Naomi Wolf
Naomi WolfAbortion is an issue that must be approached with understanding. A pro-choice message not built on a moral framework that admits that the death of a fetus is a real death, puts the position at risk of becoming precisely what its critics say it is: Callous, selfish and casually destructive, representative of a cheapened view of human life.
Fascism is when the state uses violence against the individual to oppose democratic society.
The Goddess is a gendered sense of self that is shining, without damage, without anxiety or fear. The vagina literally activates this matrix of chemicals that, to the female brain, feel like the Goddess.
The Goddess is the idea that the vagina and brain are connect in specific, semi-spiritual ways.
Motherhood is not biological alone but also a casually acknowledged and little honored heroism that drives women to find the will and grit and creativity to put one’s own impulses aside to serve the needs of a tiny creature around the clock.
Pain is real only when one gets other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but oneself, one's pain is condemned to madness or hysteria.
Power feminism is a demand that women assert themselves politically in order to achieve their goals.
Pro-choice is a subject that ought to be approached with a moral framework that admits that the death of a fetus is a real death. By not doing this, the position risks becoming precisely what its critics say it is: Callous, selfish and casually destructive, representative of a cheapened view of human life.
Third-wave feminism is more inclined to use media and consumer practices for power. It rides on the back of neoliberalism and utilizes the tools of market logic.
Third-wave feminism is more willing to use power, like to use the media or to use the electoral process or to use consumer practices for a good outcome whereas 2nd wave feminism was more puritanical.
Third-wave feminism is much more pluralistic about sexuality and personal expression and fashion choices, more alert to issues of class and race, and much less dogmatic.
