I'm coming to this late, but better late than never. My thoughts on Strimpel's rant are: Good. Now you know what it feels like to be alienated and shut out. Which is what women like me felt about the movement that she feels nostalgic for. Strimpel's feminist movement was every bit as dogmatic, monolithic and exclusionary. It excluded--an…
I'm coming to this late, but better late than never. My thoughts on Strimpel's rant are: Good. Now you know what it feels like to be alienated and shut out. Which is what women like me felt about the movement that she feels nostalgic for. Strimpel's feminist movement was every bit as dogmatic, monolithic and exclusionary. It excluded--and disparaged--conservative women, women of religious faith, pro-life women and anyone else who departed from its orthodoxy on issues like abortion. Her movement "hijacked" feminism first. And now they're getting a taste of their own medicine. The original first-wave feminists, the suffragettes, were not of one mind on these issues.
Strimpel's feminism held that my mother, who raised me as a single working mother, who stressed to me the importance of education and self-sufficiency and never being financially dependent on a man, could not be in their club because she was pro-life.
Neither she nor anyone else gets to tell me that my mother was not a true feminist.
I'm coming to this late, but better late than never. My thoughts on Strimpel's rant are: Good. Now you know what it feels like to be alienated and shut out. Which is what women like me felt about the movement that she feels nostalgic for. Strimpel's feminist movement was every bit as dogmatic, monolithic and exclusionary. It excluded--and disparaged--conservative women, women of religious faith, pro-life women and anyone else who departed from its orthodoxy on issues like abortion. Her movement "hijacked" feminism first. And now they're getting a taste of their own medicine. The original first-wave feminists, the suffragettes, were not of one mind on these issues.
Strimpel's feminism held that my mother, who raised me as a single working mother, who stressed to me the importance of education and self-sufficiency and never being financially dependent on a man, could not be in their club because she was pro-life.
Neither she nor anyone else gets to tell me that my mother was not a true feminist.