Feminists I Support

I don't support that modern feminism that posits women as victims.  I support the feminism of strength and intelligence and independence and truth.

Too many lefties don't like it, though, when women leave the plantation, but at least one university president has stood up to the mob of crybullies:

Camille Paglia is an outspoken critic of modern feminism and some of the far-left trends that have taken hold on many college campuses of late so it’s probably not surprising that she would eventually become the target of student activists caught up in those same trends. A group of students at University of the Arts, where Paglia has been on the faculty since the 1980s, launched a protest aimed at getting her fired or, if that wasn’t possible, de-platforming her...

As a result of these and other statements [made by Paglia], the petition demands that Paglia be fired and replaced by “a queer person of color.” If that’s found to be impossible because of her tenure, the activists want someone else hired to teach Paglia’s classes so students aren’t exposed to any dangerous opinions. In addition, the petition demands Paglia stop being given platforms to speak and sell books on campus. In short, Paglia must be silenced as much as possible.

In response to these demands, the school’s president, David Yager wrote a letter defending the right to free speech. 

Wouldn't want to be exposed to any different ideas, would we?  You can't think here, this is a university!

I attended West Point.  We read The Communist Manifesto there, in a required philosophy class.

Paglia, and Christina Hoff Sommers, are feminists I admire:

Sommers also spoke about her multiple experiences of being shouted down and protested at other schools, criticizing the culture of shouting down speakers students find disagreeable.

“When you heckle and shout down speakers, you prevent other students from listening,” Sommers said. “I think that shouting down a speaker that other students want to hear is sort of like going up to somebody who’s reading a book and grabbing it from their hand and going, ‘You can’t read that.’”

“How can a movement that’s associated with liberation have gone in the direction of hyper-protection and trigger warnings and censorship?” Sommers later added.

Another topic Sommers addressed was social activism.

“Men and women are best served by the truth,” she said, adding later that repeatedly reinforcing the idea that women are oppressed sends the wrong message to young women. “Smart activism requires a grasp of reality.”

Sommers also took issue with the controversial statistic that one in five women will be sexually assaulted during their time on a college campus, claiming that the number is actually closer to one in 40 or one in 50.

It's not a controversial statistic, it's an obvious falsehood, but let's continue.  Here's what I mean about strength and truth:

Sommers responded to the assertion about activism by saying she understands how the narrative that women are oppressed can be motivating, but also argued that feminism has become too extreme and too divisive in pushing these narratives.

“Even though it excites a group of people, there is a group of people who are being turned away,” Sommers said.

Lies and whining have a way of doing that.