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To: Ilaine who wrote (47075)	5/26/2004 10:54:42 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793927

I think we are up to about 8 genders now. "Gender feminism"? How does that differ from plain vanilla feminism?

To: Ilaine who wrote (47075)	5/26/2004 2:18:41 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793927

"Gender feminism"? How does that differ from plain vanilla feminism? I just happen to have stashed the answer to your question. This is from an interview of Christina Hoff Sommers. <<MR. WATTENBERG: Is this the distinction between equity feminism and gender feminism? Is that what we're talking about? MS. SOMMERS: That's right. Yes. MR. WATTENBERG: Could you sort of explain that so that we get our terms right? MS. SOMMERS: An equity feminist -- and Camille and I both are equity feminists --is you want for women what you want for everyone: fair treatment, no discrimination. A gender feminist, on the other hand, is someone like the current leaders in the feminist movement: Patricia Ireland and Gloria Steinem and Susan Faludi and Eleanor Smeal. They believe that women are trapped in what they call a sex-gender system, a patriarchal hegemony; that contemporary American women are in the thrall to men, to male culture. And it's so silly. It has no basis in American reality. No women have ever had more opportunities, more freedom, and more equality than contemporary American women. And at that moment the movement becomes more bitter and more angry. Why are they so angry? >>