Shailene Woodley is fast-rising movie star, and at age 22, she’s already thrown the country’s most uptight feminists into a tizzy.
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Time magazine asked Woodley: “Do you consider yourself a feminist?” To say she didn’t give the Hollywood answer would be an understatement.
“No, because I love men, and I think the idea of ‘raise women to power, take the men away from the power’ is never going to work out because you need balance.”
Many women continue to reject “feminism” because it evokes an ideological rigidity grounded in the hostility toward men. That, in turn, drives feminists around a bend.This sputtering is a bit amusing. Feminists insist you support their entire agenda or you’re guilty of waging a “war on women.” Apparently a woman who isn’t a feminist is anti-woman.
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Feminists insist they care only for equality between the sexes, but if that were so, why would so many women balk? Because they hate themselves? Or because after 40 years of screaming, it is pretty apparent that activist feminists in academia, the media, and politics will never stop complaining. Forty years from now they will still be waging a war on intolerable “patriarchy.”
It’s becoming faddish again to mentally bra-burn. The Times found twenty-something feminist actresses who are perpetually outraged at people’s failure to bow to feminism.Many people don’t accept the term “feminist” because it sounds like a very serious kind of pagan religion, with its own dogma and doctrinal enforcers. Others find feminists to be boors, pure and simple. Still others see the hypocrisy of it all. If feminists really believed women should be liberated to make their own path, wouldn’t they embrace a debate over feminism? Such is the world of the “tolerant” left.
— Brent Bozell and Tim Graham, May 23 column