Can anyone provide quotations to demonstrate that Christina Hoff-Sommers is not feminist?

Hoff Sommers is not a feminist, she is fighting for equal rights, opportunities and responsibilities between the sexes and feminists are fighting that women should have more rights then men, more opportunities then men and less responsibilities then men - hence Hoff Sommers is not a feminist.

It depends on exactly what definition of "feminism" is being used. It even depends on what is meant by "equality". Equality of opportunity? Equality of outcome? Something else? If you don't pin these things down, the discussion will just be a waste of time.

It's entirely possible I'd say the dictionary-wielding poster is obviously right with the important qualification that it's only ACCORDING TO THE DEFINITIONS HE/SHE IS USING. Whether I'd accept those definitions outside of the discussion is an entirely different matter.

But the burden of proof is ALWAYS on the person making the claim. Therefore it's the poster who must prove the claim, NOT YOU.

she used to be a feminist in the 70's when the movement was justifiable

but in the end of the 80's she saw that feminism took a dark route

so she became a non feminist

I admit to no longer understanding a lot approximately her, yet a rapid cursory Google seek style of have been given me familiarized together with her, and that i think of i might probable like her artwork, notwithstanding if i did no longer believe all of it. I even tend to desire people who're debatable interior their very own strikes- they often have the main provocative and honest issues to assert.

quoting from book reviews on amazon...

"Amazon.com Review

The author of the provocative bestseller Who Stole Feminism? returns with an equally eye-opening follow-up. "It's a bad time to be a boy in America," writes Christina Hoff Sommers. Boys are less likely than girls to go to college or do their homework. They're more likely to cheat on tests, wind up in detention, or drop out of school. Yet it's "the myth of the fragile girl," according to Sommers, that has received the lion's share of attention recently, in hot-selling books like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia. When boys are discussed at all, it's in the context of how to modify their antisocial behavior--i.e., how to make them more like girls.

This book tells the story of how it has become fashionable to attribute pathology to millions of healthy male children. It is a story of how we are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. No one denies that boys' aggressive tendencies must be checked and channeled in constructive ways. Boys need discipline, respect, and moral guidance. Boys need love and tolerant understanding. They do not need to be pathologized.

Sommers eviscerates feminist scholarship by Harvard's Carol Gilligan, the American Association of University Women, and others. Hers is feisty, muscular prose and fans of Who Stole Feminism? will delight in it. "There have always been societies that favored boys over girls," she writes. "Ours may be the first to deliberately throw the gender switch. If we continue on our present course, boys will, indeed, be tomorrow's second sex." That rhetoric may err on the side of alarmism, but Sommers' ideas are full of common sense. She essentially urges parents and educators to let boys be boys, even though their "very masculinity turns out to be politically incorrect." The War on Boys is sure to set off a fiery controversy, just as Sommers' previous book did--but it should also find a big audience of readers who become fans. --John J. Miller

From Publishers Weekly

Sommers (Who Stole Feminism?) pulls no punches in this critique of the current crop of "crisis" studies about boys. Methodically analyzing and dismantling what she calls the "myth of shortchanged girls" as well as the "new and equally corrosive fiction that boys as a group are disturbed"Atheories she calls "speculative psychology"Ashe bolsters her findings with extensive footnotes and data from such sources as the U.S. Department of Education. Sommers's conclusions are compelling and deserve an unbiased hearing, particularly since they are at odds with conventional wisdom that paints girls as victimized and boys as emotionally repressed. "Routinely regarded as protosexists, potential harassers and perpetuators of gender inequity, boys live under a cloud of censure," she writes, going on to show how they are also falling behind academically in an educational system that currently devotes more attention to the needs of girls. Pointing out that "Mother Nature is not a feminist," she also dismisses the current vogue to "feminize" boys, calling social androgyny a "well-intentioned but ill-conceived reform." Instead, Sommers champions "the reality that boys and girls are different, that each sex has its distinctive strengths and graces." Sure to kick up dust in the highly charged gender debates, Sommers's book is at its best when coolly debunking theories she contends are based on distorted research and skewed data, but descends into pettiness when she indulges in mudslinging at her opponents. Perhaps the most informed study yet in this area, this engrossing book sheds light on a controversial subject. It deserves close reading by parents, educators and anyone interested in raising healthy, successful children of both sexes.

Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. "

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feminism can mean literally anything these days

what does that b*tch have that I dont?