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Has feminism gone too far?

Critics of feminism suggest that the movement that once gave birth to positive changes such as emancipation has since soured. The goal of equal rights has allegedly now become simply a desire to dominate men, often under the guise of victimhood. Many feminists vehemently deny such allegations, often citing evidence of the continued suppression of women, such as inequality in wages.

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Christina Hoff Sommers Philosophy Professor, Feminist Author

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The orthodox feminists are so carried away with victimology, with a rhetoric of male-bashing that it's full of female chauvinists, if you will. Also, women are quite eager to censor, to silence. And what concerns me most as a philosopher is it's become very anti-intellectual, and I think it poses a serious risk to young women in the universities. Women's studies classes are increasingly a kind of initiation into the most radical wing, the most intolerant wing, of the feminist movement.

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I will now present to you a vision of hell as dreamed up in the minds of the man-hating women who litter internet toilets like Feministing... This is what the world would look like if feminists had their way. Man Tax, Thought Crimes, Ban on Porn, Ban on Sexbot Research, Ban on Foreign Brides, Mandatory Castration for Crimes Against Women, Rape = Death Penalty, Better Pay, Legalized Polygamy, Ban on DNA Paternity Testing, Sexual Harassment Laws Expanded.

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Anders Breivik Terrorist

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It's correct, as feminists claim, that a hyper-feminine society is not as destructive as a hyper-masculine society. The catch with a too soft society is that it is unsustainable. It'll get squashed as soon as it is confronted by more traditional, aggressive ones. Instead of having it all, Western women risk losing everything. What are liberal feminists going to do when faced with aggressive gang of Muslim youngsters? Burn their bras and throw the pocket edition of the Vagina Monologues at them?

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Conservapedia Christian Encyclopedia

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Modern feminists... never wanted gender equality; they want power for the female left

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Gloria Steinem Author, Feminist

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[Regarding post-feminism...] It's like saying, 'We're living in a post-democracy.' It's ridiculous. We've hardly begun. The good news is that American feminism used to be three crazy women in New York: now a third of the country self-identify as feminists, and 60% if you go by the dictionary definition.

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Jessica Valenti Feminist Activist

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I think the idea that feminism is dead is dangerous because it leads women and men to believe that (1) they don't have to do anything; the work has been done, and that everything is okay now; and (2) it leaves them kind of alone, I think, in a struggle, and that's something I've seen a lot when I go to colleges and I speak to young women. They know that something is off; they know that the world [is] a sexist place... ...because feminism isn't widely accepted...

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Amanda Marcotte Blogger, Author, Feminist

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Men’s rights activists—a loose coalition mostly comprised of men embittered that they’re not getting as much tail as they believe they’re due and men embittered after having their wives up and leave against their wishes—irritate feminist bloggers for many reasons, from blaming feminists for problems they clearly brought on themselves, to the Russian bride weirdness, to their dogged trolling and grudge-holding of feminists that criticize them.

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0 Points TheLobsterMan 21 Dec 2011 Stance on Question: Disagree

Modern feminists (even radical ones) correctly identify many of today's problems, such as gender roles and violence against women, but they turn to anti-individualist and coercive remedies.

0 Points Benja 26 Jul 2011 General Comment

This video of a Chinese policewoman shooting a man holding a young girl hostage with a knife to her throat reminds me why I like feminism.

0 Points k 27 May 2011 Stance on Question: Agree

At this point in time, the quote "If equality is your goal you aren't ambitious enough" has become more and more common. Feminists will say that the root of all evil is patriarchy. When non feminists describe an evil force, composing a minority of the worlds population, is trying to degrade and oppress them, and that the force includes "traitors to the cause," and that that force doesn't understand the true evil it is doing and so their comments can be ignored, and that force is making their life harder despite evidence to the contrary, and cases where that force clearly doesn't exist are simply ignored, we would call them conspiracy nuts. But they can also be called feminists.

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