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Originally Posted by Xantar
You keep talking about Gloria Steinem as if she has any relevance to the world today. She doesn't. Most feminists today respect her accomplishments but think that it's time to move on from her (and we should hope so since her most active period was the 70s). There's a very sizable contingent of female intellectuals, some self-identified as feminists and some not, who are perfectly comfortable with the idea that a woman can be a stay at home mom with her feminist credentials intact. I would go so far as to say these are the vast majority of feminist writers (or gender theorists or whatever else you want to call them) today.
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Why do you assume I am not aware of other forms of feminism? My comments in this thread are specifically aimed at the Gloria Steinem form, hence my constant reference to her.
As for her relevance, her impact s definitely still felt today, and you can know this just by playing word association with the term "feminism". There is still a lot of pressure put on women to this day to pursue traditionally male roles regardless of what these women actually want from life. That is not feminism, that is female masculinity, and that is rooted in Steinem philosophy.
This is all I've ever stated in this thread, and I never made any global statements about feminism as a whole.