultural shock to many Norwegians. Today, four- year-olds ask their mommies: “but can a man be prime minister?” -Fourth World Conference on Women

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Christina Hoff Sommers

That is the corrosive paradox of gender feminism’s misandrist stance: no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men.

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And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her…

feminism, politics

DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good and slavery is bad.BIAS: predeliction for a particular dogma. For example, the feminist bias is that women are equal to men and the male chauvinist bias is that women are inferior. The unbiased view is that the truth lies somewhere in between.(an early comment on backlash, from “Glossary for the Eighties”)

feminism, politics

Talk about a group that is REALLY suffering, it’s women in America. To be a woman in America is just to live under this sword of wage inequality. Ask her in 20 years from now, “Patricia Arquette, you had the chance to talk to millions of people in over 100 countries. What did you decide to talk about? With women being traded as sex slaves in the tens of thousands under Islamic rule, in Africa and the middle East, and WHAT did you decide to talk about?” Wage inequality in America. You’re a moral fool.If in fact women really got 77 cents to the dollar, why would any employer hire men? If I can get the exact same work and save almost 25%, you would have to be an idiot to hire a man! It’s all nonsense. It’s all a lie.

feminism, politics

Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself.

feminism, politics

I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like – well – young women. {…}I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.

feminism, politics

Talk about a group that is REALLY suffering, it’s women in America. To be a woman in America is just to live under this sword of wage inequality. Ask her in 20 years from now, “Patricia Arquette, you had the chance to talk to millions of people in over 100 countries. What did you decide to talk about? With women being traded as sex slaves in the tens of thousands under Islamic rule, in Africa and the middle East, and WHAT did you decide to talk about?” Wage inequality in America. You’re a moral fool.If in fact women really got 77 cents to the dollar, why would any employer hire men? If I can get the exact same work and save almost 25%, you would have to be an idiot to hire a man! It’s all nonsense. It’s all a lie.

feminism, politics

Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself.

feminism, politics

I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like – well – young women. {…}I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.

feminism, politics