Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.
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Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant.
I think a lot of divisions of perspective and experience that happen within feminism are very natural. Any movement that represents the interests of 51 percent of the population is covering such divergent experiences, perspectives, and priorities that, if you're doing it right, people are going to be arguing within it.
This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.
I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.
Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.
Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.
Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.
There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be.
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