Are there any quotes of feminists from THIS decade?

Question

I for one am so tired of fighting the ghosts of yore.

Most of the evil feminist quotes are from the 70s when anger was raging. Many of the movements from the 60s and 70s were based on anger. Most of the quotes are about rape - a horrible, tortuous event.

So... I'm curious, are there any contemporary quotes?

It just doesn't seem fair that those of us born after the 70s or just a child in the 70s have to comment on quotes from the 70s. Similarly, it's not fair that there are no quotes from the chauvinists. Do you really think they were silent angels?

So - come on guys - what are some current quotes we can deal with ????

Answer 1

They are kids.

Women in their mid-fourties and beyond remember what life used to be like.  Women were very angry, and in an effort to "cure them" of their anger,  they were fed Valium by their male physicians.  The cure lasted from the 1970's through until the mid-80's and it became an epidemic.  Millions of women the world over became addicted.  The kids have no knowledge of history because they're

1. Too young to remember

2. Have no education in the subject matter

So ignore them, for they know not of which they speak.

All that matters is that the people who matter know.

Answer 2

Do these posters think I am going to give up fighting for my equal rights just because of something crazy some woman said that I don't even know??? Or better yet, from a T-shirt that was probably designed by a man.  Cafepress is NOT a feminist site.  I got my Broadway T-shirt for "Wicked" there.

I am NOT what any other woman says.  No amount of BS will make me think that I am not an equal human being.

Answer 3

The reason feminists were so angry in the 60's/ 70's is because there was reason to be. Yes, there is still inequality today but women now have legal avenues, whereas back then it was plain sexism and women were forced to demand equal rights.

I think feminists today concentrate more on finding co-operative ways to approach issues and utilise the legal system in order to bring about change, rather than get angry which doesn't really acheive progress. I also think women today take the feminist movement for granted and don't realise just how lucky we are now to have so much more choice - thanks to those 'crazy' and 'angry' women back then.

I thank them big-time! Every day!

Answer 4

Dworkin is dead-she was a 2nd wave radical feminist. I tried to read her stuff and thought it was awful. Greer was born in 1939 and was also a 2nd wave feminist. I could never read her stuff either-and I was a women's studies minor in the 1970's myself. So far the anti-fems haven't come up with anything more contemporary than t-shirt titles that anyone could have made up? lol

I've read Susan Faludi's book "Backlash" she wrote in 1991 and even that is now 17 years old and Faludi is 49.

Here's a feminist quote that is from the last decade:

"My idea of feminism is self-determination and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to be herself and do whatever she needs to do". Ani DiFranco (born 1970)

Answer 5

"Get me a sammich woman!"

~ Me

Answer 6

"It is worth asking ourselves if this bawdy world of b***s and gams we have resurrected reflects how far we've come, or how far we have left to go." - Ariel Levy

Answer 7

Deflection and excuses..

When feminists are confronted with the sexism and anti-male hatred, all that you will see and hear from them are same old excuses like, "not all feminists are like that" and "those are just the radicals."

All people hear from them are excuses.

Hitler is dead, but does that make Nazism any less evil?

Radicals are being celebrated and praised by mainstream feminist, their works are being taught and mention in academia..

http://www.now.org/history/dworkin.html

Some recent quotes? Look no further..

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/LGB.a...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn...

"God knows how many women already have no use for their men, who are all too often idle and incompetent both as wage-earners and around the house, uninterested in the children and hopeless in bed…" - Germaine Greer  Dec 8, 2001

There's more...  Some example of modern feminists and their actions.  This is from 2005 BTW.

http://www.rense.com/general63/dur.htm

Just to name a few..

Answer 8

The best quotes were from the "ghosts of yore" my personal favorite:  "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."

Answer 9

http://www.cafepress.com/femtees  -- feminist t-shirts.

"Never underestimate the power of a woman with a vat of acid"

"Real men cry. Especially if you torture the b******s"

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Of course, the 90's was Girl/Woman Power and that still carries over to today. (Don't know any other Power that isn't racist/sexist)

"All men are good for is *******, and running over with a truck" said by a feminist professor at the Univ. of Maine in 1995 ---she had the man fired who overheard it and he sued and won(I know... it's not the last decade, but still)

"If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males." --Mary Daly Boston Professor in 2001

"Men's sexuality is mean and violent, and men so powerful that they can 'reach WITHIN women to ****/construct us from the inside out.' Satan-like, men possess women, making their wicked fantasies and desires women's own. A woman who has s*x with a man, therefore, does so against her will, 'even if she does not feel forced.'  ----Judith Levine (she actually has a few of them)

Edit: It's amazing Guns how people can read all of that and still condone this. Don't forget the quote in your last link from 2005 ""Hello, my name is Mary Man-Hating-Is-Fun,"

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Answer 10

Instead of a quote, why don't you actually read a book?  I mean, I know kids these days have short attention spans, but there's a tradeoff for that - if you just go around arguing against quotes, you have a pretty shallow knowledge of the subject you supposedly oppose.

Try reading bell hooks.  She's a contemporary feminist and while she may be angry at times, she's not angry at men but at sexism and ignorance.

Also there's a male feminist (imagine that!) named Jackson Katz who wrote an interesting book called "The Macho Paradox" that you should read.

Answer 11

Germaine Greer off the top of my head is a sexist pig with some gems today. Thats just one as im too lazy and too sick of the feminist sexism to bother go looking in my stash.