I want to talk to you about a new feminism
for the 21st century. There are three pillars to this new feminism:
Dignity. The word "no." And men.
That's right, men. But before I expound on these three ideas,
you need to know something about me. I was very involved in the feminist movement, including
being on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women. For this I feel much
pride and some guilt. Pride because feminism has pushed forward some very important and
needed changes; and guilt because it also has done a lot of damage. My work now is to
reverse that damage. In that spirit, let's talk about the first
pillar of this new feminism: dignity. Dignity is at the core of what feminism should
always be about. Dignity means that a woman should be able to freely choose her own path
in life. That's what feminism once held. But does it still? Ask almost any female college
student today what she aspires to be and she'll list any number of career choices. The one
she won't list is wife and mother. In fact any time someone has the temerity to suggest
that a woman might want to look for a husband while in college, as a very successful Princeton
grad recently did in a letter to the school's newspaper, feminists go nuts.
A new feminism will value and respect all responsible choices.
And while we're talking about dignity, I can't think of anything less dignified for women
than the feminist belief that in the sexual arena, women are like, and therefore ought
to act like, men. Is this what the truly liberated woman wants? To have casual sex and think
nothing of it like men do? That's what feminism aspires to? Sad to say the answer has too
often been yes. So, let's add this up: Feminism has downplayed the desire for women to have
a family while at the same time hyping the rewards of career and casual sex.
Not exactly a recipe for success or happiness. The second pillar of a new feminism is the
word "no." It's very much tied in with the first pillar.
Throughout history women made great use of the word "no." Of course many times women
said "yes" when they should have said no, and that's the basis of more than a few classic
stories and novels. But this was the exception, not the rule. There is great power in that
word "no." And women, for the most part, knew how to wield that power. But in the last few
decades they've lost it. And the consequences have been catastrophic.
Women, who fought not to be treated as sex objects, have become more objectified than
ever. You see it everywhere: in music videos, on billboards, in the hookup culture on campuses. And now we have
the tawdry spectacle of teenage girls sexually pursuing teenage boys the way boys pursued
girls. How did this happen? Because feminism began to advocate that women should behave
like men. Whatever men did and however they did it, that's what women should do. Feminists
were angry at men - but they wanted to be like them at the same time. No wonder our
society is so confused. Women are robbing themselves of the ability
to say no; the solution is to take that power back. This is especially true for young women.
Saying "no" means, I will not be defined by anyone else - not by feminists, and not by
men's sexual desires. That's female power. This is a good segue to my third pillar of
a new feminism - men. It is easy for feminists to forget this, but it was men who gave up
their monopoly on political power and gave women the right to vote, men who invented
birth control, the refrigerator, the washing machine, and so many other devices that liberated
women. And men are different from women. Academics
like to speculate that men and women are basically the same, that they're only socialized differently,
but as George Orwell famously noted: that's an idea that only an intellectual would be
foolish enough to believe. Moreover, the sexes need each other. For example, women civilize
men. It's what we are supposed to do. But in order to accomplish this critical task,
We must preserve our dignity, Not be afraid to use the word no,
And, see men as partners, not as competitors, let alone oppressors.
That's the way to a new feminism. And the way to a better world for both sexes. I'm Tammy Bruce for Prager University.
“Go to a college campus and ask a woman what she’d like to be. They all have their careers in mind but no one will say they want to be a mother and wife!”
And when you go to the law department almost all women there want to be lawyers! It’s almost as if women are in college for a reason.
This lady said women are being objectified more than ever and then use teenage girls sexually pursuing teenage boys as evidence. But how does that relate to them being objectified if it's them who wants this and initiates it? How does this make sense? Can someone help me?
Oh boy, you gotta love how she suggests that women would become less objectified if they just said no, what a NiceGuytm argument, “if women didn’t act like whores they wouldn’t get treated like whores” and how she suggests anything other than the classical women’s lifestyle is bad and on the wrong path of feminism, Jesus Prager strikes again!
Message of the video: Women should be able to do what they want, unless they want to act like men, whatever that means.
I dont think she likes men very much At least she doesnt have many nice things to say about them