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So, this article states that Ivanka Trump is not a supporter of feminsm because she is wearing an overtly girly and pink dress.

I have a big problem with this.

The defintion of feminsim is giving everyone choices, which the article points out. They did not villanize anything she said, or stood for. They are villinizing the fact that she is wearing a pink dress and basically for being pretty. I can't say that I am an Ivanka fan, however I say "you do you, girl."

This summer I think on average I only showered 2 times a week. Usually only if i had to go to work or if it was a special occasion. With that, i only did my makeup and hair 2 times a week. I was pretty grungy and I probably didn't smell funky fresh. I wore sweat pants, shorts, no bra, and a tank top or t shirt- So can I be a feminist? Before the author and the Ivanka Trump scrutinizers answer that they should also know that I don't have any pink dresses, but I have two Kate Spade purses. they each cost over $200 a piece and I use those when I put on high heels and want to be cute and want to be looked at. So does that only make me a part time feminist?

I get where the author is coming from, however i think that it focused too much on appearances and perceptions rather than values and beliefs which is what we need to focus on as a community of feminists if we want to see change.

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Third-wave feminism is suffering a crisis of credibility. On the one hand, interviewers consistently badger actresses and celebrities to declare themselves feminists and lambaste them if they decline to do so.

"When talking about feminism, there are a lot of misconceptions about what the word actually means," writes Teen Vogue 's Brittney McNamara. "At its heart, feminism is about choice. It's the belief that everyone should have the equality that grants them the right to choose how they live their lives."

Except when it's not.

On Sunday, Joan Walsh, the author of What's the Matter with White People, appeared on MSNBC to declare that Ivanka Trump cannot be a feminist because she wore an " incredibly ornamental" and "girlie" dress while representing the United States at a G20 summit meeting.

"That's not a dress that's made for work," said Walsh. "That's not a dress that's made to go out in the world and make a difference. That is a dress that is designed to show off your girlieness, and you know, God bless her, show it off, but don't then tell us you're crusading for an equal place for women at the table, because you're not."

And feminists wonder why fewer than a fifth of Americans consider themselves feminist.

Consider, for a moment, the legal and social reality of women in America. We graduate college in greater numbers than men to pursue careers, and, for the first time in human history, have readily available, affordable contraceptives that give us nearly total control over when or if we choose to have children. Clearly, we like this state of affairs. If feminism were actually about choice, all women would embrace it.

But it's not. Feminism has become a bully pulpit, from which its leaders deride successful women such as Ivanka Trump. Not, you will note, for embracing policies such as paid parental leave that will inevitably undermine the wages and opportunites of some women in the workplace. No, Walsh, with evident contempt, rebukes Ivanka Trump for choosing to wear "a pink dress with big bows on the sleeve." Feminism is about choice. Sure.

Public opinion on matters related to women's rights has never been more encouraging. Almost all Americans (97 percent) support women's working even if a husband can support her, according to 2012 CNN/ORC International poll. Further, most women do wish to work. Most Americans also agree that having women in the work force is good for marriages (75 percent agree), good for society in general (81 percent agree), and good for the children of working women (52 percent agree). Nine out of ten Americans find birth control morally acceptable, A 2016 Gallup poll shows, and the same percentage believes that info about birth control should be widely available. Women have largely transcended the social and legal barriers that used to confine them to lives of a single mold; now they can choose their own paths. In short, second-wave feminism has been a categorical success.

Third-wave? Not so much. By vast majorities, women today are spurning the label of "feminist" - it's become an antagonizing, miserable, culturally Marxian code word for a far-left movement that seeks to confine women into boxes of wokeness.

While second-wave feminism lauded the variety of choices a woman can have in her life, third-wave feminism excludes those who choose the wrong way or who present themselves in a supposedly un-feminist manner. For example, short skirts and bikinis once signified sexual empowerment. Today, "sexy" clothing signifies feminism only if worn by women who are not submitting to the male gaze (that's feminist-speak for "not traditionally feminine").

This rejection of traditional beauty while celebrating "body positivity" has spread far beyond obscure, feminist circles. In London, Mayor Sadiq Khan banned "body shaming" advertisements from public transportation, because "unrealistic" images harm women; depictions of overweight bodies evidently do not and are still permitted to adorn the sides of buses. The ban follows the same dubious logic that conflates Ivanka's pink dress with the patriarchy while lauding Hillary Clinton's pantsuits as the symbol of peak feminism.

Taking Ivanka Trump's "girlie" appearance as proof of her purportedly un-feminist character exemplifies third-wave feminism's compulsive need to control women's appearances. BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Petersen wrote on Election Day:

No amount of advocating for paid maternity leave can mask the fact that Ivanka's understanding of the world is one in which white, thin, straight, traditionally beautiful, nondisabled, bourgeois women will always win - if you consider constantly molding yourself to the status quo and overlooking your second-class citizenship as "winning."

One can make a legitimate argument that Trump's lifestyle brand catered to upper- or middle-class women working in office jobs. But the assumption that Ivanka Trump cannot be a feminist because she is "white, thin, straight," and "traditionally beautiful" demonstrates the paradox at the heart of third-wave feminism: It claims to be for all women while ousting anyone who does not fulfill multiple "intersectional" identities.

Third-wave feminists have made a sick sport of obsessing over Ivanka Trump's appearance - judging her on the basis of her aesthetic conformity to the woke ideal.

Third-wave feminists have made a sick sport of obsessing over Ivanka Trump's appearance - judging her on the basis of her aesthetic conformity to the woke ideal. Another BuzzFeed piece charges Trump with believing that women can "have a seat at the table" only so long as they "dress cute" and "stay thin." ( BuzzFeed can apparently read Trump's mind and give voice to her inner thoughts, speaking for her in the public arena - something feminists used to decry.) Trump is not only denounced as a "white feminist" for failing to endorse Black Lives Matter. Instead this accusation is consistently and specifically tied to her appearance. As Dame Magazine put it in a cheap hit job about Trump and the first lady's trip to the Middle East, Ivanka and Melania are "fake" feminists because of their "good looks, high fashion and displays of western white womanhood."

This sort of bullying, exclusionary feminism is not exactly winning over many young people. Teen Vogue, the newly converted bastion of intersectional, third-wave feminism, draws almost no teen girls. (According to data from comScore, the overwhelming majority of Teen Vogue 's Web traffic comes from visitors 24 years and older. Less than half comes from the 18-to-24 demographic, and virtually no visitors are younger than 18.) Sure, third-wave feminism indoctrinated a generation of bitter Millennial women, but the next generation does not seem too keen to mock any woman who wears a "girlie" dress. Third-wave feminism fundamentally defeats the very meaning of feminism as defined by previous generations, and younger women will continue to reject it wholesale.

As a person working in the White House, Ivanka Trump should be subject to scrutiny for her choices in influencing public policy. But bullying women for wearing a cute dress is not only unwarranted. It's also destroying feminism.

READ MORE:
The True Goal of Feminism: Hedonism and Statism
Feminism's 'Toxic Masculinity' Smear
'Fearless Girl' and Femimism's Ferocity Problem

- Tiana Lowe is an editorial intern at National Review .

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Third-wave feminism is suffering a crisis of credibility. On the one hand, interviewers consistently badger actresses and celebrities to declare themselves feminists and lambaste them if they decline to do so. "When talking about feminism, there are a lot of misconceptions about what the word actually means," writes Teen Vogue 's Brittney McNamara.

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I reluctantly went looking for what the "general" public defined feminism as.

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I reluctantly went looking for what the "general" public defined feminism as.

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Where did I choose to look? Urban dictionary of course! So I think the elephant in the room that always comes up when talking about feminists or feminism in general is the radical and negative connotation that the word seems to carry. Even now that my generation is becoming more cause oriented and socially conscious it still seems as though feminist is a dirty word. I read through most all of these definitions and was not surprised by what I read. People either love the cause or they think its the worst thing ever. The people who thought it was the worst thing ever thought they had the right to tear apart the cause with vulgarity and harassing words. Which, again, is what I expected.

Another thing I noticed though, was that it still seems as though the actual definition of feminism is still not well known. A lot of the definitions said it had to do with furthering only women, whereas we learned in our text that it is about equal rights for all. Which is a huge difference when it comes down to it. Equal rights is something that everyone can get behind.

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The belief that women are and should be treated as potential intellectual equals and social equals to men. These people can be either male or femal...

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BUT here's the big ol' but. But I understand why women don't, and I understand why women and do think that having kids is a "game-over" to having a career and aspirations. Let's take universities for example everyone gives us "ladies" the "there are so many in your shoes here, and we will all try to help you out as much as we can". OK, but we're not allowed to say I need help or I need guidance and I CAN'T make school my number one priority because I can't just not go to work because i'm bettering myself, I can't just write a note to excel electric saying: sorry I had to study for 20 hours this week instead of working so I have no money, I can't tell my toddlers that we're not going to do what they want because mommy is trying desperately to get on the dean's list... Then you go to the financial aid office and ask for help there and there is nothing but hoops. That's the university's way of helping? Mom's aren't college football players, so we don't get any extra resources or help. And quite frankly, no one cares if we graduate or not. They only care if they somewhat stumble upon one of the anomalies and can use us a a "success story" to put in their bulletin. Go bison.

That's just the education aspect of it, there are limitations financially, socially, religiously, emotionally...

But dad is a different story. As long as he doesn't run away nowadays he's given a pat on the back and gold star and get's to go on his merry way to further his career while mom worries about childcare and lunches.

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So I almost went back and posted this with the social construct of gender. The article states that a group of women are carrying guns so now it's feminism? and now it's what all women are/ should be doing? It's just kind of silly. I clicked on the article because I am a gun owner and I have my conceal carry permit so I was interested. I was annoyed when the article just HAD to point out that the women were afraid of the guns at first. To that I say, good. People should be afraid of guns. Men are afraid of guns too. Guns are not toys. Having a penis does not make you not afraid of guns. A penis is not a bulletproof vest. So yes the women were scared, but I bet you don't ask men if they're scared before shooting a gun for the first time.

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Women are now arming themselves. You could call it the new feminism.

In Chicago for example, women are joining gun clubs and learning firearms safety after an uptick in the ongoing epidemic of violence.

As of July, Chicago has had 1,557 shootings and 369 people have been killed.

The "Ladies of Steel" gun club in Chicago meet twice a month. Javondlynn Dunagan, a former parole officer, decided to bear arms after her divorce and established this gun group.

"I noticed that I never saw two women at the range together or a group of ladies," Dunagan said.

She talked to her friends who admitted they were afraid of guns. This encouraged her to start JMD Defense & Investigations. This program is aimed at women, teaching firearms safety and training. The group also teaches how to be a responsible gun owner.

Her clients are primarily African-Americans, who live in the south side of Chicago.

These new feminists are an inspiration to all women including this writer.

Young, old, white, or black, women should empower themselves to carry a gun. It provides a sense of security that, if something goes wrong, you have the ability to protect yourself and your family.

No one should feel unsafe - especially, women. After all, it is your Second Amendment right.

Guns are the great equalizer. Some women prefer to have guard dogs. I prefer to carry a gun. Why? Because regardless of the size or strength of the assailant, if someone tries to attack me I have the means to fully and completely defend myself. I don't fear being alone because I have a gun - and hence, the means - to defend myself.

Contrast this to the Women's March on Washington. These radical feminists are more preoccupied with Trump's vulgar language on a video tape from 12 years ago. For them, women's rights are all about demonizing Trump and banning guns. They are completely out of touch with the real needs of women.

Here in Boston, shootings are on the rise. It's being called a "Bloody Summer."

Boston has had 59 shootings since Memorial Day, seven have been fatal. The streets are no longer safe for anyone but especially women.

Rather than condemning violence, liberal feminists call for gun control. Gun control disarms women who want to protect themselves from someone who intends to do them harm.

It's time that the die-hard feminists stop portraying women as victims. We aren't. We can carry a gun. We can defend ourselves. We can protect our loved ones. Don't get in our way.
Brittany Jennings is Executive Producer of "The Kuhner Report" on WRKO AM-680 in Boston.
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The new feminism: Women who arm themselves

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Women are now arming themselves. You could call it the new feminism. In Chicago for example, women are joining gun clubs and learning firearms safety after an uptick in the ongoing epidemic of violence. As of July, Chicago has had 1,557 shootings and 369 people have been killed.

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Showing that a fish does not NEED a bicycle. Like a women does not NEED a man.

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I take pride in taking care of my parts of the bills whether i;m in a relationship or not. I personally think a man paying all the bills opens the door for the ultimate control of ones life.

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Silver foxes- natural 'salt and pepper' grey beards and hair are socially acceptable for men after a certain age.
Whereas women are expected to stay lifted, tight, wrinkle free and grey-free until she's ready to be seen as "old".

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An interesting way to look at parenting females.