Christina Hoff Sommers
Christina Hoff Sommers
Christina Marie Hoff Sommersis an American author, former philosophy professor, and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. Sommers is known for her critique of contemporary feminism. Her work includes the books Who Stole Feminism?and The War Against Boys, and her writing has been featured in a variety of different media outlets, including The New York Times, Time, and The Atlantic. She also hosts a video blog called The Factual Feminist...
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Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands, because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.
Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.
I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.
There are a lot of homely women in women's studies. Preaching these anti-male, anti-sex sermons is a way for them to compensate for various heartaches--they're just mad at the beautiful girls.
We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.