An article we read this semester, Girls Gone Anti-Feminist highlights the disconnect between feminism in the 70s to feminism by millennials today. One interesting thing I found in this article was the way the author compared Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin to the Spice Girls and Lady Gaga as representing feminism. Normally, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin are not mentioned in the same sentence as the Spice Girls and Lady Gaga as they are in completely different professions and have different fan basses and followers. However, all of them embody the idea that a woman can be anything she wants to be from a singer to President of the United States. The way the author compares these women points out the differences in the broad ways feminism can be represented.
Another interesting thing I found in this article is the different stages of feminism the author describes; I counted three in total. The author first talks about feminism as it was during the Spice Girls age; all about “Girl Power”. She then goes on to talk about embedded feminism: “the way in which women’s achievements, or their desire for achievement, are simply part of today’s cultural landscape. And lastly mentions what she calls
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One of the things I have learned in this class is to avoid broad generalizations when making your case; something this article does not do. The author is quick to paint all women with one brush. When talking about the demise of feminism, the author states “Now that women allegedly have the same sexual freedom as men, they actually prefer to be sex objects because it’s liberating”. This may be true for some women, but it certainly is not the case for all women. Based on what I have seen and heard of from the women in my life, I would say the women who prefer to be sex objects now are in the minority. The author lost some credibility by making this broad and inaccurate