Vox

What Does A Feminist Look Like?

Just gonna quote directly from the email TCHOTP sent me:

"Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because *she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way,* because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy."
Peggy Noonan at WSJ

I have always felt that feminism should be about empowering women, not about making them victims, or, possibly worse, making them men. Unfortunately, modern feminism does far more of the latter two, than of the first.

(In general, "diversity training" is more about making people aware of their status as victim or victimizer than about teaching tolerance and getting along. The end result is intolerance and insincerity.)