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For a women's century: repost

From k/o, November, 5th, 2005 : In the worst ways, mass media offered, and continue to offer, a vision of feminism to the public that suggested it was a movement for equal rights that would make women be like men. The fact that the feminist movement was equally critical of male identity formation within patriarchy was rarely given attention in the media. Clearly, the aspect of reformist feminism most people could understand was the insistence on equal pay for equal work. Coupled with that was the stereotype of women become pseudo-men. In the final analysis, mass media and the mass public have shown a willingness to embrace women acting like patriarchal men while they eschew feminist attempts to transform male and female roles. -bell hooks, rebel's dilemma 1998 I'm a man and I'm a feminist. There's nothing remarkable about that, it's how I was raised. I was raised by a strong, brilliant and caring woman, who is still very much "my mom." And I was raised by