As a Jew, I'm pretty disgraced that this idiot thinks he can speak for the rest of my religion.

Sometimes I look back on undergrad and how everyone assumed anyone who was a [blank] major was already an expert in [blank] like, half a semester into freshman year. lolol

Yeah, that's more or less the gist. Add a bunch of "patriarchy AND CAPITALISM" to it, but yeah.

While that may be true, she's not exactly a large part of our cultural zeitgeist. This is like getting up someone's ass for not knowing who the lead singer of The Velvet Underground is.

Yeah, but her views ARE outdated at times. Did you see the reaction to her comments about celibacy? That kind of thing doesn't speak to the younger generation of feminists. Doesn't mean she's not still a genius.

Thanks, because pretension is totally not a problem in the feminist community!

No, you're right about how this is contrary to her views. hooks also wrote in "Feminism is for Everybody" that the primary threat to the advancement of feminism is the act of women discrediting or "silencing" other women due to infighting and disagreement over the "purpose" or "agency" of feminism. The segment of the…

I love bell hooks with the energy of a thousand burning suns, but no one can be perfect. It's okay to critique our heroes sometimes. *sigh*

I agree. When people use inflammatory language like that, my initial reaction is to "shut down,"... sensationalism for the sake of reaching a larger group of people is risky and almost always ends up alienating people rather than educating them.

That wasn't rude. I'm not really interested at all in the academic side of feminism, and this whole "Beyonce is a terrorist" mess is a pretty good reason why.

I think it's easy to say that bell hooks is older, what do you expect from a second-waver - but the thing is, she's never fallen very easily into those categories. Her writings started towards the end of the second wave, but in many ways paved the way for so much of what made the third wave, the third wave. She's…

I'm one of the people who disagreed with her use of the word terrorist but I'm over it at this point (although I think we should talk about her problematic comparison to Dylan Farrows abuse. I'm sure that was hyperbole and sensationalism too but a line had to be drawn). I have a few questions: where do we draw the…

Actually, sexual slavery and trafficking in the world is more prevalent in areas where girls are easy to snatch or manipulate, more particularly in war torn areas such as Syria or corrupt governments such as North Korea. While race and colonialism has a little to do with it, I think the major problem here is an utter…

No, sweetie. You're so irrational you immediately start screaming about race instead of slowing down and actually reading the words in front of you. Such intellectual weakness is actually sad to witness. Race irrelevant here.

Please be careful with the term "real" mother. This is incredibly devaluing to the woman who has raised this boy, and all four of them face something none of us can even begin to comprehend. Ideally, she'll find an appropriate place in his life, and I admire her so much for not pressing for a reunion right away. But…

First off, I feel I should say I feel for these girls and their families. I wish there was something more I could do. That being said, don't we have our own missing girls and boys to look for and worry about? Right in my backyard of Oakland a little black girl is missing her father just committed suicide where's her…

He is THEIR CHILD by all means. She is his biological mother. They are his adoptive parents. She did not have custody of him before her kidnapping. I feel deep sympathy for her but your views are just misguided. The professionals clearly deemed what was best for the child.

It's considered gender-biased to call it maternity-leave in Sweden - it's parental leave.

He has parents who are deciding what is best. They know him and love him and have decided that it isn't in HIS best interest to know who she is right now. It isn't about what is best for Michelle, much as we all hurt for her loss.

I believe that there are certain qualities that may be worthy of rape.