You've got to be kidding me. Christina Hoff Sommers?

Hmm, let me see. According to this article, "Contemporary feminism" consists of a "fixation on intimate anatomy combined with left-wing politics and a poisonous antipathy to men."

She claims, but does not cite, that "an exposé in the progressive American Prospect {revealed} that RAWA is a Maoist organization whose fanatical members are so feared by Afghan women that one human rights activist has dubbed them the "Talibabes.""

""Women's liberation" has little to do with liberty. It aims not to free women to pursue their own interests and inclinations, but rather to reeducate them to attitudes often profoundly contrary to their natures." (Note that word "reeducate".)

"Women everywhere need the liberty to be what they are--not, as contemporary feminism insists, liberation from what they are." (Italics hers; bolding mine.)

"Today, more than 70 percent of American women reject the label "feminist," largely because the label has been appropriated by those who reject the very idea of a feminine sphere." NO. If women reject the word "feminist", for many it's because they've been lied to about what feminism is. It's not feminists who coined the phrase "hairy-legged feminist". It was not a feminist who persuaded ChapstickAddict's friend that she couldn't be a feminist because she wasn't a lesbian. It was not feminists who put this cover on TIME magazine.

The entire article boils down to, "In the nineteenth century, there were good sweet-natured ladylike feminists who knew women should be ladies and should vote while still remaining wives and mommies, and bad noisy angry feminists. Unfortunately the evil Communist-inspired bad noisy angry feminists of today have forced us all to forget about the good ladylike feminists. So today all we have are bad noisy angry feminists. We should return to the days of sweet-natured home-keeping ladylike feminism."

I disagree with Hoff Sommers' argument that it is more "natural" for women to behave and engage in traditionally "feminine" roles, or that it is somehow more feminist to engage in "feminine" activities than for women to rightfully claim equal space in the public and political realms. Mind you, I'm not saying there is anything wrong or bad about traditional feminine roles (I was raised by a stay at home mom who also homeschools and is a scout leader), but the implication that I've somehow stolen feminism by working, engaging in politics and civic discourse, and demanding a place of equal power rather than staying home, making dinner, and having babies NOW is, simply put, quite silly. Hoff Sommers is encouraging a regression of women's rights and calling it feminism.

Also, she needs to get over harping on The Vagina Monologues. We get it, CHS, you don't like hearing about the vag. So stop talking about it already.

I don't care how much this woman is inspired by this quote, people have been inspired by terrible things, just because something inspires her it doesn't make it true:

"It is time to leave the question of the role of women in society up to Mother Nature--a difficult lady to fool. You have only to give women the same opportunities as men, and you will soon find out what is or is not in their nature. What is in women's nature to do they will do, and you won't be able to stop them. But you will also find, and so will they, that what is not in their nature, even if they are given every opportunity, they will not do, and you won't be able to make them do it."

The writer assumes that she knows very much about mother nature, and she also assumes that we can have a situation where men and women can grow up in Vacuum so we can tell what is their innate nature. Why don't we leave the "nature" thing to biologists? are you qualified to give me some statistics on women's choices and tell me that's nature? No respected biologist would dare to make such a dangerous and unscientific claim. by the way, "mother nature" was what people thought they were following in the dark ages too,... you know, before the age of REASON,...

As a scientist and as a feminist I'd like to say: BACK OFF!

Our feminist community has problems and we should work to improve it, but this article has nothing to do with that.... this is BS!