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…Feminism Some claim that feminism has changed since Beauvoir, Freidan, and Steinem’s heyday—and they’re right. Now feminism boasts a third and fourth wave. But neither of these variations have deviated…

…modern feminism is sexy—or that any politician who espouses feminism is sexy—is not only patently false, but also absurd, and misses the whole point of feminism altogether. Feminism as sex…

…Argument 4. Yenor picks up the story of feminism in the 1950s with second-wave feminism, but feminism reflects something much deeper and older than that. It is a by-product of…

…proof that feminism has largely succeeded. By refusing to claim its success, feminism forfeits its legitimacy. Without legitimacy, feminism can maintain its hold on women only through manipulation, like threatening…

…damage her core argument. Harrington’s book ravages feminism while hoisting its banner aloft. She advocates for feminism — just not the dominant strain, which she agrees fuels “bio-libertarian” human alienation…

…her “Girls” persona to win the approval of Angry Internet Feminism that has come to occupy the Nakatomi Plaza that is her world. In response, Angry Internet Feminism shot her…

…common sense. If Anderson, who made her living touting her sexuality and capitalizing on everything feminism initially promised, thinks feminism is a “bore,” the movement really is on a downward…

…Feminism…” with this inaccuracy. This is lovely sentiment, but actions speak louder than words. In practice—and practice is what the refusers pick up on—contemporary feminism neither is nor was about…

…gender presents some practical challenges for feminism. As previously stated, doing away with women as a group would mean that feminism has no one to act on behalf of, as…

…to convince.” The problem is that it’s feminism that’s actually getting thrown under the bus by activists like Sarsour and movements like the Women’s March. Modern Feminism Is an Abomination…

…Let Go of Guilt Feminists frequently remind us that we should feel guilty for not being grateful for all that feminism has done for us. Like Mommy-dearest, feminism nags us…

…are plenty of other examples of feminists and the media treating conservatives and liberals hypocritically, but feminism on the whole has never been about true equality. Feminism as a movement…

…absorbed Naomi Wolf’s “The Beauty Myth” in high school—that definition of feminism also kind of echoes the one from Merriam-Webster: Feminism, the staid dictionary states, is “the theory of the…

…they perceive as feminism’s tendency to villainize men, the far more troubling fault of the modern hybrid of feminism and sexual liberation is that it encourages women to villainize themselves….

…over the term “liberal.” While Marxism needs feminism to destabilize society, feminism doesn’t need Marxism. One might object about feminist association with abortion. But pro-life feminists exist. They are currently…

…Feminism culminated in the 1920s. There was the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, the first woman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1922, and the liberated flapper…

…among feminism’s officer class of media influencers. Femininity: the Enemy of Feminism In an interview for Socrates in the City, the great Alice von Hildebrand, commenting on feminism’s endorsement of…

…behavior is no longer welcome. They had conveniently, although perhaps subconsciously, used feminism as a shield. But it was feminism that allowed them to engage in such behavior in the…

…like feminism, or don’t you? Rebecca Vipond Brink raised similar questions in challenging Time’s “anti-feminist” writers, by which she means famous critics of mainstream feminism such as Christina Hoff Sommers,…

…Not Savior”—mistakenly directs disappointment towards Merkel when the fault really lies in feminism. Bennhold details how Merkel has not succeeded in promoting women into the workplace. While 70 percent of…

…and Casey, the right needs a radically different kind of feminism and a set of policies to match it. It would have to be a kind of feminism that does…

…fact, one of the main objections conservative women had about second wave feminism concerned too much focus on the self. Dig down into all of our objections to feminism, and…

…grievance, it would have been a logical thing for second-wave feminism to ally itself—as first-wave feminism had done—with those forces of prudery that had always worked to trammel or civilize…

“Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. There’s no room for dissent.” — Camille Paglia The Women’s March on Washington scheduled this Saturday at our nation’s capitol is a…

…as “western” feminism when it comes to women’s rights. There is only feminism. If we don’t debate and criticize others and ourselves, in a respectful manner, we will never be…

…the most destabilizing fault line in the Western world is the one that feminism has opened between men and women. It is set to widen even further if Reset proponents…

…interview portion of the competition. McCullough was asked about health care and feminism. She gave coherent, thoughtful answers—as much as the very short format allows—but she deviated from liberal talking…

…liberation are actually oppressive because they divide women from children, femininity, and their own bodies. Don’t Toss All Feminism’s Benefits in Reaffirming Women As a practicing Catholic, I am very…

“The wife obeys Christ when she obeys her husband” says Elise Crapuchettes in her book titled “Popes and Feminists: How the Reformation Frees Women from Feminism” (emphasis added). Such a…

Inez Feltscher-Stepman responds to questions from Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky about Lana Del Rey’s “profound” but controversial critique of contemporary feminism, posted to Instagram on Thursday. Feltscher-Stepman connected Del Rey’s…

…feminism.” For millennials, being told they must restrict themselves to the codes of old feminism, instead of following their hearts, is problematic. The resentments are starting to build on both…

…issue with everything the singer did. Alas, many of the critiques have revealed more about feminism than they did about the pop star. It’s not enough for someone like Swift…

…Feminism,” Elise Crapuchettes argues that medieval Catholic theology and modern feminist ideology both validate women largely in terms of their production. While the Catholic church located women’s value in their…

Modern feminism encourages women to complain about men, the wage gap, and just about everything else as an attempt to somehow be taken seriously. In other words, modern feminism creates…

…they’re not. Why? The rub here is obvious: They’re conservative. Feminism Is Just a Fake to Manipulate Political Loyalty First-wave feminism, originally rooted in equality and accomplishments over sex or…

Modern feminism—more appropriately referred to as outrage or victimhood feminism—has been facing an identity crisis for some time. Polls routinely show people, including women, support equality between the sexes but…