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Rebecca Walker on ?Why Feminists Stink and I Hate Them?

By Ann Bartow

Okay, that isn’t the exact title, but it might just as well be. Among many other things, I wonder what she means by “this generation.” I’m younger than Barack Obama and only five years older than Walker herself, but still no doubt too old for her “young people” preferences and should probably just die now, or something. And when she writes: “Perhaps a Feminism that has not responded to the needs of its constituents needs to die,” I wonder how and why it is that calling oneself a feminist burdens one with “constituents” whose “needs” she is supposed to “respond to.” What exactly is it she thinks Feminism owes her, and why?

–Ann Bartow

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on March 23, 2008 (boomark / email).